11+ hour, 7+ min ago  (331+ words) Visa HQ Spain has formally published the long-awaited Royal Decree that activates an extraordinary regularisation (regularizaci'n extraordinaria) programme for foreign nationals who have been living in the country without papers The measure, approved by the Council of Ministers on 14 April…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (353+ words) Switzerland's three international airports were hit by queues of up to three hours on 1314 April as the EU's new biometric Entry/Exit System moved from pilot to full operation. Airlines and airports are urging Brussels to allow emergency suspensions of…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (369+ words) Spain has published a Royal Decree that grants a one-year residence-and-work permit to undocumented migrants who arrived before 1 January 2026 and have lived in the country for at least five months. Up to half a million people are expected to apply…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (228+ words) Visa HQ Just three days after the EU's biometric Entry/Exit System (EES) went fully live, Spain's biggest gateways'Madrid-Barajas and Barcelona-El Prat'are grappling with immigration queues of up to two hours for non-EU arrivals Travel and Tour World reports widespread…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (249+ words) Visa HQ Just days before Spain opens the largest mass-regularisation in its history, the Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) union has announced an indefinite strike of immigration-office staff starting 20 April'the very day applications begin Only five provincial Extranjer'a offices are formally tasked…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (249+ words) Visa HQ Roughly 100 passengers missed an Easy Jet Milan-Linate to Manchester flight on 12 April after spending up to three hours stuck at passport control, the first major Italian incident linked to the EU's new biometric Entry/Exit System (EES) The…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (268+ words) Visa HQ Travel site Greek City Times chronicled scenes of "chaos" on 13 April, noting that some aircraft pushed back with dozens of missing passengers Vienna-Schwechat, Austria's primary international gateway, confirmed to local media that several morning departures left with unoccupied…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (303+ words) Visa HQ Italy's rail network braced for significant disruption on Saturday as two separate 24-hour strikes by infrastructure-maintenance staff at Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) began at 00: 01 on 11 April 2026 According to mobility portal Virgilio Motori, the walk-outs'one organised by the National…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (287+ words) Visa HQ Fresh analysis by travel site The Traveler. org shows that more than 1, 600 flights were delayed and 40 cancelled across Europe on 9 April alone, with the rolling disruption continuing into the morning of 10 April Though London and Amsterdam topped the…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (389+ words) From 10 April 2026 Austria fully replaced passport stamps with the EU Entry/Exit System, collecting fingerprints and facial images from all non-EU short-stay visitors at external borders. The change gives employers and travellers a digital record of days spent in Schengen,…...