Hot answers tagged schengen
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My family and I had our passports stolen 2 days before we weres supposed to return home from Portugal to the UK - so we spent a day in the British Consulate (yes, all day) to get emergency passports (good for one use only - to get us back to the UK on our scheduled flight) and then we had to sort out new ones - which took a full day at the Passport Office in ...
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Since you are a citizen of the European Union you do not need a visa to travel to any other EU country. UK is not part of the Schengen Area, so you only need a passport (or national identity card) to cross the border and that's it.
From Wikipedia:
Individuals from the following countries can enter the Schengen Area, Bulgaria,[3] Cyprus,[4] and Romania[5] ...
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Ireland is part of Common Travel Area that comprises the islands of Ireland, Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, but according to Wikipedia:
Unlike the Schengen Agreement, the Common Travel Area provides no
mechanism for the mutual recognition of leave to enter and remain, and
the United Kingdom and Ireland operate entirely ...
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Precautions:
Keep some spare cash, credit card, and ID separate from what you are carrying, if possible.
Carry a photocopy of your passport and other important documents with you, separate from the originals.
Leave copies of these important documents with a dependable friend or relative. (Mouviciel's idea of using dropbox is great.)
Register with your ...
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When preparing your flight, get all your documents scanned (passports, visas, e-tickets) and keep copies with you and people travelling with you. Leave the pdf files on the internet in a place where you will be able to reprint them abroad (a gmail account, or a dropbox directory for instance).
That way, getting new/emergency documents will be easier at your ...
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If you lose your passport while traveling, contact your nearest consulate immediately. They will usually be able to provide you with a temporary document that's at least good enough for you to travel back home. Getting a temporary passport might take relatively long compared to a short trip, but a few days at the worst, not the usual delay in getting a ...
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I assure you, as a UK Citizen you're a member of the EU, and can travel anywhere in that area without restriction. Travelling to France is Easy - you can fly, train, or take the ferry, and as long as you have your passport with you, or national ID card, you'll be absolutely fine.
Schengen is for people from other countries who may need a vetting process ...
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I have the following information:
The maximum length of stay in Europe for non European Union passport
holders is determined by the Schengen accord and is currently limited
to 90 days within any 180 day period. The important thing to note is
that you may not leave the Schengen Visa area for a day and return to
restart the 90 day clock. In other ...
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After some inspection and asking few crew members. It turns out that if you enter any country within the Schengen area as a crew member then you can move within the Schengen area. Make sure you have your passport and a copy of the crew members General Declaration.
UPDATE:
I went to Amsterdam and came back, I asked the police at the station in Paris and he ...
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There is a relatively simple and cheap option for those who don't want the rigours of a freighter and don't have the skills to crew a yacht. That is to take a repositioning cruise on a normal cruise liner. These get sold off very cheap, since it's basically fifteen days on a cruise ship without stopping at the interesting islands and tourist spots that ...
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UK is not part of the Schengen Agreement and therefore a Schengen visa as such does not allow you to enter the UK. According to official rules published by the UK Border Agency, Russia falls under the list of countries that require a visa before you can enter the UK.
However, this only applies for longer stays. If you simply wish to transit through the UK, ...
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There are no systematic border controls within the Schengen area. There are occasional spot checks, but the odds are low. Note that the UK is not in Schengen; if you want to travel there, your passport will be checked in both directions. If you travel by plane, an airline employee will usually check your passport; if your visa is not valid, you may be denied ...
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Poland is now in the Schengen border-free zone so there should not be any border check at all.
As noted in the comments, you will still need a valid ID to fly, but that is generally true even on domestic flights in Europe. It is purely for the sake of air security. That said, it is always best to have your passport when flying within Schengen as it is the ...
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You can enter any country within the Schengen area (25 countries) with no problems. Check the Schengen visa website. I have done that personally before.
Anyway, Out of personal experience, German immigration are not really friendly with this idea. Once in Frankfurt they refused the entry of a friend to the country because she had her visa issued from the ...
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Yes. In fact you can obtain the form online both in English and Russian.
Then follow the process on how to decide which consulate to apply to - but since most of them are in London, you should almost certainly be able to visit one of those, or adjust your plans slightly so that you first enter a Schengen country which DOES have a consulate in London :)
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OK, so now that I've seen the clarification...
Having travelled through a lot of these countries, let's just go with the list of them:
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, ...
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From the linked article:
Because Denmark is a Schengen member, it cannot reinstate full frontier controls and the minister said the new measures would "take place within the limits of Schengen".
So yes, you can still visit Denmark with your Schengen visa and you don't need additional documents. The only thing that's extra is that you can be checked by ...
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Quick answer - no, you will not require a transit Visa.
Longer answer - a Schengen visa allows you to enter any country in the Schengen area. In your case you will use it to enter the Schengen area in Frankfurt. Once you've entered Germany there is no passport control for flights to other Schengen countries, so you will NOT pass through immigration when ...
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The two main options that I am aware of are:
The Queen Mary 2, the only regular transatlantic passenger line,
Freighter travel, which is not cheap either.
I would not be surprised if you could join a crew aboard a luxury yacht in Monaco going to the Caribean for the winter. For example, Cruisers forum has a Crew wanted section. In that case, you get ...
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If you hold a UK passport, then you hold a EU passport. You can legally live, work, travel and holiday in any other EU country for as long as you like, without requiring a visa.
The UK (along with Ireland and some others) are not in Schengen (some countries are in Schengen but not the EU (like Norway)). Schengen is only to make things much easier at ...
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This sad measure is a populist political one. The plan is to selectively check people crossing the border in order to reduce the amount of illegal immigrants.
As a tourist, you will probably not notice the difference, unless you happen to come from an Eastern European or North African country.
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I think you may be looking at the wrong form.
As I understand it, as a US passport holder, you're allowed to spend up to 90 days in any 6 month period in the Schengen area without needing a visa. See Visa for European countries when traveling from the U.S.
To go beyond that, you generally need a long stay visa (typically in the form of a residents permit) ...
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Either will work. A Swiss tourist visa is for the following activities:
Tourism trip
Visits to relatives and/or friends
Scientists, professors or researchers attending cultural, technological or scientific conferences, seminars or meetings (services provided must not be paid by organizations/corporations in Switzerland, except reimbursement for expenses or ...
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This totally depends on the country, each country has different rules. Wikipedia has a page dedicated to Knife legislation. Check the countries you will visit before brining your knife with you.
Same thing goes for pepper spray, it is different from one country to another, again Wikipedia has a page dedicated to pepper spray.
Stun guns are a bad choice as ...
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I think as in almost all visa applications it is not necessary to really cross the border at the specified date. It is only important do not enter before or leave after the date range. So I would specify the date the plane leaves.
Edit: Ok I saw you're leaving the zone. In this case, I would at least specify an extra date on your visa, so that you have some ...
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Firstly, where are you going? You want to visit the one country or some number of them? You should note, that there is no such thing like Schengen visa. You can only get visa to the country in Schengen. So, first of all, you must select the one country you will be most time in. Note that different countries have their own requirements to the tourists.
And ...
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The Schengen Agreement is an agreement between several states that created the Schengen Area within which there are little or no border or visa controls.
STATI Schengen in Italian means "Schengen countries", so those countries that are part of the Schengen Area.
You can find a list of these countries here.
I guess your Visa is stating that you can visit ...
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Where you're from is likely irrelevant. Overstaying is overstaying, you're not going to get treated more harshly or kindly because of who your president/king/prime minister is.
There's a great piece "Overstaying Schengen visa" that is relevant to this.
Consequences of overstaying
This could result in a:
no consequence - if you're lucky, and this will ...
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If there is a credit card in her name it is easy to just put money on it, get a bank statement as proof that she has enough credit-card funds for her portion of the traveling. This is what my friends have done.
You cannot choose sponsor as far as I can tell, because a sponsor is a company or person resident within the Schengen area. If you do know a person ...
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Three weeks ago I was on the train from Irkutsk (Russia) to Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia). A Canadian in my cabin had his visa finish on the 10th (same date as the departure of the train). Unfortunately it's a long train ride, and you don't actually cross the border the same day - meaning we crossed on the 11th, and as the border guard said solemly - "There is ...
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