Question follow-through · 21567

Electronic Travel Authorisations: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects the first overseas visitors to Northern Ireland arriving via the Republic of Ireland to be impacted by the UK Electronic Travel Authorisation scheme.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 3 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 8 Jan 2025
Answer: 8 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects the first overseas visitors to Northern Ireland arriving via the Republic of Ireland to be impacted by the UK Electronic Travel Authorisation scheme.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
We are introducing the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) scheme to enhance our ability to screen travellers upstream and stop those who pose a threat from travelling to the UK. The scheme, which already applies to nationals of Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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