New rules will mean fully vaccinated travellers from the EU and the US will no longer have to quarantine on arrival in England.
The plan was signed off by senior ministers at the Government's Covid-O committee today and will formally recognise jabs administered in those countries, reports the Mirror.
Exemption to self-isolation rules for vaccinated travellers from amber list countries currently only applies to people who have had their jabs on the NHS.
The move will come as a major boost to ex-pats who may have been unable to visit friends and family in the UK for months.
The news rules could come into force as early as Monday.
The changes will only apply to England initially but the devolved administrations tend to take similar stances on travel policy.
Official details of the plan are expected to be announced this afternoon.
Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner branded the plans "reckless" ahead of the official announcement.
“At the moment, everybody wants to go on holiday and get back to normal as quickly as possible, but this is reckless,” she told Sky News.
“We know that the Delta variant came into this country and delayed the lifting of some of the restrictions and caused infections here. We need to make sure that we’ve got proper data-driven analysis, and that we look at an international passport for vaccines.
“And we also know that people who have had the vaccine, of course, can still get the virus, so a testing regime is very important and crucial as well.”
It comes as it emerged that double jabbed Brits will not be legally required to take a Covid test to avoid having to isolate if they are pinged from August 16.
Fully vaccinated people will no longer have to quarantine for 10 days if they come into contact with a positive Covid case, the Government announced earlier this month.
It was expected that people would be asked to take a PCR test to confirm they didn't have the virus.
But the Mirror understands that the Government has now decided that fully vaccinated people without symptoms will not be legally required to get tested.
People will still be strongly advised to take a test if they are pinged by the NHS app or contacted by Test and Trace - but it won't be mandatory.
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