I applied on the French site on 10/12 and just received an email with a QR code a few minutes ago. Did my wife's on 10/15 and she got hers today as well.

Which canton did you apply to? I applied yesterday to Zurich and they want more information about my trip. I sent flight booking/itinerary and hotel booking. Both confirmed.

I did my entire trip with the US converted covid to France EU one and I never had to pull out my white cdc card anywhere from flying to customs to restaurants. it was amazing. im sure the swiss one will be fine as well.

Nice tip. Was the hotel reservation in your name? Was this one reservation good enough for your wife to get the Swiss cert.?

so no flight reservation required? Just passport copy, cdc card and hotel res? Thanks.

Probably YES, in the COVID VIRUS Forum on FT applicants had their applications rejected for "unknown" reasons, to make "corrections" may require another 30 SF payment.
They DO have a phone number to call.

On OCT 26 I applied for a FRENCH PASS SANITAITRE (just before they stopped accepting on-line applications). Today I received two emails from PASS SANITAIRE: 7:32 AM your application is being examined, at 7:33 AM my application was accepted (pdf withQR code) was attached.

Well I've worked in the US Federal bureaucracy for 25 years and am used to being on the receiving end of the bad rap ;) Not to say I'm not happy to have my job of course :D

This Monday

applied early Oct for a trip in Jan and received the pass today.

Has anybody any experience about converting a non-European COVID certificate (such as the CDC or the Canadian Proof of Vaccination) into the Belgian CST (COVID Safe Ticket) ?
And any experience regarding acceptance of one of the non-European COVID certificates in place of the CST in Belgium?

This morning the French Minister of Health announced that a third dose is now mandatory for everyone over 21. This starts as of January 15, 2022, and the deadline is five months from the last dose. Enforcement is simple: if you miss the deadline, you lose your Pass Sanitaire.

I still haven't seen anything that says that this "third dose" deadline does not apply to tourists. The other finer details here are also missing.

But here's the good news, at least, according to a French TV station: "Nous pouvons passer cette vague sans recourir aux outils les plus contraignants" qu'ont déjà imposés certains pays voisins de la France, a-t-il souligné, précisant qu'il n'y aurait à ce stade "ni fermeture anticipée de commerces ni restrictions de déplacement", face à cette recrudescence de l'épidémie." That means that "at this stage" there will be no lock-downs or travel restrictions like those in neighboring countries. So that's good, right?

The French government is expected to announce today that everyone who doesn’t have their 3rd dose (booster) will have their passe Sanitaire cancelled on January 15, 2022 or 7 months after receiving their 2 dose. (Already set to expire on Dec 15 for seniors) not sure how this will play for foreigners who may not be eligible for a third dose in their own country.

Edit FallenPlat beat me to it!, but to clarify, people 18+ are eligible for their 3rd dose after 5 months from their last dose, and the pass expires after 7 months (unless they receive the booster). Also announced is that if not vaccinated, a PCR/Antigen test performed will only be valid for 24 hrs instead of 72 hrs currently.

One significant change for people who are not fully vaccinated and have been getting by with a test every 72 hours to keep their pass valid -- the tests will henceforth be valid for only 24 hours.

EU Commission is already talking about limiting the validity of vaccination for the digital pass to 9 months.

Of course member nations can impose more strict or loose measures.

I believe the Netherlands is talking about removing the exemption of the negative test altogether, which is causing some of the rioting, especially by the youngest age groups, late teens to mid twenties young people. They are among the most vaccine-resistant.


Another exemption they should remove from the EU digital pass, the exemption for "recovered" people. They put that in last spring because EU vaccination rollout was slow so a lot of people didn't have a chance to get vaccinated and they didn't want to discriminate vs. people who didn't have a chance to get vaccinated before summer travel.

That excuse no longer exists so they should just give passes to people who've gotten vaccinated, including getting vaccinated after recovering from infection.

if you have the antibodies from a previous infection, you shouldn't be forced to get a booster. Still much unknown about Covid and the vaccines.