Can I travel to Paris for a day with a single entry visa for Schengen from Switzerland?

7/26/2016 3:15:40 AM

Single entry means you are allowed to cross an external border between a non-Schengen country and a Schengen country once (i.e. it refers to the Schengen area as a whole). You don’t need a multiple-entry visa to travel through several countries within the area.

I have recently seen more frequent passport checks for trains to France starting in Geneva but the police was only looking at the ID page, not at visas.

9/17/2015 9:41:02 AM

Answering for the generic case…

There are 650 different ways to arrive/visit/depart two countries in the Schengen zone. This number doubles when single-entry and multiple-entry visas are considered.

France-Germany, Germany-France, France-Italy, Italy-Germany, France-Spain, Italy-Spain, and so on. There are too many of these to deal with on a case-by-case basis.

When three different countries are considered, the number of permutations is more than 15,000!

Regardless of which combination/permutation is selected, the same rule applies… Once you have arrived at a Schengen member and cleared immigration control, there are open borders to 25 other countries. You can visit them or catch a flight home from them.

This answer holds true for all Schengen short-stay visas except those with a specific territorial limitation specified on the face of the visa.

3/20/2013 7:55:29 PM

I added my comment as an answer, since it is more an answer than a comment 🙂

Once you have a Schengen visa, you can travel through all Schengen
countries as you wish. Single entry refers to the fact that you can
enter and leave the Schengen region only once.

3/20/2013 4:44:43 PM

Switzerland and France are both part of the Schengen area. Since you do not exit the Schengen area when you travel from Switzerland to France, you won’t have to re-enter, thus all will be fine.

Single-entry means that you can only enter and exit the Schengen area once, in other words, every trip to the Schengen area needs its own visa.

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