Originally Posted by
GregWTravels
The background: I am a Canadian citizen with a Canadian passport living in the UK under an Ancestry Visa.
My question: How are the 90 days every 180 days under Schengen counted? Is it a rolling 180 days, or is it counted some other way?
By "rolling 180 days," I mean they only look at the last 180 days to determine if you've stayed more than 90. As an example, assume I go into the Schengen area on January 1st and stay for 90 days, leaving on March 31st. I assume that mean I can't enter again until for the next 90 days (June 29th).
Come June 30th, can I re-enter the Schengen, as I would have only stayed 89 days in the last 180? And can I continue to stay, as each day the rolling 180 day window moves, giving me another day?
If it isn't calculated by a rolling 180 days, how is it counted?
Cheers,
Greg
For those who have implemented and follow the EU Schengen rules (and while I could be wrong) -- I'm told it's a rolling calendar basis that is used -- so on the date of your current, past or future stay, you should not have stayed in the zone for more than 90 days in any 180 day period.
In practical terms, if you are close to the limit and the stamps in your passport are not many, they may ask you to demonstrate that you are leaving on time, not overstaying and not violating the terms of entry during the duration of your stay; if you are close to the limit and you have a lot of stamps in your passport, they probably won't care much or otherwise make an issue of it unless you have a passport with the stamps in perfect chronological order and are entering via a country/airport where they are more attentive than at most major hub airports in the EU Schengen countries.