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Eu Adopts Fully Digital Schengen Visa: Paper Sticker Disappears

Summary by linfodrome.com
In the Schengen area, more stickers in passports after the validation by the European Commission of the e-visa. The paper sticker of visas, present in millions of passports for decades, will disappear. On 8 April 2026, the European Commission officially adopted the legal acts that will make all Schengen visas short and long-stay digital, replacing the physical sticker with a cryptographically secure, online verifiable 2D barcode.
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In the Schengen area, more stickers in passports after the validation by the European Commission of the e-visa. The paper sticker of visas, present in millions of passports for decades, will disappear. On 8 April 2026, the European Commission officially adopted the legal acts that will make all Schengen visas short and long-stay digital, replacing the physical sticker with a cryptographically secure, online verifiable 2D barcode.

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linfodrome.com broke the news on Saturday, April 11, 2026.
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