Re-entering Schengen Area before expiration of my Swedish visa
Upvote:2
It is in practice unclear whether one needs to leave and re-enter the Schengen area in order to continue traveling in the area as a tourist after the expiry of a national long-stay visa or residence permit.
Reading the actual Schengen regulations, I cannot find anything that implies such a requirement. However, several people have independently related on this site that they were told by border/immigration officials they would need to do to that. So it would appear that, at the least, there's a risk that if you don't make a visa run, you may run into trouble when you leave the Area because you run into a border guard who thinks you need to do it. Perhaps the trouble would be cleared up when their superior gets involved, perhaps not.
In any case, the only halfway reasonable purpose of requiring a visa run would be to get an entry stamp in your passport that marks the beginning of your stay not under the residence permit. Thus, as long as you enter the Schengen area at another country than Sweden and do not actually go to Sweden, I think even confused border guards ought to allow starting the 90/180 day count at that day, even if your Swedish residence permit was still valid at that time.
Of course, you should also be sure to follow the actual 90/180 day rule, which says that every day where you have been in a Schengen country other than Sweden counts, no matter whether you went there from Sweden or indirectly.
More post
- 📝 Is there anywhere to get a haircut at Miami International Airport?
- 📝 Freedom of movement for family of EU citizen - applying for a free visa
- 📝 If Wall Street (in Bryce Canyon) is closed, can I still hike Queens Garden & Navajo Combination?
- 📝 How long before expiration can one renew a French passport?
- 📝 Is the Marseille-London Eurostar service operated by Class 373 or 374 trains?
- 📝 Transit visa at Toronto Airport
- 📝 Is travel insurance valid if the flight dates got rescheduled by the Airline?
- 📝 Does being the spouse of a US citizen help a non-EU citizen obtain a Schengen visa?
- 📝 Fire extinguishers inside the coaches of long distance trains
- 📝 Is a 50 minute layover in Manchester Airport enough?
- 📝 What country of residence should I put in the Incoming Passenger Card if I have moved countries after my Australian visa was granted?
- 📝 Should I book with a Vueling flight although its previous flights have been canceled?
- 📝 What to see in Kobe and Tokyo?
- 📝 Is it possible to enter Australia with a temporary Polish passport?
- 📝 Can I purchase/activate SIM card around Poznan Glowny station after 20:00?
- 📝 Lost and found in Brussels airport?
- 📝 Taxis from Heathrow with a lot of luggage
- 📝 Do "Magic Bars" exist outside of Japan?
- 📝 Where can one view the time of the day of one's entries and exit to/from the United States?
- 📝 What regularly-occurring event do the most people travel for every time it is on?
- 📝 Is there any website where I can select the itinerary of my flight?
- 📝 Does a Moldovan citizen require a visa to travel to India?
- 📝 How far can you realistically travel across potentially rough water in an inflatable dinghy?
- 📝 Book flight within Canada on US airline
- 📝 Sending unaccompanied bag from one German City to Another by Train
- 📝 Can I (UK citizen) enter the US if I stop over for 14 days in the Caribbean?
- 📝 Is it necessary to book a hotel in advance in Baguio, Philippines during May/June?
- 📝 What is the rationale for requiring White House tours be scheduled through a member of Congress?
- 📝 Can I use a chinese s2 visa for tourism?
- 📝 GRU (Guarulhos) Check In without going through Immigration (Terminal 3)
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Re-entering Schengen Area before expiration of my Swedish visa
- 📝 Entering Schengen area 5 days before the Visa date starts
- 📝 Do I have to leave the Schengen area if I have a short term (C) visa that will expire right before my National Visa (D) officially starts?
- 📝 Traveling in Schengen area before going to the country that my type D visa is for
- 📝 Applying for Schengen Visa. My UAE residence visa will expire before 3 months from the day of departure from the Schengen area
- 📝 Can you stay in Schengen area for longer than your visa expiration date?
- 📝 Transit entry into Schengen Area minutes before Visa is valid
- 📝 Arriving in a transit airport in Schengen area the night before the effective Visa date
- 📝 Schengen Visa application while my UAE residence visa will expire before 3 months from the day of departure from the Schengen area
- 📝 Can I enter the Schengen area a few days before my student visa expires?
- 📝 Entering US a few days before B1/B2 visa expiration date
- 📝 Staying in the Schengen Area after the permitted days of entry but before the visa expiry
- 📝 passing a night in a transit airport in Schengen area the day of expiration of my visa
- 📝 Can I leave the Schengen area and then enter again 9 days before my visa expires?
- 📝 Can I enter the Schengen area if my visa period is valid before the 180 day rule
- 📝 Long-term visa expiration + Count towards Schengen tourist days?
- 📝 Does my EU residence card count as a Schengen visa for the purposes of entering Argentina visa-free?
- 📝 Traveling to the US on the VWP before entering with a J1 visa
- 📝 Schengen Visa Expiration
- 📝 When to visit both the Schengen area and the UK, which visa should be obtained first?
- 📝 Dutch Residency Visa and Schengen Area Travel (Czech Republic)
- 📝 Entering the Schengen area after being told I can't return to Spain
- 📝 UK visit visa extension before entering the UK
- 📝 UK Issued 1951 Blue Travel Document - Can you travel throughout Schengen without a visa if entering a visa free country?
- 📝 Can Schengen visa be issued 1 month before the start of its validity date?
- 📝 Entering Schengen countries with a valid visa which will expire in 10 days
- 📝 Documents required for re-entering Schengen area on multiple entry visa
- 📝 Can I stay in Schengen area after my visa expires if I enter while the visa is valid?
- 📝 American Allowance in Schengen Area vs Having a Schengen Visa in Schengen area
- 📝 Leaving the Schengen area (Finland) on the last day of visa validity