Almost three million Ukrainians have benefited from visa-free travel to the EU countries over two years

Administration of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, posted 11 June 2019 09:10

Two years ago, from June 11, 2017, the visa-free regime between Ukraine and the European Union officially entered into force.

Since the beginning of the visa-free regime, Ukrainians have made 42.6 million trips to the EU countries.

9.2 million citizens with biometric passports have crossed the border, of which almost 3 million Ukrainians travelled without visas, with new biometric passports, so they benefited from visa-free regime.

The largest number of our compatriots - more than 1 million people crossed the border with Poland. Also, citizens actively travelled to Hungary and Romania-350 thousand and more than 245 thousand people, respectively. About 226 thousand people crossed the border with Slovakia.