European visa charge
Before I say anything else, this is NOT meant to be a political comment in any shape or form.
I see today that there is a suggestion that if we Brits do eventually leave the EU, there would be a £10 charge for a pre-vetted visa for us to visit Europe. The underlying principle being that this would cover the cost of security checking. OK ???
I don't feel that of itself, this would put my wife and I off continuing to visit France and Spain, but I would be very interested to hear what other members think. Will you stop visiting Europe if we leave the EU? Would the cost of the visa put you off?
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What would the cost be for europeans to visit Britain? Would they need a different one for England and Scotland? Would they be charged more than Americans - assuming in two years they will be allowed out at all?
And whatever happens, how long before it was changed? If you can answer all these accurately, would you mind putting on a bet for me?
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Why would there be a Visa requirement? I don't recall one before the open borders policy. By the time they sort all this out I may be too old to go abroad!!!
David
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Like tourist tax just add it on and blame on brexit everycountry des profits for your money
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There was no visa requirement in general before the UK joined the EU. Why should there be one in the future? Besides, one doesn't need a visa for Switzerland, for example, and they aren't in the EU.
Write your comments here...No but they are also signed up to the free movement of people and other parts of EU law without actually belonging and are also part of the Schengen area I think.
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I blinked a couple of years ago when tourist visas to India were £92 per person , though they have come down since then.
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I think you have to take with a very large pinch of salt what you read in the press unless some evidence is offered to support the claims which is usually pretty thin on the ground in the popular press!!! Travel between countries is always a two way thing
so its unlikely the UK would accept restrictions on their own citizens whilst allowing people from other European countries to travel without the same restrictions. It seems to me that it is in everyones interest to reach an agreement which whilst taking into
account issues of security allows easy movement between countries. Governments will see the sense in that when push comes to shove.David
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I can't see how such a scheme would be workable. For a start, would it apply to all who enter the Schengen area or would it apply to all who enter the EU? If it were to apply only to EU countries, I can't see how the fee would be collected at border crossings
between countries which are Schengen members, but not in the EU. There are currently no facilities in place where this could be done.0 -
I can`t see the French Tourist industry being overly enthusiastic about anything that would decrease numbers even more than they have been already!
Are they decreased? I havent seen much evidence of it and this june I had never seen so many folk about in places we know well.
...Figures of people using Eurostar to mainland europe are down but up coming to the uk,and travel within mainland europe are down to countries affected by recent terrorist activity
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At the risk of straying into political issues, visa/tariff impositions can escalate to the detriment of all parties. Anyone who thinks that Brexit won't affect these issues is living in cloud cuckoo land but we, or at least I, realised that when we voted. However, a £10 fee in the overall cost of a holiday is neither here nor there.
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Are they decreased? I havent seen much evidence of it and this june I had never seen so many folk about in places we know well.
Apparently numbers of people travelling to France from the UK have reduced by 1.5million in the last 2 years
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