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The EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) began phased rollout on 12 October 2025 and will be fully deployed by April 2026; it records non‑EU travellers’ fingerprints, facial images, passport data and entry/exit dates and retains most records for three years.
A clear, centralized inventory of which Schengen countries have published public lists of border crossing points already activated for the (EES) is not available in the reporting provided; however, na...
No country in the available reporting is documented to accept a consumer digital ID wallet in place of a passport for international border entry in 2026; instead the clearest near-term change is an EU...
Transit passengers who remain in international or sterile transit zones and do not enter the are generally treated differently from travellers who cross an external Schengen border: are required when ...
Border crossing points enroll travellers into the Entry/Exit System (EES) by capturing biometric and travel-document data at frontline hardware—facial-image cameras and fingerprint scanners—plus docum...
No — the has not “stopped visas for America” in the sense of imposing routine visas on citizens; short-term visa-free travel to the remains in place for now, but the EU is introducing a mandatory elec...
Border control is in transition: an expanding set of hubs and blocs now require or default to biometric capture at entry (notably the EU’s Entry/Exit System and airport rollouts in Singapore and Dubai...