Everything You Need To Know About ETIAS, The EU Check Following EES

It's set to roll out later this year.

If you’ve flown to a Schengen country as a non-EU citizen recently, you might have been confronted with long lines and even cancelled flights.

That’s because the new Entry/Exit System (EES) rules have become fully operational, and require all eligible passengers who haven’t done so yet to provide new data like fingerprints.

While the pass stays valid for three years, signing multiple passengers up to the system for the first time all at once has led to chaos in some airports.

But this was step one of enabling another EU security system called the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), set to start operations in the final quarter of 2026.

It’s a visa waiver system that’s linked to people’s passports. The BBC reported that it will build on the EES; The Independent explained that it depends on the EES being fully operational.

“Starting from the last quarter of 2026, some 1.4 billion people from 59 visa-exempt countries and territories are required to have a travel authorisation to enter 30 European countries for a short stay,” ETIAS’ site reads.

It’s a permit that some........

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