{"id":884722,"date":"2026-04-10T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/884722\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:38:15","slug":"a-more-secure-efficient-and-convenient-way-of-travelling-for-non-eu-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/884722\/","title":{"rendered":"A more secure, efficient and convenient way of travelling for non-EU nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, the EU\u2019s <strong>new border management system is officially fully operational<\/strong> at all external border crossing points of the EU, except for Cyprus and Ireland. The Entry\/Exit System is an automated IT system for registering non-EU nationals travelling for short stays \u2013 up to 90 days in 180-day period. It replaces the old way of manually stamping passports.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new system, when a non-EU national arrives at a border crossing point in the Schengen Area for the first time, the following information is registered in the system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>passport details<\/li>\n<li>biometric data<\/li>\n<li>entry and exit records<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For each subsequent entry and exit, only a quick verification will be needed, making the process faster.<\/p>\n<p>The new system modernises border controls in the EU by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>speeding up border checks, so travellers spend less time waiting<\/li>\n<li>helping border control staff work more efficiently <\/li>\n<li>improving security, by giving border and law enforcement authorities access to important traveller information<\/li>\n<li>helping prevent irregular migration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This new digital border system has been progressively rolled out across the EU since October 2025 and is fully operational as of 10 April 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travel-europe.europa.eu\/en\/ees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Entry\/Exit System<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/news-and-media\/news\/how-new-digital-borders-system-works-2025-10-13_en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How the new digital borders system works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Starting today, the EU\u2019s new border management system is officially fully operational at all external border crossing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[16251,2000,299,5187,1699,183],"class_list":["post-884722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-border-control","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-travel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116380690744180888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}