Talk:Visa policy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean

When did the standardisation happen

I have added {{when}} to the introductory sentence because this article does not explain the chronology at all. Sorry I dont have time to investigate this. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 09:21, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

It's a bit implicit indeed. It started when the Netherlands Antilles were dissolved; and in principle is in anticipation of a more specific legal basis (the Kingdom Law on Visas, rijksvisumwet), which is subject of strong debate between the Netherlands and the other 3 countries (how hold that they have autonomy in this matter)... L.tak (talk) 18:42, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for revising the article and your explanation here. It is a lot clearer now. A less urgent issue with chronology is in the statement "the [pre-standardisation visa] requirements showed strong similarities", as it doesn't indicate when and how these similarities came to be. There are three probable causes that I can think of:

1. In 1986, when Aruba split from Netherlands Antilles, both countries overhauled their visa requirements, or Aruba copied the visa requirements of Netherlands Antilles, and/or
2. Aruba and Netherlands Antilles have purposefully kept the visa requirements in sync, and/or
3. Netherlands implemented the Schengen Agreement between 1990 and 1995, and around this time both Aruba and Netherlands Antilles updated their visa requirements.

John Vandenberg ^(chat) 23:44, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

EFTA

@L.tak: I noticed that you split "EU/EFTA members" into two lines in the table, because EFTA doesn't use the EU flag. However, I find it cumbersome to have two lines to list this group of countries. What do you think of recombining them with the term "EU/Schengen members"? The Schengen Area includes the EFTA members, which are not part of the EU, but its visa policy is still managed by the EU. In addition, the EU flag is also (and originally) the flag of the Council of Europe, which includes all EU and EFTA members (and more), and it's supposed to represent all Europe. Alternatively, what about just listing "EU/EFTA" or "EU/Schengen" without any flag? Heitordp (talk) 18:25, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

It is indeed mainly the flag which bothers me. There is no EFTA flag, and this is not about the CoE members, so it is not appropriate there. If you remove the flag, I could live with keeping them together. I don't see however what the problem is with having an additional line, just as we have the "list-countries" as an separate row. L.tak (talk) 18:46, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. I agree that the CoE is not appropriate here, and the separate line for EFTA is not that bad. My goal was to keep the table as concise as possible to show only the differences between the territories, but I'll leave it as it currently is. Heitordp (talk) 03:55, 19 August 2018 (UTC)