Moldova has celebrated its eighth anniversary of visa-free journey to the European Union on Thursday, April 28.
The European Exterior Motion Service (EEAS), which serves as a diplomatic service and a mixed international and defence ministry of the EU, has revealed that within the final eight years, greater than 2.4 million residents of Moldova travellers 9 million occasions to the EU, SchengenVisaInfo.com studies.
“Over 2.4 million residents of the Republic of Moldova travelled 9 million occasions to the European Union within the eight years for the reason that visa liberalisation,” the assertion of EEAS reads.
The visa-free journey settlement that was reached between the Moldovan and the EU authorities supplied the residents of Moldova the chance to journey simpler and easier in addition to to get nearer to the EU and the values shared by the Member States.
Commenting on the occasion, the EU Ambassador in Moldova, Jānis Mažeiks, mentioned throughout an interview that visa-free journey has been giving the chance to residents of Moldova to go to their household, kin and examine or go to new locations with out having to bear visa acquiring procedures.
“When you begin travelling to Europe, when you see how issues are achieved there, how issues are organised, that’s, I feel, how individuals get nearer to the European household. And naturally, it’s additionally about assembly the Europeans and typically establishing households, as a result of that’s additionally how individuals can get nearer to one another,” the assertion of Mažeiks reads.
Moldova will not be a European Union Member State, however its residents can enter any member nation of the Schengen Space with out being required to acquire a Schengen visa first.
Nonetheless, a particular requirement applies to nationals of Moldova. Solely holders of biometric passports can journey underneath the visa-free regime.
Aside from Moldova, residents of a number of different international locations may journey to the EU with out having to acquire a Schengen visa.
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Beforehand, the EU Commission announced that they plan on digitalising the procedures for applying for a Schengen visa. Such a transfer has been warmly welcomed by travellers from international locations underneath the Schengen visa regime.
The Fee proposes that every one EU international locations digitalise the Schengen visa course of, introduce the potential of submitting visa functions on-line, and substitute the visa sticker.
Such a proposal has been made as, based on the Fee, unifying and harmonising visa procedures throughout the Schengen Space will assist to keep away from ‘visa purchasing’.
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