Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 - no visa for a short stay
Not a bloc and not a treaty between equals: a list the European Union writes alone and can change alone. Nationals of the states in Annex II need no visa to enter the Schengen area for stays of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period.
**Twenty-four of this corpus's thirty-three states are on it, and nine are not.** The nine are in the companion group. The split does not follow language, region, income or any bloc the region itself built: Belize is out while every other CARICOM state in the Caribbean's east is in, Jamaica is out while Barbados is in, Ecuador and Bolivia are out while Peru and Colombia are in.
**Five of the twenty-four carry a footnote** - Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Peru and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - making the exemption conditional on a visa-exemption agreement with the Union entering into force. We have not read those agreements and the Regulation does not say whether they are in force.
The list governs every Schengen state, so it is recorded once and used by every European destination in this corpus.
Where it actually bites
Membership is one thing and what a destination does with it is another. These are the countries covered here that treat these nationalities differently, and on which question.
Spain- Visiting as a tourist · No Visa, and Ninety Days Measured Backwards from Any Day
- consolidatesRegulation (EU) 2018/1806 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement, consolidated version
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