"Don't Panic!" Travel Correspondent Simon Calder Explains £7 Euro-Visa

[@Twiggy163]

Are they not going to mention the fact that this system was pushed by the UK, when the UK was still a member of the EU? No?

[@mdf2mdf287]

ALLEGEDLY........it's just the EUSSR ans Stazi Starmer piling on more inconveniences so that people will say "oh well, let's go back into the EU to save me 7 Euros and an hour of my time for my once a year holiday".....and the trouble is that most of the sheeple will fall for it.

[@DaveCampervan]

Wrong - the UK (as a member of the EU) agreed to this before 2016.

[@mdf2mdf287]

@@DaveCampervan Could you point me in the direction of your sources please.

[@antonioguerreiro1615]

if I had it my way I would make you all require full visas with full vetting like Nigeria and the Central African Republic

[@DaveCampervan]

@@mdf2mdf287 This was discussed at the EU even before the Brexit vote - remember the UK did not leave the EU until 2020

[@Sandra-r1l]

​@@antonioguerreiro1615 Yo te apoyaría

[@topcat4643]

Thailand for example has a ETIAS system when arriving at BKK airport since end of covid…finger prints and photo. Whole process only takes max 30 secs at each immigration officer’s desk….no drama 😮

[@DaveCampervan]

You forgot the part about queuing to get to the immigration desk!

[@Batters56]

If you don’t like this scheme you can always holiday in the land of the free. The USA where you will need to pay $21 for an ESTA.

[@oliverreedslovechild]

Where you still have get fingerprinted!

[@TB-vm9yr]

Brexiters voted for this then blame the EU. The cheek

[@newsocial1658]

There is special place in hell for people who voted yes

[@B_Ruphe]

I think the guest had not finished telling us the basics, when the loud persoon on the left interrupted him (with questions which he would not doubt have come to in any case, but in a logical sequence).

[@mr007ma-tn9cv]

Farage and UK MEPs voted for this when we were still in Europe.

[@Pange3]

I don’t have a problem with the fee. What I have a problem with is them having my fingerprints on their database and having to give private information about my medical details which is usually only privy to medical professionals. It is s total invasion of privacy. Also if their database gets hacked someone else has my finger prints etc!

[@reinholdmueller4882]

How dare the EU control its external borders and check on third-country citizens entering and leaving the EU.

[@maztasl3365]

Don't go to the EU then

[@Legendary4me]

No one is forcing you to travel to Europe. Absolutely no one.

[@oliverreedslovechild]

@@reinholdmueller4882 That's what passports are for. The rest is all about control. I you can't see or understand that then you are a part of the problem.

[@DaveCampervan]

You need to holiday in Clacton I would suggest

[@beckinfidelis3916]

1:47 He skirted the details. IMMIGRATION officials? Only one in ten "travelers" arriving in the EU? Americans never even needed a visa to visit Europe. Just who is he referring to for fingerprinting? Tourists and families, businessmen, migrants?

[@cafsixtieslover]

How does it work on cruises? Will you have to queue up at the ports for ages?

[@outlaw6421]

Simple i will not go to a eu country there plenty of other places to go without getting water thrown over you..

[@tillyt4054]

And you need a visa for all of them 😂😂😂

[@marksykes1191]

Yeah but remember to pick your teddies up from around your pram Cupid stunt !

[@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321]

your affordable flights will connect via an EU interchange. My private jet to the grenadines will not, LOL

[@Legendary4me]

Good riddance 😂 kindly take some pals from Benidorm with you pls.

[@DaveCampervan]

CLACTON it is for you from now on

[@leeprice386]

all of this was not needed for until now what changed ? people will walk straight into there own prison with a smile on there face .

[@WO2Royalengineersretired]

Beware the chip in the back of your neck ? Just like your pet ? ?? How they’d love it ?

[@Johnbgoode-s7c]

Malta Times says nobody will be allowed in if they don't have this document after beginning of April!

[@derekmab7734]

Brexit benefit for Brexiters to enjoy

[@groovydonkey]

Having read about this a while ago, I am seriously considering not going to the places I use to visit in Europe, as delays at most airports can be quite bad and this will make it even worse, especially if you have a connecting flight.

[@chris-non-voter]

In 2026 you'll need to give a blood sample

[@MrGieltedze]

1 in 3 man in the UK have a criminal record. Their request fore the Euro- Visa might be denied....

[@jackiegould1569]

My finger prints dont work. We had a fingerprint sign in system at work and I used to have to go and report to the office to show I was there. I have trouble with my touch screen phone too. Dont know why

[@wynbrown5985]

Same here. I think my fingerprints have worn out.

[@Wobbler619]

I am the same you probably have 'grafters hands' like me 🙂

[@democracy9102]

MODERN SLAVERY

[@beckinfidelis3916]

Are they gonna do it to the "migrants" too? Or does it violate their human rights. Actually, I feel like this IS a human rights violation. Forcibly fingerprinting tourists?

[@tonyt7948]

I'd rather spend my money elsewhere

[@TB-vm9yr]

I’m spending all mine in Europe. 👍🍺

[@JohnBennett-r7j]

Go to Europe via rubber dingy free of charge.

[@GeirRssaak]

Yes, and seek asylum!

[@rastafari6336]

This happens almost everywhere in the world. Poor Brits complaining about nothing. That's what happens when you leave your closet trading and traveling partner😅

[@RockLee51190]

Brexiters rarely leave the country cuz they love it so much stop complaining gits 😂

[@sionrichards3260]

Are we charging folks coming to the UK anything for a visa? They charge seven lets charge them ten.

[@At_the_races]

There are another 168 other countries in the world that you can travel to, ignore the Eu.

[@M.S-p6z]

To which visas are more expensive lol.

[@nobreshit.9694]

And you need a visa to visit and can't work in any other country now... brexshit is a gift that keeps on giving.

[@DaveCampervan]

You do know that most require a more expensive visa waiver right?

[@steve81nz39]

@@nobreshit.9694 you do realise that you can still work in the EU

[@100Mickl]

But surely Brits can just get in a dinghy and get all the benefits

[@tennysonfordblackbird2087]

We already pay a hefty tax in Greece and this year it was 49 euros 😢😮

[@stevenculley3330]

Well I hope the Brexitiers are happy.

[@IanSmith465]

I would like to complain about this but even with the extra 7 euros it is still half the cost to travel overseas than holiday in the uk. That said if Europe dont want our money i will quite happily take it elsewhere!

[@DaveCampervan]

Where - you know that the same system is place for most other countries, albeit ore expensive!

[@salahthefruad9174]

Well done Mr Fiqi. We wiil defend our Land against Ethopiyan warmonger Abiye Ahmed. Our sea is our resource.

[@outlaw6421]

Keep ya visa eu..off to somewhere else then

[@nobreshit.9694]

You'll need a visa too. The uk passport issued to subjects of his unelected majesty are now worth as much as a Brazilian passport, oh no wait. The Brazilians can work and live for free in all South America, and you can't live and work visa free anywhere else now.

[@DaveCampervan]

You need a visa waiver for USA, Oz, NZ, Dubai, Maldives, Saudi Arabia.... where are you thinking of going..... CLACTON?

[@nobreshit.9694]

@DaveCampervan another brexshit lie benefit. But the farage lovers are still refusing to see they were lied to. It's so sad. Racism leads to poverty

[@c4wrc]

Sooner we back in eu the better never believe what u read on side of a bus😂

[@samsails9820]

Its a new simpler system being introduced... oh but lets have a moan.

[@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321]

No queues at the airport. Just get the fingerprints done in advance at your regional police HQ. only took them 20 years to get the ball rolling on global bio-ID, LOL

[@DaveCampervan]

Absolute bullshit

[@nobreshit.9694]

Brexshit is a gift that keeps on giving..

[@ZM00716]

Who cares no panic

[@VoiceSriLanka]

Thank you Nigel Farage 😂😂😂 This is what you have been fighting £6 a visit and imagine his illiterate patriots filling online form 😂😂😂😂

[@chrisspencer6502]

Oh Brexit benefits

[@Jonathan-h1w9j]

Yes - better giving up sovereignty then paying an extra 7 quid.

[@briantitchener4829]

We should charge visitors to the U.K. similarly.

[@DaveCampervan]

@@briantitchener4829 But you are NOT! Entry to the UK is free and there are zero checks as you lost access to EU schengen control system

[@briantitchener4829]

@@DaveCampervan Brexit was about exactly that; free from EU Control, but we didn't get it because it was deliberately sabotaged and continues to be.

[@hey12542]

​@@briantitchener4829The UK ETA is going live soon for more countries. EU citizens will have to get the UK ETA to enter from April 2025 from what I've read. It will cost them £10.00 and be valid for 2 years and be attached to their passports if authorisation to enter is granted. Ignore the person who commented above, clearly misinformed.

[@geordiemark7901]

well as long as the uk does the same with european nations as well as the europeans already living here, lets have there finger prints and get them to pay the 7 quid, if they dont like it then off you go home

[@DaveCampervan]

Bitter much?

[@ENGBriseB]

We should do the same.

[@DaveCampervan]

But you are NOT!

[@Twiggy163]

​@@DaveCampervan technically they already did. The ETIAS system is something the UK pushed for when it was a member of the EU.

[@DaveCampervan]

@@Twiggy163 but my point still stands. The U.K. has no plans for a visa waiver for EU citizens visiting the U.K.

[@Twiggy163]

@@DaveCampervan are the Brits not working on ETA?

[@DaveCampervan]

@@Twiggy163 yes but like all Brexit border checks there is no published plan to implement it.