Overstayed Schengen visa by 1 day because of delayed flight, consequences?

11/2/2022 2:58:18 PM

Any idea what it means?

I am just guessing here, but it looks like BPOLi FRAⅡ. In Dutch it is not uncommon to write a capital i with a dot, so it may be BPOLI as well. BPOL looks a lot like an abbreviation of Bundespolizei (Germany’s Federal Police), the I is probably for Inspektion. FRA in that case is probably Frankfurt or Frankfurt international Airport., where the roman 2 is coming from I wouldn’t know.

10/31/2022 10:31:49 AM

So I’m at airport right now past the passport control. The guy on passport control told me that it’s a criminal offense that I have overstayed and I will need to write a report. He gave my passport to another officer who I followed into the border office. After doing something on the back for 3 minutes he gave my passport back and told me I can go. I couldn’t ask him any questions cuz he left immediately.

Since you indicated in a comment that you never passed through the exit passport control before missing your flight, I believe your assessment that the airline spoke to passport control "so I could travel to the hotel" is inaccurate. At that point you were still in the Schengen area part of the airport, so you did not need to go through passport control to get to the hotel, and you required no special permission to leave the airport.

Rather, it’s most likely that the airline told the immigration authorities that you had missed your outbound flight because their flight was delayed, and that your late exit from the Schengen area the next day would be due to forces beyond your control. The next day, when the officer went to the back to prepare to write the criminal report, he found this information in your records. This allowed him to send you on your way without writing a report.

Since I didn’t have to write a report means that it wasn’t a criminal offense in this case, right? Am I safe? Is this likely to come up next time I try to get a visa?

Yes, if there was no report then there is no criminal offense. You are safe. There should be no consequences next time you try to get a visa.

10/30/2022 9:19:16 PM

FWIW, you will technically be overstaying and violating the visa conditions even if it is because you missed your outbound flight. It is for this reason never a good idea to fully utilize a visa and not plan to leave before the last day of the visa validity.

What will happen tomorrow is very much at the immigration officer’s discretion. Germany does not publish any guidelines for overstay penalties, but is compared to other Schengen countries relatively keen to issue entry bans, even for minor infractions. In theory even a one day overstay can lead to a 5 year entry ban, on the other hand it may just as well be that the immigration officer doesn’t notice that you overstayed or will be satisfied with your explanation and not impose any sanctions at all.

It would be nice if you came back tomorrow after leaving Germany and share with us what happened.

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