Extended EU stay?

[Deleted member 84699]

What do you mean by this? If I get on a ferry from Spain to the UK on the 90th day, and my passport is stamped as I exit Spain on day 90, that's fine, right

What do you mean by this? If I get on a ferry from Spain to the UK on the 90th day, and my passport is stamped as I exit Spain on day 90, that's fine, right?

If you turn up on day 90 there's always the question of when does day 90 turn into 91.

Of course the easiest way to avoid any problem is turn up at ferry on day 89 then nothing to worry about.

With regard to fines/consequences of overstaying. It's not quite as simple as a one size fits all fine. Each country has it's own rules and fines and I expect a lot depends on the nature of your overstay. So if you are at the ferry getting on and you've overstayed a few days it won't be as bad as if you were parked up on a beach and had been there for several months too long.

Here's more detail...

What Are the Consequences of Overstaying in the Schengen Area?

Getting a Schengen Visa is never easy. There are a lot of documents you will need to collect and requirements you must meet. There is the interview and then the wait for visa processing. However, once you get the visa, you feel rewarded and convinced everything was worth it. To many, the 90-day...

www.schengenvisainfo.com

 

[Millie Master]

Someone I know is part of quite a large group who are Brits. and have main homes here in the UK, but they spend way more than 90 days at a time in Spain.

From what I have been told by them, the local mayors want the tourism, most especially out of season and somehow or other they sanction an extended stay. I will see if I can find out some more for you.

Phil

 

[Millie Master]

Someone I know is part of quite a large group who are Brits. and have main homes here in the UK, but they spend way more than 90 days at a time in Spain.

From what I have been told by them, the local mayors want the tourism, most especially out of season and somehow or other they sanction an extended stay. I will see if I can find out some more for you.

Phil

I have just received an email back from this bod who is currently over in Florida!

He states that although their local mayor in Spain had thought he could get round the new regulations but it looks like the mayor and surrounding mayors were all wrong and 90 days is 90 days!!!!!!!!!

From their extensive searches (the mayors that is, who are all loosing massive amounts of foreign tourism money) and I quote "a rumoured extended stay tourist visa might become available, possibly later this year."

But as for this immediate moment in time, sorry.

 

[barryd]

I have just received an email back from this bod who is currently over in Florida!

He states that although their local mayor in Spain had thought he could get round the new regulations but it looks like the mayor and surrounding mayors were all wrong and 90 days is 90 days!!!!!!!!!

From their extensive searches (the mayors that is, who are all loosing massive amounts of foreign tourism money) and I quote "a rumoured extended stay tourist visa might become available, possibly later this year."

But as for this immediate moment in time, sorry.

It would make sense. The first country that does that in Western Europe at least will be very popular with British motorhomers thats for sure.

 

[colinm]

I can understand local mayors looking to issue long stay visa's for property owners, don't think any of them will be inclined to see motorhomes in the same light.

 

[Boris7]

Its really not hard to understand the rules, and I understand that many on here dont like it, any more than I do but (and I'm not going to get political here) you just have to live with it guys.

No local Mayor is going to change whats come to be, no more than we can go back and change the process that bought us to this point.

In time the UK may or may not nregotiate some way forward but thats simply not in our control so youll all just need to make the best of a bad situation.

Before anyone reads back through this thread and says "its all right for you, you have an Irish passport" its true I do but I had the right to an Irish passport all my life, and its only since things changed that I took up that right.

Its a poor situation, but we all have to make the best of it as we can.

I'm not even going to finish on a pun, I feel your pain.

 

[Annsman]

Do you mean UK to Spain, then leave Spain on day 90? If so yes. You are allowed 90 days in any 180 in a Schengen Zone Country. You must not go over that 90 days, no matter how many times you enter The Schengen Zone, not The EU and not per country.
A couple of countries said they would allow over 90 days, I think Portugal was one. But to go there by road or rail, you need to go through France or Spain and they don’t allow over 90 days, so you’d be charged.

 

[Annsman]

I can understand local mayors looking to issue long stay visa's for property owners, don't think any of them will be inclined to see motorhomes in the same light.

No mayors of any town, city or region in any Schengen Zone country have any authority to issue any visas! It’s a national govt policy. If you are a property owner you can apply for a residents permit which MAY give you leave to stay in a country, but they are issued by national govt, via the local authority. You can only fly to the country too, and not drive there through another country.