No latest applicant from BD qualified to receive Schengen visa until further notice
On June 27, schengenvisainfo.com posted a set of 54 countries that europe has chosen to qualify for Schengen visa because they reopen their borders found in July 1. Bangladesh had not been contained in the list.
However, the existing "ineligibility" only pertains to new applicants, not those who, per say, curently have multiple Schengen visas valid for the next five years.
On an inquiry, Granit Sadiku, Deputy Editor, SchengenVisaInfo, informed The Bangladesh Monitor concerning this today.
Meaning, zero new applicant from Bangladesh is normally eligible to enter Schengen countries after the EU reopens its borders by early on July for travel. Just new candidates from the 54 countries will take advantage of the reopening of the EU external borders.
As well, EU officials said that the list will be updated according to the epidemiological situation and coronavirus response in each individual country, the opportunity to apply containment measures during travel, and whether or not that country has got lifted travel restrictions towards the EU.
The commission also recommended that the member states should start allowing third-country nationals to enter the EU beginning with July 1, slowly but surely and partially, based on the epidemiological situation in each third-country.
Meaning, Bangladesh will likely be considered "eligible" for Schengen visa again once the "epidemiological situation" found in the united states gets better.
Schengen identifies the EU passport-free area that covers most of the European countries, and allows a good person to go to any member of the Schengen area by using a short-stay visa. There happen to be no border controls within the Schengen Area.
Only two South Asian countries - India and Bhutan - made the list. Besides, Bangladesh's neighbouring country Myanmar together with Thailand and Vietnam from Southeast Asia likewise made the chop as countries qualified to receive Schengen visa.
Reports said that EU officials didn't agree on a common set of the countries that could definitely be banned from entering the block after the border reopening but were able to create a set of the countries with an improved epidemiological circumstance, the citizens of which will be able to enter European countries by the finish of this next week.
Countries want Brazil, Qatar, the united states and Russia is only going to manage to enter European countries at a later date when the epidemiological circumstances in these countries improves, the reports further stated.
Nationals of the following countries are listed in this draft list to qualify for Schengen visas: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Australia, Bahamas, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Dominica, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Mauritius, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Palau, Paraguay, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Serbia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican Metropolis, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia.
