The State Department recommends that US citizens avoid international travel due to the global spread of the COVID-19 disease, Travel.State.Gov reported. Many parts of the world are currently experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks and measures are being taken, including quarantines and border crossing restrictions, which could reduce the movement of travelers. ...
Passports full of multi-colored stamps and visas could soon be replaced with irises. Travel and Leisure writes about it. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), 45% of passengers are willing to give up their paper passports and use biometric identification instead. ...
Which travel document opens more doors around the world than any other? This is a Japanese passport. The Henley Passport Index, which periodically ranks the world's most travel-friendly passports, has released its first report in the new decade, CNN writes. In the new ...
How and why states that sell their visas and passports hold sales. Greece According to Kommersant, last week it became known that Greece is joining the club of states that trade their citizenship. For an industry that has been criticized by anti-corruption activists for the past year...
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has simplified the procedure for obtaining Ukrainian citizenship for residents of Russia who are subject to political persecution. Writes about this BBC. Such actions were a response to the issuance of Russian passports to residents of Donbass. Zelensky signed a decree on simplifying the acquisition of Ukrainian citizenship by foreigners, ...
The U.S. Department of State will now require foreign nationals who participate in the Diversity Visa, also known as the Green Card Lottery, to have valid passports. In a document published in the Federal Register on Wednesday June 5, the Department of State writes that the main applicant must ...
On May 17, the ambassadors of the European Union discussed the issues of issuing Russian passports to citizens of Ukraine, writes Current Time. “They instructed the European Commission to study the possibility of banning entry into the EU for citizens with these passports,” said RFE/RL correspondent in Brussels Rikard Jozwiak. It's about...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that orders the issuance of Russian citizenship to residents of Donbass according to a simplified procedure and within three months from the date of application, writes Current Time. The decree is posted on the Kremlin website; Russian authorities have repeatedly announced it and explained it as “protection of rights and...
The US passport took the third place in the annual Passport Index ranking, which ranks official documents of the states of the world according to the principle of visa-free access for their citizens to other countries. The first place in the list was taken by the passport of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), its citizens do not need visas to visit 167 countries ...
Russian diplomats will make a consular trip to San Francisco between November and December, according to the website of the Russian Embassy in the United States. “In connection with incoming requests from citizens living on the west coast of the United States, we inform you that in the period from November 26 to December 1...