Timeline for Will I be allowed to board if my Schengen visa won't be valid when my flight departs?
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| Jun 28, 2017 at 18:24 | comment | added | R.M. | @FedericoPoloni Note that airline policies are valid even if they're more stringent than underlying legal requirements. If the airline refuses boarding because they have a policy that the visa must be valid at the time of boarding, then there's nothing you can do, even if the receiving country would be fine with it. As visa start/duration is out of the hands of the airline (and nominally in the passenger's control), the airline owes you nothing if you don't follow officially posted requirements. - (Agents misinterpreting the policy is another thing.) | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 18:04 | comment | added | dirkk | @DavidRicherby You are right, can't remember standing with my luggage at an immigration counter either. Sorry, wish I could edit my comment :( | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 18:04 | comment | added | hmakholm left over Monica | @FedericoPoloni: If "can" refers to physical ability, then they can deny you boarding for any good or bad reason, or for no reason. If their reason is sufficiently bad, you may be able to win a legal fight afterwards, but the outcome is still that you won't be flying that day. So it makes sense to take some precautions against such a mistake happening, to the extent you have any precautions to take. | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 17:50 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Can the airline deny you boarding for this reason? If it happened to me, I would demand compensation with every legal way I can. | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 16:05 | comment | added | David Richerby | @dirkk I agree that such a short flight is unlikely to be substantially early. But I'm pretty sure that all the airports I've visited (in Europe, north America and Japan) have required me to pass through immigration before collecting my checked luggage. | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 15:40 | comment | added | dirkk | @IainGalloway A 2 1/2 hour flight being 45 minutes early? This seems highly unlikely to me. Even more, you might have to pick up your luggage and actually go to the immigration counter, which in many airports needs some time as well. And if even after all that you are still there before midnight I guess simply explaining the issue to the border police people will be a non-issue. The worst they will probably do is let you wait until the clock strikes midnight. | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 15:24 | comment | added | Iain Galloway | Do you know what happens if his flight gets in 45 minutes early? | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 12:58 | history | answered | hmakholm left over Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |