Howardh
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It means you simply can't set off on a whim and expect to be let in with just your passport as happened before (example, someone in London fancying a Eurostar to Lille for some shopping the same day). You need to establish your ETIAS which takes around 72hrs as alluded to already - more if there's an issue.Well a Google search brings up a FAQ on the ETIAS visa-waiver: https://www.etias.info/visa-requirements/uk-citizens/
So what do they mean by that???
And your passport has to have at least 6 months validity on it (maybe 6 months to the return date, I dunno?) so anyone who's passport is due to expire next year needs to bear that in mind.
These restrictions didn't even happen before we joined the EEC, indeed one could purchase an one-day passport for France from the Post Office. Welcome to the future and all the red tape it brings, when I though leaving the EU was meant to reduce red tape? Ha.