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Four-hour nationwide air-traffic-control strike to disrupt Italian flights on 10 April
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (266+ words) Visa HQ Barely 48 hours after fuel rationing began, Italy's aviation sector is bracing for another headache: a four-hour national strike by air-traffic-control provider ENAV and technology subsidiary Techno Sky The walk-out, called by a coalition of unions including UILTrasporti, FAST-Confsal…...
ETIAS advance-travel authorisation formally published'Spanish tourism sector on notice
2+ hour, 38+ min ago (198+ words) Visa HQ Spain's Official State Gazette has confirmed that the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) is now part of national law, triggering an 18-month implementation window that ends in Q4 2026 ETIAS will apply to nationals of around 60 visa-exempt countries'including…...
Balearic airports create "Brits-only" lanes as EES launch nears
10+ hour, 4+ min ago (223+ words) Visa HQ With less than two days to go before the European Entry/Exit System goes live, Spain's busiest holiday gateway for UK visitors'Palma de Mallorca'has confirmed that it will cordon off dedicated "non-Schengen British" lanes to prevent the new…...
Valencia cuts lone immigration-lawyer post days before Spain's mass regularisation opens
2+ hour, 38+ min ago (149+ words) Visa HQ Just as Spain's extraordinary regularisation programme for an estimated half-million undocumented residents is due to open applications, Valencia's city council has abolished the only permanent immigration-lawyer position at its municipal Migrant Assistance Centre (CAI) Opposition councillors warn that…...
Spain joins coalition granting visa-overstay waivers to travellers stranded by Middle-East air-space closures
2+ hour, 38+ min ago (184+ words) Visa HQ In response to the rapidly evolving West-Asia crisis and the blanket closure of Iranian and Iraqi airspace, Spain has aligned with a growing list of countries'including Switzerland, Germany, France, the UK and Turkey'in issuing temporary overstay tolerances and…...
Spain braces for full rollout of EU Entry/Exit System on 10 April
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (349+ words) Visa HQ Spain's border control authorities have entered the final 48-hour countdown to the European Union's new Entry/Exit System (EES), which will replace the familiar passport-stamping routine with a fully biometric, digital register of every third-country national who crosses…...
Countdown to 10 April: What Austria-Bound Travellers Need to Know About the EU Entry/Exit System
10+ hour, 4+ min ago (277+ words) Visa HQ With just two days to go, the European Union's long-awaited Entry/Exit System (EES) will become fully operational on 10 April 2026, replacing passport stamping with biometric registration at all external Schengen borders'including every Austrian international airport and the Brenner…...
EU's Biometric Entry/Exit System Fully Activates 10 April'What Indian Travellers Should Expect
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (182+ words) Visa HQ Europe's long-awaited Entry/Exit System (EES) reaches full switchover on 10 April, replacing passport stamps with a live biometric register across 29 Schengen countries How it works: First entry after 10 April will require fingerprint and facial capture at a self-service…...
Easter Monday easy Jet strike in France ripples into Czech corporate itineraries
23+ hour, 31+ min ago (216+ words) visahq. com Cabin-crew union UNAC carried out a 24-hour strike at easy Jet's six French bases on Easter Monday (6 April) Although the low-cost carrier said it expected "limited cancellations, real-time trackers showed short-haul rotations to and from Paris, Lyon and…...
Le seuil de revenu pour le visa nomade digital passe " 2 849 " apr's la revalorisation du SMIC en Espagne en 2026
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (103+ words) Comme le visa pour nomades num'riques est index' " 200 % du salaire minimum en Espagne, l'augmentation du SMI en f'vrier porte le seuil de revenu requis pour 2026 " 2 849 " par mois pour les candidats seuls, et davantage pour les familles. Les consulats appliquent d'j…...