Overstaying Schengen residence permit outside of the issuing country

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The only plausible scenario for enforcement of this rule is for someone living outside the country that issued their residence permit coming to the attention of the police, and the police noticing that they don't have a valid permit. The Schengen area doesn't even track external border crossings of third-country nationals (yet -- they're working on it). They certainly have no system to reconcile hotel reservation records against lists of people with residence permits and type D visas.

The solution to your problem, however, is either to curtail your holiday plans (perhaps by remaining in your country of residence) or to get a type D visa or residence permit to cover your time in Switzerland.

In theory, you could get type D visas for your holiday countries instead, but I doubt you'd be able to do that in practice.

Your "short trips to the issuing country" line of reasoning isn't likely to hold water. Given the way Schengen day counting works, you would need to spend ten full days there to reduce your day count. If you leave Switzerland on Friday and return on Sunday, that counts as one full day (Saturday). So if you did that in ten separate trips, you would leave twenty days of your hotel booking unused. It's not impossible, of course, but it's implausible, and police are unlikely to accept it without evidence.

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Schengen trusts people who receive a national 'D' visa to abide by the rules. This is a necessary consequence of abolishing routine border checks for Schengen citizens.

There are also ways how your violation might caught. There are random checks at the borders which may lead to questions you cannot answer. Hotels (and similar institutions) in many Schengen countries are required to keep records, which may be cross-referenced at a later date if there is reason to do so. When you leave, a customs officer might notice receipts or other evidence. (Not likey that they'd look, but they can if they are getting suspicious.) You may break a leg and go to hospital. You may be a witness to a traffic accident and be asked to give testimony.

If you are caught, your credibility for future Schengen visa applications will be damaged.

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