UK nationals may need to buy visas to enter the EU after Brexit, if that is what the European Commission proposes next month.
The visa regime, to be discussed at a commission meeting on 13 November, could see UK adults forced to pay €60 each, fill in a three-page form, and wait up to six weeks before they get permission to enter the EU's so-called 'Schengen' travel area.
That is what would happen if the EU took the first option in its deliberation on whether to "place the United Kingdom on either the 'visa required' list of third countries or the 'visa free' list", due to be adopted by the end of the year, according to a new commission "work programme" that was published on Tuesday (23 October).
The decision - part of the EU's "Brexit preparedness" planning - is to be shaped by progress on an overarching Brexit deal on the UK's withdrawal and on future relations.
That deal must be agreed by mid-November if EU states and the UK are to ratify it in time for Britain's departure in March.
The visa wall is more likely to slam down if there is no deal.
Read more: EU raises spectre of post-Brexit UK visa regime
The visa regime, to be discussed at a commission meeting on 13 November, could see UK adults forced to pay €60 each, fill in a three-page form, and wait up to six weeks before they get permission to enter the EU's so-called 'Schengen' travel area.
That is what would happen if the EU took the first option in its deliberation on whether to "place the United Kingdom on either the 'visa required' list of third countries or the 'visa free' list", due to be adopted by the end of the year, according to a new commission "work programme" that was published on Tuesday (23 October).
The decision - part of the EU's "Brexit preparedness" planning - is to be shaped by progress on an overarching Brexit deal on the UK's withdrawal and on future relations.
That deal must be agreed by mid-November if EU states and the UK are to ratify it in time for Britain's departure in March.
The visa wall is more likely to slam down if there is no deal.
Read more: EU raises spectre of post-Brexit UK visa regime
