The EU Entry/Exit System Is here: New Digital System With Biometric Records

The EU Entry/Exit System is here — what U.S. travelers need to know before going to Europe

Dana Yewbank

U.S. citizens have long faced minimal hurdles when traveling to Europe, but that’s starting to change with the rollout of new border protocols across the region. The EU Entry/Exit System is in full swing as of April 2026, and the upcoming European Travel Information and Authorization System is expected to launch by the end of the year, after several previous delays. Unfortunately, this means you’ll no longer be able to simply hop on a flight and waltz into Italy, France or any other EU country without some added steps.

What is the EU Entry/Exit System?

The EES is “an automated IT system for registering non-EU nationals traveling for a short stay” in Europe and Schengen Area countries, according to the program’s official website. The new digital system replaces traditional passport stamping with biometric records, like facial imaging and fingerprints. It’s a precursor to the ETIAS (which we’ll discuss in more detail below) and aims at making European travel “more secure, efficient and transparent.”

In practice, this means that all visa-exempt travelers and short-stay visa holders are now required to provide biometric data upon entering Europe or the Schengen Area. Most U.S. citizens and residents fall into these categories. This data will then be used to record and track future visits to and from European countries, including non-EU Schengen countries like Norway and Iceland.

The first time you cross a European border under this new system, you will need to provide your biometrics, she says, which will take some extra time. So far, the registration process has been causing major delays and disruptions for travelers in certain countries, including Italy, France and Germany, according to a recent report from The Guardian.

Once you’re in the system, however, future crossings should actually be quicker than they’ve been in the past. “In the long run, it’ll be a much more streamlined process,” says Robinson, which is one of the program’s main objectives.

In favor of modernized biometrics, the EES also does away with traditional passport stamps, which Robinson says many of her clients “are actually quite disappointed about.“ Passports full of fun globetrotting stamps are quickly becoming a relic of the past.

Until the ETIAS launches, there’s nothing else you need to do to prepare to enter Europe, other than mentally preparing for a longer wait at the border.

The official ETIAS website explains that the program is an entry requirement for visa-exempt nationals traveling for short stays in 30 European countries, including Italy, France, Spain and Greece. Once the program launches, you will apply online before heading to Europe. Requirements include valid passport details, security questions and a small fee for anyone between the ages of 18 and 70. If approved, your ETIAS record will be linked electronically to your passport and will be valid for three years or until your passport expires.

Keep in mind that while the EES is already in full effect, the ETIAS has yet to launch. “The official word is that the system will launch in Q4 of 2026, but it’s been pushed back before,” Robinson says. In the meantime, there’s nothing travelers need to do to prepare, aside from keeping all travel documents up-to-date and staying aware of the program’s status.

The U.K. has a new entry system too

If you’re planning to travel across the pond any time soon, the EES and ETIAS programs aren’t the only ones to be aware of. In January 2025, the U.K. introduced new entry requirements for visa-exempt travelers, similar to the ETIAS and ESTA. To legally travel to England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, you’ll need to apply for electronic travel authorization through U.K. Visas and Immigration. The online application process costs £20, and you should receive a decision within one to three days.

There's Something Happening Here:

THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE

BP

There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear. But, the picture is coming into view if you are willing to open your eyes and realize how evil our billionaire overlords really are. If you make oil scarce, you create famine, and famine creates death on a massive scale.

The Peter Theils, Elon Musks, Alex Karps, and Bill Gateses of the world want to electronically ring fence, control, and surveil the last of us, so we don’t interfere in their grand plan of making the world into their own personal Epstein island.

Remember all the food plants “mysteriously” catching fire? Remember the forced culling of herds and fake bird flu resulting in mass murder of flocks? Now refineries across the world “mysteriously” blowing up. The U.S. led assault on Russia’s refineries is expanding. And the entire Middle East oil infrastructure is only a few missiles from going off-line for good.

Meanwhile, as this systematic destruction of the world’s most important resource accelerates, our overlords have convinced the willfully ignorant masses that all is well, because the stock market just hit all-time highs and the price of oil on their TV screen says less than $90 a barrel.

I don’t know when they will pull the rug on this farcical fantasy of debt, but when they do it will be to implement their Agenda 2030/Great Reset solutions. And the ignorant masses will beg them to do so. They couldn’t be any clearer based on their words and actions. AI and these thousands of data centers will not be used to benefit humanity. They will be used to benefit the Epstein class. Trump was not a savior. He is one of them. This Fourth Turning has entered the mass death phase. I hope you are prepared.

"It is obvious what’s happening. Sleeper cells have been activated all around the world to destroy petrochemical facilities. What’s extremely disturbing is governments silence on the matter. They know what’s going on, yet won’t name it." 

Massive blaze at one of India’s biggest petrochemical refineries (HPCL Rajasthan, Pachpadra) 4th major oil/gas incident in 5 days 🔥 - 15 Apr: Viva Energy Geelong Refinery fire (Australia) - 16 Apr: Deadly gas pipeline explosion in Haripur, Pakistan (8 killed) - 18 Apr: Fires at Russian oil refineries (Novokuybyshevsk & Syzran hit by drone strikes) .. and now this! What’s happening?!

Massive explosion and fire at the CET Vest power plant in Bucharest, Romania. Cause: The rupture of a 10,000 kW electrical transformer containing approx 30 tonnes of oil. There are no reports of victims.

Meanwhile at Port Homalin, Myanmar Huge fire set a number of tankers carrying fuel in a devastating blaze which reports say a number of people have died in. That’s Russia, India & Myanmar fuel & energy resource all catching fire in the last 24 hours.

JUST IN🇮🇳🔥 A Fire has broken out at the Western India’s largest oil refinery at Pachpadra, Balotra, ahead of its planned inauguration by PM Narendra Modi on 21th of April.

Within hours of each other: A gas pipeline explodes in Pakistan — Families killed. Homes engulfed in flames. A major refinery erupts in Australia — Fuel supply slashed at one of only TWO remaining facilities. This is not normal. Energy infrastructure across the world is starting to fail… at the exact moment global supply is already under extreme pressure. Coincidence? Or the early signs of a system being pushed beyond its limits? Because here’s the reality: We don’t have the redundancy we once had. We don’t have the buffer. We don’t have the margin for error. One fire… manageable. Two fires… concerning. Multiple failures across continents… That’s how a crisis begins. Not with one catastrophic event — but with a chain reaction of breakdowns. And once the system starts to crack… It doesn’t take much to bring it down.

BREAKING: The Russian oil refinery in Tuapse was hit hard overnight, footage shows widespread fires raging across the site, with a lot of separate fire outbreaks visible.

Then go look up all the other countries just in the last seven days suffering similar instances - these aren’t all coincidences - a global energy crisis is being manufactured in real time

12 Missing Or Dead Scientists And Things To Come

12 Missing or Dead Scientists

JD Rucker

On the evening of April 17, 2026, a single-engine Mooney M20 went down over South Carolina, killing all four people aboard. The pilot was James “Tony” Moffatt, 60 — a decorated military veteran, experimental test pilot trained at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, and a man who had spent 14 Space Shuttle missions supporting ISS construction as a payload and flight crew specialist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. His wife Leasa, 61, and their two sons — Andrew, 30, a research engineer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and William, 28, an IT professional — died alongside him. An entire family. An entire repository of knowledge. Gone in one moment.

Moffatt founded an aerospace consulting firm after retiring from the Army in 2008. He worked on the Army’s Degraded Visual Environment Mitigation program and the Next Generation Unmanned Aircraft System technology demonstration. He was, by any measure, exactly the kind of man whose expertise sits at the intersection of advanced propulsion, military aviation, and the kind of classified aerospace research that governments do not discuss at press conferences.

He is also the twelfth name on a list that the United States Congress has now formally asked four federal agencies to explain.

Begin with the general. Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland holds a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from MIT and degrees from Harvard. He commanded Kirtland Air Force Base’s Phillips Research Site and, most significantly, the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio — the facility that served as the headquarters for Project Blue Book, the military’s official UFO investigation program from 1952 to 1969, and which has long been associated in declassified documents and congressional testimony with materials recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash site.

In leaked emails from 2016 — obtained when Russian hackers breached the account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta — Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge described McCasland as a key advisor to his UFO disclosure project. DeLonge wrote that McCasland was “very, very aware” of classified material and that the general had helped assemble his advisory team. After his Air Force retirement, McCasland worked as an unpaid consultant on DeLonge’s media and fiction projects related to UAP disclosure. Whatever one thinks of DeLonge’s enterprise, the documented link between a sitting Air Force Research Laboratory commander and an organized effort to bring classified UAP information into public view is not nothing.

On February 27, 2026, McCasland walked out of his Albuquerque home during a one-hour window while his wife was at a medical appointment. He left behind his phone, his prescription glasses, and his wearable devices. He took his hiking boots, his wallet, and a .38-caliber revolver. Despite weeks of searches involving drones, dogs, helicopters, horseback teams, and the FBI, no trace of him has been found.

His wife has pushed back on theories connecting his disappearance to his classified history. She noted he had no active high-level clearances and no “special knowledge” about Roswell. She is almost certainly telling the truth about what she knows. The more pressing question is what she may not know — and what he knew that she was never told.

Then there is Monica Reza. In the early 2000s, working at Rocketdyne, she co-invented a nickel-based superalloy called Mondaloy — a material engineered specifically for advanced rocket engines, funded in part by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The same organization McCasland later led. Congressional investigators have flagged this overlap as unexplained. By June 2025, Reza was serving as Director of Materials Processing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. On the morning of June 22, she went hiking near Mount Waterman in the Angeles National Forest with a companion. They were roughly thirty feet apart on a well-traveled trail. The companion turned to check on her. She smiled and waved. He turned back. Moments later, he looked again. She was gone. No body has ever been found. No explanation has ever been offered.

The case of Amy Eskridge is the one that should stop every reader cold. Eskridge was 34 years old and held a double major in chemistry and biology from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, later earning a master’s in electrical engineering. She co-founded the Institute for Exotic Science with her father, retired NASA plasma physicist Richard Eskridge, with a stated and public mission: to bring anti-gravity propulsion research out of the classified world and into public discourse. In 2020, she announced she was prepared to present new foundational anti-gravity research — but required NASA authorization before doing so. She never received it.

In the years before her death, Eskridge gave public interviews stating explicitly that her life was in danger. She described years of escalating harassment — physical surveillance, alleged directed-energy attacks, and psychological intimidation. She told audiences she was “scared” and “tired” and felt compelled to disclose soon because “it’s like escalating.”

She enlisted a retired British intelligence officer, Franc Milburn, to document the harassment. Milburn concluded she had not committed suicide. On June 11, 2022, Amy Eskridge was found dead in Huntsville, Alabama. Authorities ruled her death a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No investigative report has ever been released to the public. No medical examiner’s findings have been made available. Independent investigators later presented Milburn’s findings to Congress, including testimony from journalist Michael Shellenberger that Eskridge was killed by a private aerospace company because of her involvement in the UAP disclosure conversation. After her death, the Institute for Exotic Science’s website went dark.

And then there is Moffatt — the twelfth name, the most recent, dying with his entire family on a clear April evening. The NTSB and FAA are investigating. No cause has been released. In isolation, a small plane crash is a tragedy. On a list that now includes a vanished general, a disappearing rocket scientist, and a dead anti-gravity researcher who predicted her own murder, it becomes something harder to dismiss.

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Earthquake swarm sparks panic as shockwaves are felt from Nevada to California

Earthquake swarm sparks panic as shockwaves are felt from Nevada to California

STACY LIBERATORE

Residents across Nevada and parts of California were startled on Wednesday after a series of earthquakes sent shockwaves across hundreds of miles.

At least four notable tremors were detected near Carson City, Nevada, ranging from 2.6 to 4.8 magnitude.

The swarm struck at 10.23am PT (1.23pm ET) near Silver Springs, Nevada, an area that has experienced an uptick in seismic activity in recent weeks.

One local posted on Facebook: 'It's the same area that's been rocking us the past week. It's not stopping; I fear volcanic activity. 

There are volcanic features in this region, but officials say they are generally considered extinct or dormant rather than active, immediate threats.

The US Geological Survey reported that shaking was felt as far west as areas outside Sacramento, California. One Californian shared on Facebook that they felt shaking in Colfax, which is about 140 miles west of the Nevada epicenter.

Residents across western Nevada reported feeling the ground shake for several seconds after the 4.8 magnitude quake, which followed a cluster of smaller tremors recorded minutes earlier.

One local shared on Facebook: 'Our house shook pretty good. It lasted longer than most do.' Another added: 'Here in Yerington, it felt stronger than the last.'

Many locals reported feeling the swarm on Wednesday, with the first significant quake, a 3.5 magnitude, hitting around 10.22am PT.

'Our house shook, then started a following motion, which sure does excite the dogs,' one Nevada resident shared on Facebook. 

Silver Lake lies in the Basin and Range Province, a vast region stretching across much of the western US.

In this area, the Earth’s crust is gradually being stretched and thinned, creating frequent faulting and seismic activity.

As the crust pulls apart, fractures known as faults form, and movement along these faults produces earthquakes.

The epicenter is also located in the Walker Lane seismic zone, a highly active area where tectonic plates pull apart land, creating numerous strike-slip faults.

The USGS also detected dozens of smaller earthquakes amid the swarm.

Multiple earthquakes in Silver Lake can be caused by several factors, but the most common reason is movement along faults, which are fractures in the Earth’s crust where blocks of rock slip past each other.

Pentagon predicts 6 months needed to clear mines from Strait of Hormuz

Pentagon predicts 6 months needed to clear mines from Strait of Hormuz — source

AP

The Pentagon told US lawmakers this week it will likely take six months to clear the mines set in the strait, according to a person familiar with the situation who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive information.

Officials from the Department of Defense delivered the information during a classified briefing at the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

The session left more questions than answers as lawmakers probed for information about the cost of the war against Iran, the strategy and objectives, the person says. The lawmakers also raised questions that have still gone unanswered about the strike on a school compound during the early days of the war.