Schengen visa (for tourism) requirements for an Indian student in the US

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No, your undestanding is incorrect. That sentence is basically a reminder that if your citizenship allows you to enter the Schengen area without a visa, you can still do that while living in the US. In that (admittedly somewhat confusing) sentence, "coming from" simply refers to your citizenship. That's also why it's lumped together with info about dual citizenship.

Generally speaking, being a US resident does not exempt you from any visa requirement to enter the Schengen area (it does for airport transit visas) and where you are entering from does not matter. As an Indian citizen, you therefore need a visa, whether you are presently coming from India, from the US, or from Serbia. The only differences is that you can apply for that visa from the US and probably stand a good chance of obtaining one (as you are already a resident in a high-income country, you have already been vetted and present a lower risk of immigrating illegally).

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