Visitors arriving in any of the Schengen area’s 29 countries will have their faces and fingerprints scanned under the new entry/exit system
The European Union is preparing to dispense with passport stamps in favour of a new digital border management system.
Australians and citizens of other non-EU countries travelling to Europe from Sunday 12 October may encounter the new biometric entry/exit system (EES) and, while it might create delays at the start, it should eventually offer a streamlined process.
Here’s what travellers need to know.
Non-European citizens travelling to the Schengen area – 29 countries, including 25 in the EU, plus Switzerland, Norway, Lichtenstein and Iceland – will soon enter using the new system.
