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The EU is launching a similar scheme that costs €20 to apply for: https://travel-europe.europa.eu/en/etias https://travel-europe.europa.eu/en/etias
by arrowsmith 7mo ago
The EU is launching a similar scheme that costs €20 to apply for: https://travel-europe.europa.eu/en/etias https://travel-europe.europa.eu/en/etias
- mytailorisrich 7mo agoWhich was all started by the US' ESTA back in 2009, which I believe now costs $40.
- swarnie 7mo agoHave you filled one out lately? The questions have got a bit wild.
- jjgreen 7mo ago> UK customs shits in you shoes?? WTF! >> EU customs also shits in your shoes
- arrowsmith 7mo agooh no, basic border security!
- michh 7mo agoyeah, but I got the impression that the EU is very much doing it as a retaliation to the US and UK doing it. Tho they could have limited it to just those countries.
- red_admiral 7mo agoThe US, maybe. But wiki suggests ETIAS (the EU one) was proposed in 2016 whereas the UK ETA idea was created around 2023, so ETIAS can't be a reaction to ETA - perhaps the other way round? I'm not sure if, without Brexit, the UK would have ended up with ETIAS anyway - it's a "mostly Schengen but not exactly" thing so it would have depended on what agreement they came to.
- michh 7mo agoYou're right, I misremembered the order in which I learned about these things as the order in which they were announced. (lol, I sound like an LLM apologizing for getting something wrong but I promise I'm human :) )
- mFixman 7mo agoMy impression was that the EU did it to prevent people doing visa-free layovers from claiming asylum, while the UK did it to negotiate a dual exception with the EU in the future. ETA is a visa to the entire world in all but name. I'm not looking forward to the future where every county implements is and visa-free travel becomes a thing of the past.