However if you have been banned or denied access to a country, this could hit you down the line in other parts of the world where youd have to apply for a visa (because that is a visa question!). But of the 32 topics that Sally has started, 6 of them have been about Schengen and visa issues. I dont want to have my trip aborted before it even begins! If you have further questions, feel free to reach out more! Hope this helped! I COMPLETELY overlooked the fact that everything is now computerized and that they could scan my new passport and see all the data from my old passportand see that Ive overstayed. In the future try not to purchase tickets until youre SURE the paperwork is finishedand make sure your employee is sensitive to your own legality. Thinking to leave through Spain, spend my 90 days out, finalize the divorce, come back, and marry a friend. Periods of stay authorised under a residence permit or a long-stay visa shall not be taken into account in the calculation of the duration of stay on the territory of the Member States. Also, if denied, he cannot come back in November, because his 90/180 will be finished. You dont want to overstay any tourist visa because you were impatient in going about it the legal way So if you were unable to get a visa, you will absolutely need to leave Spain (and Schengen) before your 90 days are up to avoid getting a fine and having it be on your travel record. Left back to the US, then I came back to Germany, entering via Iceland July 18 and am still here. Spain is getting stricter. So, I am not really sure if what you did at the immigration office would have granted you a SSN. i fell in love with someone here and now we have a home together in the mountains. I am now in the U.S. and will return in 8 weeks, when the 6 months have passed. At the moment with the virus, it is an odd situation with flying anywhere because countries have actually shut their borders. My question is is it okay for me to flying back to my country from Brussels again ( since I arrived in Brussels before) ? All Rights Reserved. I do know NL shut down, so it might be able to save you some time. Thanks for checking back with us! My visa is obviously in the system (Ive entered several other EU countries and reentered Germany well after my 90 day mark). Most cases they will let her through and give a warning. Would you have any experience on passport control in these countries and if they would have a problem with just two days of overstay? So,my stay right now for waiting my residency permit,will be counted as over stay or they will consider me, since i applied for legalistaion of my stay. Being an Au Pair? Your situation sounds like you should call the Polish embassy to ask about your status. It doesnt have to be a non-Schengen country. This is great information for those looking! If the overstay are few days so might be visa officer understand and its approx 40 -45 days that is the main concern just last question if i get any good prof from Italy that my daughter was ill and is there any chance to get visas ??? If this happens and in the future you apply, you can always appeal denial decisions with the paperwork proving your case. I came to Spain in September of 2016 (entered Schengen via Portugal), to live with my fiancee (shes Spanish). So, Im from Serbia (non-EU), but I can stay in Shengen countries for 90 days without any visa or anything. If they find your type D visa reasoning applicable, you should be fine in applying for this. I would recommend keeping your length of stays inside Europe less if you are traveling so frequently for work. Along with a copy of the bilateral agreement. They let me slide, gave me a stamp and I flew to Iceland for a layover on my way back to the US. Anyway, I overstayed my visa by 5 months, but I really wanna travel to Bulgaria and turkey. Thanks. Ie: You enter Iceland in March & wait 20 days for your visa to be approved. Hi Stef! They helped me so much and i stayed at them 5 hours until they finished my papers !They understand me but the said i have to be punished and he gave me the minimum 6 mnth. My concern is once she reaches the UK: will the UK immigration/customs see that she overstayed her Schengen 90-day tourist allowance, and fine/deport her back to the US? I replied to your private email in response! I am Iranian and I am in Spain now. It is an extremely rare circumstance, but its worth double checking you have an exit stamp when leaving the EU. FYI my return to US with my kids is Rome-Zurich-LA Any advice would be a big help.Thanks. My passport was stamped then I was allowed on my flight back home. or should i send letter to embassy of switzerland? Hope you are well. I originally was applying for a freelance visa when I arrived, but didnt have the proof of income needed. My boyfriend and I are trying to figure out the details of that currently. Hi Cheryl I replied to you via email! I think you should be okay due to your citizenship and since you are on your way out of Schengen and it was only a couple days. The number is +91 11 2687-36-61 or email consul@embassyofserbiadelhi.net.in. Im missing something in this overstay rule Im so confused! My wife and I are Chinese so we need visa. Is there anyway I can stay the extra three months in Spain? Is Spain the best country to leave from (and avoid a fine/penalty)? He should make sure he exits a southern Schengen country he spent the least amount of time in. So you probably don't even want to think about knowingly violating Schengen. Myself and wife are Indian citizens and entered Belgium on Short Stay C type Schengen visa valid for 17 days stay between 14 Sep and 16 Oct. We landed in Brussels on 20 Sep with stay valid until 6 Oct. Whilst in Gent, Belgium I was hospitalized on 29 Sep until 4 Oct due to medical emergency with Doctors recommendation to extend my visa on medical ground until 12 Oct. On 6th October, I submitted my medical papers, doctors report and request letter to local Municipal office in Gent to extend my stay in Belgium until 12 Oct as per medical advice. But I think you will be fine. Thank you very much! Will being married to an Italian change how the immigration treat me when I am leaving to go home? The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. Hope youre well! On trying to return to the country, she was denied entry. So as far as I know and everything Ive read including EU rules I did NOT overstayed by staying 90 days after my residence permit expired, (I have EU oficial sources that confirms this). You think I could do that? Hi Lindsey, Sounds like a blast. He is looking to come back to the US ( he is a US citizen) but is worried about a fine or worst, jail time. Under my circumstances, can I apply for tourist visa again for other countries? Anyone who overstays their visa might have a problem. If you are denied, you can always try to appeal the decision and continue from there. I think youll be just fine on exit since youre Canadian (sad to say, but where youre from can definitely be taken into consideration). If you are caught on exit, they will put your information in the SIS, which is checked when giving visas and would potentially lead to denial of future visas. Im a US citizen living in Germany as an Au Pair. How much is the fine for overstaying in Spain? If you are caught overstaying, this could affect your student visa application for the fall. Day 13: flight leaving Switzerland. Did they allow you to go back to your country? You can only spend 90 days in Schengen each trip total within an 180 period if your visa allows you to do so. What an adventure you have had ! Wooow Iceland! Please visit the closest Turkish embassy or consulate to discuss acquiring this while in San Sebastian. Thanks so much for providing this space for people to work these kinds of things out because this is really an issue that people can easily panic over, as Ive unfortunately learned. Which means it was illegal in the country. Unfortunately, if you are caught, even mentioning you thought you would get your Irish citizenship in time would not matter to the border control as a reason why you overstayed. Can I travel on the last day of my Schengen visa? I was told to speak to an immigration lawyer as I am also looking to get my residence just not exactly sure what a lawyer could possible have the power to do? I'm Lindsey, and this is my creative space. Now I have applied again but through Greece but I am a little bit concerned or skeptical if there will be any Issue. Would I be on a legal tourist visa? At the airport i was really scared of being banned from returning to the beloved country. Well there is not much he can do in terms of if he gets caught. Let me know if you have anymore questions! Youre right, though its all quite tricky. I am unsure of how this affects my legal status in other schengen countries. My name is Tom from Korea. Hey! Long story short, back in July 2016 at Geneva airport they didnt allow me to enter the country because of overstay visa (10 extra days based on my last visit), they sent me home at the next flight. I wish him luck. You should definitely pay the fine. Hey Jess, probably not, but I had one reader who did get a 10 year ban from overstaying 1 days in Netherlands. I think if you are questioned, you can always just show your expired student visa, and now say you are backpacking for tourism, this shouldnt be a problem for an American citizen. for several reasons i need to go back to the US for the winter, but i want to avoid a ban or detection for te obvious reason of coming back to my home here. Thanks! In frankfurt they said that he overstay for 1 day and its fine ! Was wondering if you have encountered someone who overstayed their schengen visa, left the schengen area without getting/paying a fine or warning from the border officer and was eventually able to successfully reapply for a schengen visa? Good luck, and dont get banned . Best of luck to you! It means, he overstayed already for 4 months. People can be caught in other countries if the guards look at the stamps and do the math but it wouldnt be written down electronically if youve never been caught before or you are in a different country. After the 90 days have passed, non-EU citizens need to leave the bloc (not just move to a different EU country) and wait for at least 90 days before returning. im equally close to france and slovenia. Hey Leia! And even if Im not allowed to be here, what are the risks of traveling by plane within the Schengen area? My visa expires at 11 of December. I happened to randomly stumble across a Shengen-visa-calculator the other day and popped in my dates, just to confirm what I thought was clearly true: HOWEVER, it seems I did not take into account that date of arrival and date of departure count towards the 90 days. I think you should have waited to hear back from the language school, because you cannot change your tourist visa into a student visa within Germany! I would honestly just explain the situation if you are questioned on exit. When we passed through passport control on the way out of Schiphol I was caught. I would like to get some information about this, and with whom should I have contact, in order to avoid troubles. Since passports are scanned on entry and exit to the EU, overstaying is easily detected. Germany is really getting strict these days. She has been studying and has support letter from the college, but no student visa, and she has not tried to get any type of co-habitation visa, and is not working. (I live in Sweden, and its a nightmare without having the tax number in place. I paid the fine and Im a US citizen who has overstayed, flight home is Spain>Norway layover (so Schengen/non-EU)>US, and Im leaning towards letting that one go and buying a direct flight from Portugal home instead to reduce the chances of having problems. ?im currently traveling europe for 6 monthsbut it wasnt until i got here that i heard about the 90 day rule!i thought it was 90 days per countryso at the moment i feel like im fucked! Hey Selene, this sounds like a frustrating situation for sure. you can choose which country to do the request through, https://edps.europa.eu/sites/edp/files/publication/16-11-07_sis_ii_guide_of_access_en.pdf, Thanks! I still have some days left for collection and I want to believe that I will get it Lol. I did ask for an extension called proroga and was approved for the last 3 months; which ends June 8. My advice is to move on with the travel plans and head to UK and Croatia. You can use my calculator to help determine how many eligible days your son has left: http://www.everyoneinbetween.com/schengen-visa-calculator. I plan to have my work contract with dates as well as some other receipts from Austria in case they stop me, but I was just unclear on if I was allowed the tourist visa after my type D expires. 1: Technially, yes, with your EU passport you could stay in Spain longer. But if you can prove you went maybe to Czech or Hungary for a few days (Receipts, hotels, etc) and came back to re-activate your visa-waiver as a tourist, I think you will be fine. Usually countries want you to exit and re-enter to activate your tourist visa. He seemed satisfied, stamped my passport and that was it. Im a US citizen and was in China over the summer while my Schengen visa was processing in my 2nd US passport. Now she has to return to Moscow but we are afraid of what might happen. 3. If you get caught, you can obviously plead ignorance and just say you will be more careful next time. You just should calculate how many days you have spent in the last 90 days outside of Spain in Schengen countries. The fact is the unfortunately the rules were 100% broken by working in Poland without the proper paperwork. Thanks a lot for the kind words! I would stay right where you are and contact your embassy (anonymously) and explain the situation for official direction. if your ideology experiences the free speech of others as existential threat, your ideology sucks.. But I am planning to spend just 3 weeks in Nigeria and come back by November 23rd 2019. When people say their passport was flagged, this means that the border guard noticed the entrance/exit stamps exceeding the 90 days or beyond the given visa. I got a schengen visa last year on the 8th of June, 2017 and it was supposed to expire by 7th of August, 2017 but I was given 30days to be in Schengen zone. I am a US citizen currently in Lithuania where my student visa for Germany (confusing I know) is being processed. Thanks for stopping by. And I read in your post that other countries computers cant communicate with each other but one country can communicate with itself. I am a US citizen who has overstayed the 90 visa in Italy. Q: I have had an investor visa with residence in 2014. thanks, Hello! Its part of the consequence that I warn everyone about on this blog post. If the 3-month extension had 0 effect on the 90 days in, 90 days out rule I would say you are clear to travel out and travel back in. Its probably best to leave from a country you have spent the least amount of time in, like Italy. I was sitting there thinking what a completely ridiculous regulation the Schengen Rule is. Spain Tourism Spain Hotels Spain Bed I agree with your lawyer that you should be fine if you did decide to skip out to Israel, as Spain is one of my top recommended countries to exit Schengen. Some Americans think its better to leave from countries outside the Schengen zone, or even Spain (due to them usually not even checking), but if you do get caught, you can get in a lot of trouble. During the back to USA leg, I am in compliance regarding the 90 in 180 period. 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