EES launches on Sunday, Oct. 12 and will be gradually rolled out across the external borders of 29 European countries by April 10, 2026.
If you’re a visitor heading to Europe for a short stay, you’ll need to sign up for the EES, a new automated IT system. A “short stay” refers to a visit to Europe lasting up to 90 days within 180 days. Registering for the EES is mandatory, regardless of whether or not you require a visa to travel to Europe.
Any traveller who crosses the external borders of any of the 29 European countries listed below will be required to register.
Check how long it will take for our biometric data (faces) to be hacked and stolen by evildoers.
It bugs me that they’d be taking biometrics like fingerprints for this. Pretty invasive if I just want to visit family or see ruins.
Don’t go. We don’t have a right to go to other countries. If we don’t like their rules it’s simple don’t go.
As a dual Canadian-EU citizen, I say bollocks.
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Sure, maybe I won’t.
If Canada did this to casual foreign visitors I’d also be pissed.
I want to remember being fingerprinted at a Canadian airport the one time I had a layover there in 2018.
This is all pretty common these days.
If that’s true, I’m pissed, as promised.
Looking like I should get that Irish passport I’m entitled to by rights of descent since most of the rest of the world is just going batshit bonkers.
Before Ireland catches up to the insanity, anyway.
Why is it limited to short stays? Seems reasonable that any foreign national entering the borders should be required to sign up? Otherwise, what good is it?
I think stays longer than 90 days already require a different visa, in which case you would have already registered and been screened before that visa was issued.
