Albania Visa/Passport News

Albania and North Macedonia will sign the Agreement of the Phytosanitary Certificates, in order to facilitate trade exchanges of agricultural products between the two countries, as part of the “mini-Schengen” agreement. The Minister of Agriculture of Albania, Bledi Çuçi and the Minister of Agriculture of North Macedonia Trajan Dimkovski will sign the final version of the agreement, on which they have worked for about six months since their last meeting in Albania’s capital, VisaGuide.World reports. “Almost everything [...]

A Dutch politician wants the Prime Minister of Netherlands to take Albania’s plans to start selling citizenship seriously, and to be prepared for taking measures in case the latter starts running the scheme it announced recently. Pieter Omtzigt, a Dutch politician, a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal and a Member of the Parliament, has tabled ten questions related to Albania's recently announced plans to start running a scheme that sells passports to foreigners, in exchange of [...]

Officials of the European Union have implied that the block does not support plans of Albania’s Primer Edi Rama to start selling Albanian passports to foreign rich investors, through a few statements in response to the local media. According to the EU Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourova investor citizenship schemes in EU candidate countries raise concerns about certain inherent risks, in particular as regards security, money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption. “Due to the prospect of future [...]

Shortly after several EU countries refused to start membership talks with Albania and following an initiative of the Western Balkan countries to create their own Schengen Area, now the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wants to establish a scheme that would enable the country to sell Albanian citizenship to wealthy foreigners willing to invest. PM Rama, who was invited to speak at the Global Citizenship Conference in London held by citizenship advisory Henley and Partners, announced that [...]

Only about a month after the idea for the establishment of a Schengen-alike borderless zone in the Western Balkan was presented by Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia, two out of six WB countries have opted out of it. Upon the meeting held in Ohrid on November 9, between the President of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev, the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia Herzegovina, the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, and the [...]

Three Western Balkan countries, Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia have agreed on the establishment of a free movement zone of people, goods, services, and capital, which they have called “Balkan’s mini-Schengen”. On October 11, the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic hosted the Prime Ministers of Albania and North Macedonia, Edi Rama and Zoran Zaev, in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad. During the meeting, the highest officials of the three countries signed an agreement which would among [...]

The Albanian police have hit a criminal group of 36 suspected members in a police operation called "the Wrong Path". According to a Joint Statement of the State Police and the Prosecution for Serious Crimes, 32 Albanian citizens have been arrested, a police officer among them. Four other citizens have been declared wanted. Around 250 police forces were involved in the operation, during which four workshops with equipment for forging travel visas have been discovered and seized. [...]

The citizens of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar can visit Albania visa-free starting April 1 until October 31, 2017. The lifting of visa requirements takes place in a bid of the Albanian Republic to attract foreign tourists to visit the country. The Albanian ambassador in Saudi Arabia, Sami Shiba, announced lately that Albania had offered visa-free travel for the citizens of Gulf Cooperation Council which is the political and economic alliance of six Middle Eastern countries [...]