Repercussions of denied entry on Schengen zone without a visa

1/22/2017 11:27:40 AM

Having been refused entry once does not change your mother’s legal situation for future visa applications. There is no ban or mandatory waiting period she has to let run before she can apply for a visa again.

However, you should assume that the consular officer processing her application will know that she has once been denied entry, and will therefore apply additional scrutiny to it. (It does not matter that the refusal happened at the German border and she’s applying for a visa to Hungary: expect the Schengen countries to share such information between each other).

In order to manage that risk, she should enclose an honest explanation of the circumstances of the refusal with the future visa application. Even if she is not formally required to make such a disclosure, it will bolster her credibility significantly if she does so up front.

She should take some care to make this explanation as accurate as she can. For example, it shouldn’t be worded as if she thinks the flight from Frankfurt to Budapest was a problem, given that she we refused entry on arrival to Frankfurt, before she had a chance to even attempt to get on the flight to Budapest.

1/22/2017 11:08:30 AM

To put it bluntly, your mother has shown that she cannot be trusted to read and understand the terms of her visa. That is a bad thing. On the plus side, she has a history of Schengen visa and probably did not run into such problems before.

In future visa applications anywhere in the world, if there is the question if she has ever been refused entry elsewhere, she must say “yes.” That does not mean an automatic rejection, but it can lead to higher scrutiny, longer processing times, and a higher probability of a rejection.

The next Schengen visa can be tricky, but if she gets it most of the bad effects will be countered.

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