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Visa facilitation for the Western Balkans

Monday, 28 January 2008

The agreements on visa facilitation and readmission between the European Community and Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia enter into force on 1 January 2008. Visa facilitation will make travelling to the EU easier for citizens of Western Balkan countries, thus rendering the European perspective more tangible. It is also a first step towards the establishment of a visa-free regime. All travellers to the EU will benefit from lower visa fee rates. Visa fee rates will remain for all at the level of 35 ~Ac?¬, when fees were recently increased for most countries in the world to 60 ~Ac?¬, and certain categories such as students and pensioners will be exempted from visa fees. The processing of visa applications will be accelerated. For certain categories of persons, e.g. businessmen, students and journalists, the requirements on documents supporting a visa application will be simplified. Certain categories of frequent travellers will be granted multi-entry visas with long periods of validity. Finally, holders of diplomatic passports will be exempted from the visa obligation. It should be noted that these agreements do not apply for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ireland, The Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway. New rules on facilitation of issuance of visasa

 

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