{"id":451,"date":"2016-04-12T23:53:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2016-04-12T23:53:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:53:32","slug":"us-and-canada-may-lose-eu-visa-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/us-and-canada-may-lose-eu-visa-right\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Canada may lose EU visa right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European\u00a0Commission <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_IP-16-1345_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\">published warning<\/a> on 12APR that visa-free travel by US and Canadian citizens to Europe is at risk, due to the lack of a full reciprocal arrangement for EU citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The core of the issue is this:\u00a0Although US and Canadian passport holders can travel to Europe for stays of up to 90 days without requiring a visa, citizens of some EU countries are not eligible for the same privilege in return. Specifically, citizens of\u00a0Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania require a visa for the US, and citizens of Bulgaria and Romania require one for Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for US and Canada to include those citizens in their own visa-waiver programs expired yesterday, on 12APR2016. Consequently, the EU is obliged, under their own policy document, to take steps to remove the visa-free travel privilege for US and Canadian Citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom and Ireland do not take part in the development of the common visa policy and would not be bound by a visa waiver suspension.<\/p>\n<p>No change has yet occurred, and any decision to limit travel would\u00a0have a lead time (most likely 90 days). For further background see the full <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_IP-16-1345_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EU press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European\u00a0Commission published warning on 12APR that visa-free travel by US and Canadian citizens to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[110,332,68,333,334],"class_list":{"0":"post-451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-special-report","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-us","11":"tag-visa","12":"tag-waiver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}