Visas: EU Countries — Written Question

Question

Mike Martin

Liberal Democrat — Tunbridge Wells

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of agreeing with (a) the European Union and (b) individual Schengen Area countries to allow British citizens to stay up to 180 days without a vis

Answer

Seema Malhotra

The European Union is responsible for visa policy in relation to short stays in the territory of Schengen states, including visa requirements. Short stays are stays of no more than 90 days within any 180-day period, as set out in EU legislation. The UK an...

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