Can I travel to Paris for a day with a single entry visa for Schengen from Switzerland?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 30 Jul, 2023
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Credit:stackoverflow.com‘
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