swiftaw

So, just to clarify, according to the rules at visitportugal, If you have an EU Digital COVID certificate or one from a reciprocal country (which doesn't include the US) you don't need to test to enter, but if all you have is a US CDC card you need a negative test as well?

That seems to disagree with whats in TIMATIC which says negative test OR proof of vaccine with no restriction on which country that proof comes from:
Passengers entering or transiting through Portugal must have:
- a negative COVID-19 rapid antigen test taken at most 24 hours before departure from the first embarkation point; or
- a negative COVID-19 NAAT, PCR or RT-PCR test taken at most 72 hours before departure from the first embarkation point; or
- a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated at least 14 days and at most 270 days before arrival. Vaccines accepted are: AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria), Janssen, Moderna (Spikevax), Nuvaxovid (Novavax) and Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty); or
- a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated and have received a booster dose; or
- a COVID-19 recovery certificate issued at least 11 days and at most 180 days before arrival.

progol

According to the VisitPortugal link which #15/MyPerks posted, US citizens are currently allowed to enter Portugal but still must provide a negative test. The CDC card is not a reciprocal vaccination certificate as it is not listed as one of the countries that has reciprocal status. And, as of right now, Canadian citizens are NOT currently allowed entry to Portugal. They were dropped from the list on Feb. 8. This is the Portuguese government website so any other sites would seem to be inaccurate.

According to news reports, Portugal will be meeting tomorrow to review some of the restrictions (which ones, we don’t know right now), so hopefully, some of these restrictions will be lifted.

swiftaw

Thanks, I presumed in any discrepancy between visitportugal and TIMATIC that visitportugal would be the correct version. Also, if a US citizen holds a Swiss Covid Certificate they wouldn't need a negative test, correct?

chrisny2

There's the next part of TIMATIC, though. It is unclear to me how the two parts interact because they say you need a certificate, but then they say this does not apply to those with the EU DCC. It seems to me with the bulleted list, the latter part is unnecessary, but then the bulleted list would need to clarify EU DCC.:

Passengers entering or transiting through Portugal must have:
- a negative COVID-19 rapid antigen test taken at most 24 hours before departure from the first embarkation point; or
- a negative COVID-19 NAAT, PCR or RT-PCR test taken at most 72 hours before departure from the first embarkation point; or
- a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated at least 14 days and at most 270 days before arrival. Vaccines accepted are: AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria), Janssen, Moderna (Spikevax), Nuvaxovid (Novavax) and Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty); or
- a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated and have received a booster dose; or
- a COVID-19 recovery certificate issued at least 11 days and at most 180 days before arrival.

This does not apply to passengers younger than 12 years.
This does not apply to passengers traveling on a direct flight to Madeira.
This does not apply to passengers with an EU Digital Covid Certificate (EU DCC) showing that they were fully vaccinated at least 14 days before arrival. Vaccines accepted are: AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria), Janssen, Moderna (Spikevax) and Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty).

progol

I don’t know the answer to that but I would err on the side of caution and take a test. It identifies the traveler by where they are from, so presumably a US citizen would still need to take a test. Hopefully, these requirements will be changed soon.

swiftaw

Actually, it seems to identify travelers from where their vaccine certificate is from:

Or a valid vaccination certificate (with a complete vaccination schedule or a vaccine booster) or recovery certificate issued by a third country, under reciprocal conditions: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Cabo Verde, El Salvador, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Israel, Iceland, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Panama, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Togo, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, The Vatican

myperks

this was the case prior to December. US citizen holding a EUDCC or equivalent (Swiss is) didn’t have to test prior to departure. But back then, timatic was also very specific like the Visit Portugal site clearly stating EUDCC. This time around, not so much.

mountainboy

What about Canadians who hold EU DCC? The rules are hard to understand (or rather, it is hard to predict how airline staff might read the rules).

djjaguar64

So on the basis that Canadians are not allowed into Portugal will TAP issue a voucher for future travel?

mountainboy

New rules as of Feb 18 permit Canadians

https://dre.pt/dre/detalhe/despacho/...2022-179423775

Hopefully updated soon at https://www.visitportugal.com/en/con...ented-portugal

Over the last days, consulate officials started hinting the rules would probably be changed on Feb 28; this grew into "changed on the 28th for sure", but it seems the public pressure was enough that they fixed it sooner!

myperks

Canada is now in bold on the visit Portugal site.

peachy3

Hello all
Similar question for travel to Portugal
We are flying from BCN to OPO, hold Australian passports and Australian covid-19 certificates
Australia is not part of the reciprocal arrangements
Has anyone arrived recently from another EU country?
Do we need to PCR? RAT?
Thanks!