Timeline for Croatia, passport-free travel: as of 2014, still separate from Schengen Area?
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 17:34 | comment | added | Crazydre | @phoog Not less true of Croatia actually. At the Erdut rail checkpoint they barely look at passports, let alone stamp them. Equally, when I went Osijek-Novi Sad by bus, no Serbs got stamped out. Taking the bus from West/North Europe to Bosnia/Serbia/Macedonia, IME practice is to only get a Slovenian and a Croatian exit stamp outbound from the EU, and a Croatian and a Slovenian entry stamp inbound to the EU. I.e. no Croatian stamp at the Slovene-Croatian border | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 13:33 | comment | added | phoog | @Vince in my experience, land borders in former Yugoslavia are very lax, though I expect that is far less true of Croatia than it was before it joined the EU. Even traveling between Italy and Slovenia (pre-Schengen), and certainly when traveling between Bosnia and Croatia (pre-EU), by car, the officials frequently didn't open the passports, or even take them. I would hold them out and the officer would wave us through. Bus checks were more thorough. One ought to be able to ask for a stamp, though, if needed. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 17:53 | comment | added | Vince | I am actually referring to the experience of my non-European friend that actually needed an exit stamp to prove she ended her student visa. This was all right as she got her exit stamp later on. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 17:30 | comment | added | Relaxed | @Vince Mistakes do happen but third-country nationals should ask for it if needed as a missing stamp can create problems later. But your previous questions suggest you are a French citizen. If that's the case, your passport should not get any entry/exit stamp in EU countries so the exit stamp from Croatia is what would be unexpected for me. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | Vince | This is correct, but crossing the Slovenia/Croatia border by bus in July 2014, our passports were checked but not stamped with exit/entry stamps as expected. However we got exit stamps when leaving Croatia to non-Schengen country. | |
| Oct 12, 2014 at 17:13 | comment | added | Archagon | Confirmed: traveled from Slovenia to Croatia, got an exit stamp from the EU and an entry stamp into Croatia. (Funnily enough, they have exactly the same design.) Thanks! | |
| Oct 12, 2014 at 17:13 | vote | accept | Archagon | ||
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