Schengen tourist visa for a Japanese national

1/20/2017 3:19:34 PM

Japanese nationals are exempt from visas to visit UK or Schengen countries.

Here is the official source for UK and Schengen states

1. United Kingdom

Official source: Check UK visa here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y/japan/tourism

You won’t need a visa to come to the UK

2. EU schengen states

Council Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 of 15 March 2001 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32001R0539

Without prejudice to Article 8(2), nationals of third countries on the
list in Annex II shall be exempt from the requirement set out in
paragraph 1, for stays of no more than three months in all.

ANNEX II

Common list referred to in Article 1(2)

  1. STATES

Andorra

Argentina

Australia

Bolivia

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria

Canada

Chile

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Ecuador

Estonia

Guatemala

Holy See

Honduras

Hungary

Israel

Japan

Latvia

Lithuania

Malaysia

Malta

Mexico

Monaco

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Poland

Romania(1)

Salvador

San Marino

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Korea

Switzerland

United States of America

Uruguay

Venezuela

1/20/2017 7:20:56 PM

People often use “visa” to refer to the permission a traveler gets to enter or remain in a country, but in many countries, including those of the EU, a visa is a distinct form of authorization, explicitly not required for certain countries’ citizens. Those citizens get an entry stamp in the passport, not a visa. Japan is one of those countries, so its citizens don’t need visas to enter EU countries.

This regime applies to stays of up to six months per visit in the UK and up to 90 days in any 180-day period in the Schengen area, so at 4 days and 8 days respectively, your friend isn’t even close to the limits.

If you friend were required to get a visa, he’d need a UK standard visitor visa plus a short-stay Schengen visa from Portugal covering his time both in Portugal and the Netherlands. There’s no passport control between Portugal and the Netherlands, but the airline may check for a visa when the traveler shows a passport that requires one. Again, since a Japanese passport doesn’t require one, there will be no problem flying from Portugal to the Netherlands; it’s rather like a domestic flight.

1/20/2017 9:01:03 PM

Japanese tourists don’t need a visa for either the U.K. or the Schengen Area. They just need to present their passport and itinerary. As long as they can show they’re leaving the Schengen Area within 90 days, and the UK within 6 months, and aren’t suspected of visa violations, they should be just fine.

Regarding the UK, visa-free nationals who have been refused a visa in the past from any country, violated any immigration rules, or been arrested, may want to apply for a visa ahead of time. But for 99% of visitors from Japan, this is unnecessary.

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