Visa-free visa will not work like before: Europe is changing the rules for Ukrainians

From 2021, the European Union is launching the European System of Authorization and Travel Information ETIAS, in which citizens of countries that have a visa-free regime with the countries of the European Union will need to register & mdash; including Ukrainian, British and Canadians. The EU took this step because of the threat of terrorist attacks and the influx of illegal migrants.

In order to legally in the & rsquo; to travel to the European Union, a maximum of four days before departure, you will need to fill out an online questionnaire, the verification of which in 95 percent of cases will take place within a few minutes & mdash; if you do not have unpaid parking tickets, do not have a criminal record, have not violated EU rules and have not visited areas of armed conflict. In another 4 percent of the cases, the questionnaires are considered by clerks in the central European body & mdash; this will take a few hours at the most. The permit obtained will be valid for three years.
In the questionnaire, you must specify personal data, information about the travel document, the country of the first in the & rsquo; entry into the EU, home address and contact information, as well as answer the question about the state of health & rsquo; I have previous travels to Europe, visa denials, deportations, offenses, stays in countries with a high risk of terrorism and those where an epidemic of exotic diseases has been declared, prosecutions over the past ten years. And the need to provide certificates from the place of work, bank statements and other paper certificates in the questionnaire will not be.

It is worth noting that this procedure will be paid and will cost 7 euros. True & mdash; for children under 18 and seniors over 70, it will be free. The questionnaire is not necessarily & rsquo; must be completed in person.

Recall,   that last year Ukraine  introduced new standards for photographing identity documents confirming citizenship or special status.