Travelling from Germany to Sweden without passport.
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Travelling from Germany to Sweden without passport.
Hi,
I am an non-EU national with a residence permit of Germany.
I have to apply for a visa to UK for which I will travel to Berlin next week.
But after that I need to travel to Sweden for a few weeks.
Can I fly to sweden from germany with just a residence permit and no passport ? (since that would be under the visa processing )
If it helps I am taking the air-berlin airlines.
Any information is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jyotika
I am an non-EU national with a residence permit of Germany.
I have to apply for a visa to UK for which I will travel to Berlin next week.
But after that I need to travel to Sweden for a few weeks.
Can I fly to sweden from germany with just a residence permit and no passport ? (since that would be under the visa processing )
If it helps I am taking the air-berlin airlines.
Any information is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jyotika
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Hi,
I am an non-EU national with a residence permit of Germany.
I have to apply for a visa to UK for which I will travel to Berlin next week.
But after that I need to travel to Sweden for a few weeks.
Can I fly to sweden from germany with just a residence permit and no passport ? (since that would be under the visa processing )
If it helps I am taking the air-berlin airlines.
Any information is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jyotika
I am an non-EU national with a residence permit of Germany.
I have to apply for a visa to UK for which I will travel to Berlin next week.
But after that I need to travel to Sweden for a few weeks.
Can I fly to sweden from germany with just a residence permit and no passport ? (since that would be under the visa processing )
If it helps I am taking the air-berlin airlines.
Any information is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jyotika
With carry-on only, self check-in, the chances of your passport being checked by the airline or anyone else drops tremendously -- and in my dozens of flights between TXL to ARN/CPH in recent months, zero passport checks as a carry-on bags passenger who did self-check-in and did print my own boarding pass or used the Air Berlin mobile phone app.
My European residence allowances/cards haven't generally been sufficient for flying purposes when someone has wanted to check the travel documentation requirements and asked me for a passport. YMMV.
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At German airports normally there are no document checks. AFAIR neither in Sweden. If there is, it's the airline and a driver's licence may suffice (I don't know much about the residence permit - if yours look like this, it might do the job, too)
I would do the trip without thoughts, but I'm "at home" within the EU, so my threshold can be lower than foreigners'
Why not make also a photocopy of your passports data page?
I would do the trip without thoughts, but I'm "at home" within the EU, so my threshold can be lower than foreigners'
Why not make also a photocopy of your passports data page?
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At German airports normally there are no document checks. AFAIR neither in Sweden. If there is, it's the airline and a driver's licence may suffice (I don't know much about the residence permit - if yours look like this, it might do the job, too)
I would do the trip without thoughts, but I'm "at home" within the EU, so my threshold can be lower than foreigners'
Why not make also a photocopy of your passports data page?
I would do the trip without thoughts, but I'm "at home" within the EU, so my threshold can be lower than foreigners'
Why not make also a photocopy of your passports data page?
Last edited by GUWonder; Feb 14, 2014 at 5:50 am
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For AB TXL-Scandinavia, the odds are very high that no ID would be checked when flying between the two counties, at least if doing carry-on-only luggage and self check-in on the AB phone app. I'm batting 100% no ID checks by anyone for AB flights from TXL to Denmark or Sweden; and about 100% no ID checks for AB flights from Denmark to Germany. It's Sweden to Germany that is more the wild card, and primarily with what the airline/ground service reps at ARN -- that is where inconsistency in practice would be most evident if evident at all when flying AB.
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Even for NPU country residents of only non-EU/non-EEA citizenship doing intra-NPU international travel, airline reps and non-fixed station national authorities in immigration or customs control positions turn people out sometimes despite having the residence ID card issued by one of the NPU countries.
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I do not know about Nordic countries, but in Germany, the Aufenthaltstitel is NOT a valid ID by itself even though it has everything that any other national ID would have. So, if asked for an ID in Germany (especially by the agents of the state), this e-residence permit will not get you far. I believe the same practice exists in NPU countries as well.
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Jyotika, another thought... flying is no the only way to get from Germany to Sweden. It may take a bit longer, but it's actually fairly easy to get from Germany to Sweden by train (something I am going to to next month, from somewhere not too far from Berlin). There are no ID checks on the train.
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I have done that before, butI am a Danish citizen, so YMMV.
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I love this forum !
You folks try so hard to help
Just checked the train journey.
It will take around 17 hours from stockholm to freiburg (which is fine, I am from India and am used to long train rides).
But it will cost me around 2390SEK ~ 200 euros and thats just one side.
That will be one expensive trip.
You folks try so hard to help
Just checked the train journey.
It will take around 17 hours from stockholm to freiburg (which is fine, I am from India and am used to long train rides).
But it will cost me around 2390SEK ~ 200 euros and thats just one side.
That will be one expensive trip.