Getting passport stamps inside Schengen Area

5/10/2017 6:47:32 PM

Within the Schengen Area, border guards at internal checkpoints aren’t equipped with stamps (instead they check whether a non-EU/EFTA citizen has a current entry stamp), and so cannot stamp you. Such checks currently mostly take place when entering Sweden, Denmark, France or Switzerland by land.

It is possible you could ask the Swiss to put a customs stamp in your passport if you’re stopped for a check, but I have no experience of my own with this.

1/21/2015 12:58:21 PM

I’m a UK national with the EU passport and the border control in Amsterdam and Helsinki have both stamped my passport when I asked them to – they didn’t mind at all and even had a flick through to see all the stamps from other countries.

6/9/2014 9:18:21 AM

Just to clarify for fellow EU citizens that are trying to get “souvenir” stamps in their EU passports:

They don’t stamp your passport because it is against the law to do so! Also, should you manage to get them to do it, you risk having your visa application to another country (say China, Russia, the US, India) refused and being asked to renew your passport due to the “souvenir” stamps which in their eyes render the passport a “fake”.

3/27/2013 4:23:22 PM

With the Schengen agreement internal immigration controls have been abolished. So even if you wanted to get a stamp when crossing say, from Germany in to France, you wouldn’t be able to find someone to do this for you. At many borders the only sign that you are crossing in to a different country is that the quality of the road surface changes.

When travelling within the Schenge area by plane you also don’t pass immigration normally, as Schengen passengers are routed separately from non Schengen passengers at most airport. Post 9/11 there are again identity checks when entering the departure area of an airport, but this is not immigration, those people won’t be able to stamp your passport either. I can remember how in the first years of Schengen I once flew from Brussel to Barcelona without showing any piece of ID at all the whole way… That was what we as were promised then, but alas this is no longer the case.

3/3/2017 10:09:10 PM

Actually while doing a search for the same question I found the exact same question asked on YAHOO

The basic premise of the answer is that according to law a stamp is indicating immigration control of the passport holder, which under the directive linked on the same answer becomes illegal since it prevents free movement of the citizens within the Union’s territory.

So generally immigration control won’t stamp your passport from a member state.

It is quite likely that you can waive your right to no immigration control on the external border but there is no such provision detailed in the border control code.

Credit:stackoverflow.com‘

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