Thanks for this.

I hope that green notices will also be deleted once no longer relevant, like SISII alerts are.

Just a quick update for those subject to notification requirements. Sajid Javid has written to the EU to indicate how they plan to deal with the loss of access to SISII in the event of a no deal brexit. They will still issue alerts but they will be through the Interpol green notice system.

Well, the EU will still be bound by their own directives, including GDPR, so you should have nothing to fear from them. I'm not sure the US would be interested in processing all that data for very little benefit, and we certainly wouldn't have the resources to process all theirs.

As for descending into chaos, due to austerity, the government has been unable to source funding for a big enough handcart, and the cabinet are still arguing over the future relationship with hell and the implementation period.

I'm sure Brighton is lovely throughout the year, although I've only ever been there in February and August.

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Why are you concerned with the sharing of information?

The EU will only be concerned with people with convictions in the past 10 years.

If this doesn’t apply to you, they may still see your criminal history but if it is older than 10 years, it will be irrelevant to them and you’re of no concern.

It won’t effect your ability to travel to the EU if you’re able to answer honestly to the ETIAS questions.

My company has just been purchased by a European company... I may be required to travel overseas in future. It's not good, but I will deal with that if the need arises. 

The 10-year rule seems sensible, and hopefully that threshold will pass (for me) by the time the visa is implemented.  For me, however, one of the biggest concern is the sharing of information post-brexit. Many of the rules we have been bound by (and included with) will no longer be relevant. I would like to know some facts about how Europe would be required to protect data and not share with companies such as the US. I am also concerned that when our country descends into chaos, we may strike-up data sharing agreements with countries such as the US.

It depresses me, but to be fair - there is little we can do about it. I hear Brighton is lovely in the summer

Thanks Ben, not good then but at least its clear to me now. Hope you had a good new year.

Currently, everyone who notifies foreign travel under the SOR is automatically added to the SIS II (Schengen Information System). This is under what they call an Article 36(2) alert. The police have no discretion in this - unlike when notifying non-European travel, where they assess on a case-by-case basis how much of a risk (or not) you are, and use that to decide whether or not to inform the destination country of your plans. I have travelled to Canada, Mexico, Thailand and Kenya while notifying on the SOR and have had no problems upon arrival. Yet ironically, when I arrive in France I am grilled by passport control, despite (for the moment) having the automatic right to travel, live and work there!

With sex offences inevitably being on the list of disqualifying offences for ETIAS and with all European travel by RSOs being mandatorily added to SIS II, they will find out when you arrive at passport control and scan your passport, so you can't lie like when going the US and hoping they don't have the info. From the list above and the info provided by other users, It looks to me like anyone on the SOR will be unable to travel to Europe, period, and will only be able to go there again once they are off the SOR. Of course, I hope I am wrong on this.

While people with a record for any other kind of offence can risk lying on the ETIAS form and perhaps get through (because they don't need to tell anyone about their movements), people who have to do an SOR notification won't be able to do this as their details will be put straight onto SIS II.

I dont have any immediate plans to travel abroad but I am curious to understand how this would work. My offence was 14+ years ago but due to a very slow process I wasn't charged for three and a half years so I am on the sor until 2022 counting from release(first notification) I have to notify of all foreign travel so I am unsure how this would affect me not having to disclose my offence at the border when they would presumably be notified anyway I imagine.

It's worth remembering that it comes down to a combination of the ten-year period and this list of serious offences. So, if someone was convicted of a serious crime over ten years previously, they wouldn't need to disclose it. If they were convicted of an offence not covered by this list then they would never have to disclose it. Some people without access to this forum are getting quite worked up about this, and some politicians and commentators are even scaremongering. That's quite a stretch for some of them, because suddenly we're not the lowest of the low, we're plucky Brits being oppressed by the EU monolith. Or words to that effect. Whatever next?

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If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. (George Bernard Shaw)