{"id":526225,"date":"2026-04-12T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526225\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:23:12","slug":"uk-eta-fee-jumps-25-to-20-raising-entry-costs-for-visa-exempt-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526225\/","title":{"rendered":"UK ETA Fee Jumps 25 % to \u00a320, Raising Entry Costs for Visa-Exempt Travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b1d34b65-c0a0-4bf7-923e-eb5468b13957_middle.jpg\" alt=\"UK ETA Fee Jumps 25 % to \u00a320, Raising Entry Costs for Visa-Exempt Travellers\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>        The United Kingdom has quietly increased the price of its Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) from \u00a316 to \u00a320, effective for all applications lodged on or after 8 April 2026. Travel and Tour World, confirming Home Office figures, calculates that the four-pound hike represents a 25 % rise in under 18 months. Although \u00a320 sounds modest, the impact multiplies quickly for multinational employers that move project teams in and out of Britain. <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/additional_1_b1d34b65-c0a0-4bf7-923e-eb5468b13957_middle.jpg\" alt=\"UK ETA Fee Jumps 25 % to \u00a320, Raising Entry Costs for Visa-Exempt Travellers\"\/><\/p>\n<p>VisaHQ\u2019s online platform can remove much of that administrative sting. Through our dedicated UK page (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visahq.com\/united-kingdom\/\" class=\"news__big_one_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.visahq.com\/united-kingdom\/<\/a>), organisations and travellers can lodge ETA requests in bulk, track approvals in real time and receive proactive reminders\u2014making it easier to budget for the new \u00a320 fee and to keep project timelines intact. <\/p>\n<p>A single eight-person consultancy squad making ten ETA-covered trips each year will now spend an extra \u00a3320 annually. Large mobility programmes that previously absorbed the \u00a316 fee may need to revisit cost-sharing policies with clients and assignees. The ETA is already mandatory for nationals from the Gulf, Jordan and Bahrain, and from 25 February the UK began enforcing a strict \u201cno permission, no travel\u201d rule for the remaining 80-plus visa-exempt countries, including the United States, Canada and the EU. Airlines are fined for boarding passengers without a valid ETA, so the higher cost is unavoidable. Officials tie the increase to inflation and the expense of rolling out a fully digital border. Critics argue the timing\u2014just days before the EU\u2019s own EES went live\u2014risks perception that the UK is pricing itself out of short-term business visits. The fee remains lower than the US ESTA (US $21) but now outstrips the planned \u20ac7 ETIAS charge for Europe. Companies should update pre-trip approval tools, ensure travel-management systems trigger the new payment amount and remind staff that ETAs must now be in place before airport check-in.\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visahq.com\/united-kingdom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British Visas &amp; Immigration Team<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visahq.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ VisaHQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VisaHQ&#8217;s expert visas and immigration team helps individuals and companies navigate global travel, work, and residency requirements. We handle document preparation, application filings, government agencies coordination, every aspect necessary to ensure fast, compliant, and stress-free approvals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom has quietly increased the price of its Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) from \u00a316 to \u00a320,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-526225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}