Immigration: EU Nationals

(asked on 8th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's White Paper on The UK’s future skills-based immigration system, Cm 9722, how the proposed future introduction of Electronic Travel Authorisation for EU nationals set out in that White Paper will operate within local journeys in the Common Travel Area and local journeys over the Irish land border.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 13th March 2019

The Government intends to introduce a requirement for visitors and transit passengers who do not need a visa to come to the UK to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). The requirement will not apply to Irish nationals,

The detail of our ETA scheme is currently under development and requires primary legislation before it can be introduced.

The UK does not operate routine immigration controls on local journeys from within the Common Travel Area and the ETA scheme will be developed to operate in a way which is consistent with those arrangements.

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