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Team Relocations Is Now SIRVA Worldwide Relocation & Moving!

SIRVA as a global leader in moving and relocation services offers unmatched global breadth and innovative technology, complementing Team Relocations' longstanding reputation for high quality moving and relocation solutions to some of the world's leading multinational organizations.

Our resources combine the unique talents and expertise of leaders across a broad scope of mobility-related services. This synthesis is a key part of our commitment to provide our clients and their employees with the best moving and relocation experience possible.

By combining Team Relocations with SIRVA, we offer 75 office locations worldwide with over 2,900 employees operating in 180+ countries. Customers benefit from our:

  • End to End Service Delivery Model from departure to destination. We will help you with everything including visa and immigration, employee counseling and VIP services. Our relocation specialists are here to help. 
  • Client Advisory Services. We will work with you, according to your specific needs, to achieve more efficient and high-quality relocations. SIRVA offers a multitude of client financial services, from lump sum to expense management, which are designed to help ease the financial burden of relocating your employees. We can assist in compensation and payroll administrations, vendor management, intern management programs, group move management, and management reporting. 
  • Home and Mortgage Services. From home finding to tenancy management, we can help ease the process of moving and help relocating employees have one less thing to worry about.
  • Moving Services. We can help you and your employees get to where they need to be. Whether moving to a new house, a new office or trying to relocate a pet, we have the resources to help make the process go as smoothly as possible for your employees. 
  • Technology Solutions. Our innovative and flexible technology solutions have been developed you and your employees in mind: easy-to-use, intuitive and helps to save time and resources, whilst enhancing reporting capabilities. We continue to invest in order to improve the relocation process for both mobility teams and relocating employees. 

 

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What the EU’s New Entry/Exit System (EES) Means for Your Mobile Workforce

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  • Thursday, February 5, 2026 5:00:43 AM

Long-awaited changes to border protection procedures for travel to the European Union/Schengen Area are going into effect in April 2026. What does this mean for your mobility program and your mobile employees?

What is the European Entry/Exit System and what is changing?

Beginning 10 April 2026, the European Union’s Entry/Exit System (EES) will be in place at all external borders of the 29 Schengen-area countries. Manual passport stamping for most non-EU short-stay visitors will be replaced by a digital system that records each traveler’s entry and exit and becomes the official proof of legal stay. Travelers who arrive at the Schengen border may be asked to provide biometric data (such as facial image and fingerprints). The travel document details will be stored together with entry/exit records.

Who is affected?

These new border protection procedures apply mainly to non-EU nationals traveling to the Schengen area for short stays. Short stays are defined as visits of up to 90 days within any 180-day period, whether the non-EU national needs a short-stay visa or are visa-exempt.

EU citizens, family members of EU citizens traveling with residence rights, or individuals holding long-stay visas or national residence permits (for work, study, or family reasons) are generally not covered by the EES. For these traveler groups, the current procedures will remain in place.

What does this mean for you and your relocating employees?

For individual travelers and family members:

  • Allow for extra time at airports and land borders, especially in the months after EES goes live, as the system and processes are still acclimating.
  • Carefully monitor the number of days spent in the Schengen area to not exceed 90 days in the 180-day limit. Overstays will be recorded by the new system and may impact future travel or immigration applications.

For employers, HR, and global mobility teams:

  • Review your travel and global mobility policies to ensure they align with the new border-control environment and that mobile employees are prepared in advance.
  • Consider allocating additional time into your employee business traveler itineraries to/within Europe to account for potential delays and the new biometric steps that may be required at the border.
  • Make sure mobile employees are educated on the 90- to 180-day rule and consider the use of central monitoring of travel days into and out of the Schengen area to reduce the risk of inadvertent overstays.

Looking Ahead

Later in 2026, the EU plans to introduce the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS), a pre-travel authorization requirement for visa-exempt travelers, which will be separate from the EES system at the border. We will share further guidance once the ETIAS timing and requirements are confirmed and explain how it interacts with existing travel and immigration procedures.


Sirva can help support you as a result of these changes. If you would like to discuss how these changes may affect your travel or mobility programme, please contact your Sirva representative or email us at concierge@sirva.com.


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