I just got a job and dont want to have to decline it! I got a resident permit that expires in 2019. But we just discovered that Im pregnant and that my 90 days in the EU have come to an end We decided to keep the baby. Since I intend to keep coming bak in the future (my fiance is here) I would like to make sure that this will not affect my arrivals in the future. Thanks!! Sally says she is making every effort to be a law abiding citizen but I think from her many questions on the subject of Schengen that she wants to be a law- skirting citizen. Working illegally, however, is another issue. I see where it says that in their information. When I first booked our tickets, I understood that it as 90 in each country, so this puts us entering France on June 13 and leaving from Italy on Sept 28. 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. Any advice? If there is a place on the form to explain what happened, I would explain exactly what you wrote here about the flight being cancelled. But however topsy-turvy the world has become, there are still limits on how long certain groups can stay in the country. I wish to visit Germany via bus for language purposes but from your above comments, its sounds risky and will affect long term objectives. 12-day overstay. The number is +91 11 2687-36-61 or email consul@embassyofserbiadelhi.net.in. You cannot arrive in the EU and then apply for a visa as a way to extend your stay. In case of a prison sentence of 6 months and more Direct flights are available from Madrid to many major US cities for ~$1100-1500. WebAdd a Comment. Thanks for writing in. This topic has been automatically closed due to a period of inactivity. I am curious what i need to do to be in Europe as part of my 90 days in 180 days tourist visa, and not in legal limbo from my Spanish job. If you are denied on a basis of your overstay, then you can just appeal and explain your situation, and hope they will agree. keep up the great work and thank you again for you input! I plan to travel back for the holidays and be in Germany on the 4th of November which will have allowed more than 180 days since I arrived there in may. In the past, I accidentally overstayed by 3 days but flew out from Madrid just fine. I recently wrote an article about the reinforced border controls, and Germany is on it. Im looking for a second opinion on this. Hello there! I appreciate you writing this blog. I wish you the best of luck, and let us know what happens. How will the immigration officers know if its expired or not? Also, did you get anything in writing about you asking if overstaying your visa for the appointment was ok? Hey! Just some advice on which of these options makes the most sense to you. You will then have to wait in your country for the approval and visa in your passport before you book tickets. Hey! However, the issue right now is not that you overstayed (because you do have your resident visa for Germany) but your fiances tourist visa has expired so the issue is with him, really. I am going to be leaving out of Madrid after a overstay on a tourist visa for 3 months. Hope you are well. This does sound like a different situation. Went through no problem in Iceland. So really overstaying is not a good choice if you can avoid it. Im Jackie from Mexico and Ive seen a similar situation in your blog but when you replied I was kind of confused by the answer. Iam stressed about what the passport control officer will ask me since i plan to travel back to my country this october 2017 i have overstayed my tourist visa and am stranded but i have money to buy my ticket i need some advise on how to get my way through without problem or how i can get out without detention. Its her passport, her visa, and her responsibility! My advice would be to make sure you leave before June 10th, which is when your visa officially expires, and also be prepared if they ask you questions on exit. Otherwise, you will need to keep and/or seek all the paperwork from the doctor if you end up staying and waiting for your decision. If she were to be caught on exit from Schengen, she simply can show the letter from SEF (only if she departing from Portugal), and explain everything. I hope you are feeling good now. REVEALED: More than 2,800 Brits ordered to leave European countries since Brexit, BREXIT: UK says significant progress in Gibraltar talks with Spain. What are my chances of getting out of here? Hi Lindsey, Hope this helps a bit? Hi Lindsey, The thing is that, I was crossing border 5 times within my current visa exceeding 60 days every last 180 days, out of 5 I was notified last time. That Schengen country can bust you for overstaying Schengen (since you would be outside Poland) and not even let you inside THEIR country. Glad to help! You think I could do that? If we ( all us western countries) had no regulations there would be some pretty dire consequences when you think of people who would simply be immigrating here and there as they wished.. with no proof of support.. and having the place they land in having to take care of them. You can use my Schengen Calculator if you need to calculate the stays: First of all, I would like to thank you for your amazing work Lindsey. I mean, they COULD risk it, but would have to show the border guard all the paperwork on exit and entrance and hope for the best. Good luck, Rao! READ ALSO: OPINION Neither Spain nor the EU are to blame for some Britons having to leave. You will not enjoy your life till you get a stamp passing through guard. Thankfully, I had no problem exiting, but Im not sure if this is because my entry and exit out of Schengen were different, I entered through Iceland and exited from Amsterdam or if it was just overlooked. Even after going through all of this worry? So in the future it is always important that she keeps up with statuses of third-parties (your dads company) when it comes to someone handling her legal status. I highly suggest if the guard says nothing, take it as luck, and to make sure to return with a plan of legality within your visa. 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Hi Shamim, you cannot change your tourist visa into a work visa while in the country. Im in a bit of a predicament as Ive overstayed for a long while. Hope this helps! Also I've been advised to leave through France. Anyway, for your current situation, I think youll be fine because youve stayed out for at least 4 months. Anyone who overstays their visa might have a problem. Hey Lor! Appreciate the work you do, it helps a lot of people get through confusing / scary situations . So, basically he has overstayed for a week and then he applied (which i tried to ask around and found, one is not elligible to apply for the extension if he/she runs out their validity). Once your type D visa (student) has expired, the EU rules do give you a right to stay for another 3 months following the expiry of your type D visa in other Schengen countries provided you have not traveled to another Schengen country in the previous 6 months. Cant wait! Whether you get caught or not really depends on the border control agent and if they are familiar with the extension rules and Schengen law. However, I have a slightly different scenario and I was wondering if you would know something about it. I had to head back to the U.S. unexpectedly and left Spain on the day my visa expired. Hi, Im hoping that the more new stamps I can get before reentering the schengen will make my passport less likely to be discovered. Get it? Flying out of GVA to Toronto through London (one-way ticket) on Sunday. When I again demand that he put it well he is already angry and tells me that if I do not want to pay a very high fine I should leave and go my way. Hey George. But my visa already expired since may2017, so I decided to going back to my country and officially married there and going back to Belgium again after married. But also, 48 days overstaying is almost double a typical 90-day Schengen tourist visa. but my husband and i want to apply for family reunification now in denmark using my new passport since he is also turkish living in denmark. My advice for you is to leave the country as soon as possible and research methods of securing proper visas and apply outside of Spain. Thanks a lot for your prompt response. I really scared now that they will reject me to get tourist visa or spouse visa if I get caught on airport and get ban to return to Belgium again. But I was actually not allowed to enter Sweden while my visa was pendingso you might not be allowed to enter Austria before you actually receive the visa. , Hi i need help i travelled to France on a type C visa and they days of stay were 10 but i moved to sweden since 17 january 2017. I was out of Schengen zone for a couple of weeks and returned back, again arriving through Brussels. Since your partner is Polish have you thought about looking up marrying a Polish citizen? Hey Qiongyi. If you want to speak more, feel free to email me via my contacts tab. My visa expires at 11 of December. I visited Germany on business visa. No problems what so ever. Thank you very much. I traveled Sweden in 2015 for 26 days and exit before my visa expired (with tourist visa). Hallo if i enter france by my American passport and stay in europ for two years or more is the punishment will be the same when i leave france to prevent me to enter Europe for 5 years or there will be something different. What do you think the problem I can face on my way out? Your loved one will have to be on a legal visa if they want to switch to a work/resident visa while in the country, so if she chooses to overstaythen that wont work out very well. If Spain is like most other European countries, you probably cannot be in Spain (especially on an expired tourist visa) while the visa is processing. I personally think you will be fine. 92 days. Thank you so much for your help Lindsey:). I finally was able to get an appointment coming up on the 21 of June, but I was wondering is there any way I can fix my expired visa before I leave Spain even with me overstaying my days in Europe. Now I need to go to Spain. My husband was on a B1, which allows 6 months to stay and left after 3 months, and returned about 1 month later, and they detained him at the airport for 2 hours asking why he came backand he was legally allowed to do so. One was a college student who was caught at the Brussels airport when leaving for home. Americans can stay 6 months in UK as a tourist. Since 2015 I never applied for schengen visa although I have been travelling to China and so on but not to any Schengen suburbs. Otherwise, you need to apply for a family reunion (type D) visa before you leave India, and enter on that. My advice is to move on with the travel plans and head to UK and Croatia. However, you should probably contact your student abroad center or even the American consulate for an exact answer. Please write me your thoughts and it might be last question from my side . Cheers! Usually, extension visas for tourists are only for medical reasons which would allow the person not to travel, and requires a doctor letter. She cannot keep entering on a tourist visa if there are chances she might overstay. WebIf you leave Spain, you may be registered as having overstayed the 90-day period by Spanish immigration. My name is Julius and I am from Nigeria. The penalty was a complete ban on entry to the EU for 5 years. I entered through France (husband is French), so theres no record of me in Greece. But travel with caution, because if Finland found out you left, it could be an issue. I just wanna visit Oslo for a weekend trip coz my partner will celebrate his birthday next weekend. (90 days rules) I respect the laws they required and fortunately I have been luckiest person in the world. Thanks for stopping by and telling your story. I wish you the best of luck and health! So, for my readers, it is correct that you can enter Montenegro if you have a valid U.S. visa? questions: So, I am not really sure if what you did at the immigration office would have granted you a SSN. So since 6 months ago, I stopped renewing my student visa because I found it quite pointless and not conductive to my progress. Its part of the consequence that I warn everyone about on this blog post. There are a lot of direct flights from non-Schengen to non-Schengen, so she doesnt have to make some convoluted flight path. Anyway, wish me luck on my way back home I just want to go back to my Boston . Just make sure you do not go over 90 days again! My French partner and I want to get married before that (in Denmark as its a hell of a lot less paper work). I would be flying Vienna-Frankfurt (45 min stopover) and then to Bilbao. 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. We were flying directly from Rome to Romania because I got a job teaching at a Montessori school in October. Your U.S. friend can stay 6 months as a tourist in U.K, and if you combine that with going in and out of Schengen countries, like Croatia, they could technically beat the system of 90 days. Hi, I am from Colombia and I am currently doing an internship with a company in Austria. I booked my ticket using Emirates so that I can avoid Schengen/European gates. I think youll be fine, only because of your citizenship could allow you to get away with it. When exiting the officer said nothing, just stamped the exit stamp with date. When we made the application for the long stay visa we specified that we would be traveling by car as serbia is on the border of romania[cheaper] Hi Fahim! Hi Ally This sounds like a tricky situation. If so, I would try to exit through a southern country (Spain, Italy, Greece). If you were on a working visa in Jan 17, and have been stuck in limbo while you wait for your new work visa to process, then you probably cannot leave France or withdraw your application and still have the right to be in France. Best of luck! Ill take a look again at options out of Portugal. Thank you for such a resourceful blog. 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. 2.The border should know I over stay in Schengan more than 90 days, does it mean I already had bad record in my passport? Don't do it. Or can I use the two weeks (or even just a few days) remaining out of the 90 to travel a bit before flying back? My question is, because she was convinced I overstayed for 10 months and seemed to have mercy by just letting me pass without making me sign any document or paying a fine or putting a banned stamp in my passport, I still dont know How can I be sure she didnt flagged me on the system I mean on her computer, I really try to remember if she scanned my passport or not, Im almost sure she did not but than again Im not really sure how and where officers do this, if they do it like a credit card . Hello there! But if I leave Poland directly to the USA then it falls under the terms of bilateral. Visa Date: 21.06.19 to 03.09.19 (60days) I do know a bit of German, so that could be helpful. Also, American consular officials are pretty smart and careful. I have a good job in the US, and have to maintain my residency here as well, so I would NEVER purposely overstay as I have a life here too. When we passed through passport control on the way out of Schiphol I was caught. You could have traveled by car and no one stamped your passport. This is how to check overstay fine in UAE: [1] Step 1: Go to this page of the Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs & Port Security website. If I was not stopped during exit on the first trip, would they do anything about it during the entry / exit during the return trip? I asked him if I wanted to go back to Europe, I could have problems and he said no. I think you should apply for the reunification, and see what happens from there. If they deny you due to lack of proof for overstaying, there is not much you can do since the visa was overstayed willingly for such a long time. If they say something is the case, then it probably is, and they told me that two offices in the Romanian government gave them this information. Let me know if you have anymore questions! If yes, you violated your bilateral. Thank you for ur suggestions. Im an American who over stayed 9 months in the Netherlands from june 2017 to June 2018. HOWEVER, you actually traveling to Spain during this time might seem a bit odd because you were able to move about during Corona, so why didnt you go home?Id say be careful on this one and do not disregard your visa rules if you want to return and make a life in NL or Spain. Were you even allowed to work on a student visa? Hey Tyler! So I left. Sorry to hear of your holidays cut short from medical issues. Here is information about it: http://www.vfs-italy.co.in/delhi/familyreunionvisa.html. https://www.visit-montenegro.com/downloads/REGULATION_ON_THE_VISA_REGIME.pdf, It says us visa holders or schenghen can visit up to 7 days. Get it in writing! Well, the lawyer was correct in saying you could have apply for a residence permit based on EU Law in having an EU citizen as a husband, but you had to do with before your 90 days were up. Will I have difficulty entering the country? If he gets caught, it is better to get caught while leaving Schengen because they cant deport when the person is at the airport on the way out. He wont be facing jail time for overstaying (of course, if he is caught working illegally, this is a different story). Both times they told me that because no action had been taken when I overstayed, as long as Id been out for 90+ days, going back in should be no problem. Hey Alex! Also, thanks for sharing your story. and is there a way to waive the ban off? Anyway, do you see any potential options for us? There dont seem to be any direct flights from Lisbon to Croatia without layovers in a Schengen airport). Im in the process of applying for the visa and gathering all the necessary documents to make my appointment, but it says on the immigration website that it could take up to six weeks to issue a student visa, which would surpass my legal stay in the EU. We were planning on renting a car and going to several of the non Schengen countries like Montenegro, Albania, Croatia, etc. 2 years ago. Unfortunately, your wife doesnt really have authority to tell the immigration board when she will or will not leave she has no authority to do so, regardless of if the kids are in school (remember, they are there illegally as well). They will most likely slide it through a scanner, and then flip through the pages to find your entrance stamp and see where youve been. Hi Lindsey, This involves me being illegal here for 9 months. Its not the UK that would catch you (because they are not Schengen), it is exiting Schengen from Spain where you overstayed by 7 months! 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