Originally Posted by
thijsseh
As most people have said, its a 'rolling' 180 days. Although I have a passport from a Schengen country, mrs t does not so we have made a spreadsheet which shows us exactly what the 'current count' is. I recommend you do this (its very simple but if you want mine, PM me and I can send it to you).(and if the one-day CPH visit had anything to do with the Schengen rule story, then dont bother, it just costs money!)
Originally Posted by
soitgoes
The 90/180 period is *rolling*/continuous. It does not "reset" (the only thing that has the effect of a reset is 90 days out of Schengen).
From what I know and I have been told this clearly by my company too, the 180 day period
starts on 1st entry into schengen area and 90 days stay should be in that 180 day period.. AFAIK, its
not on a rolling basis..
I give example of what I understand is the way its calculated..
15th Feb -- Arrive in copenhagen stay for 1 day.. ( ur 180 day period starts)..
180 day period expires on 13th August..
16th feb - leave for london.. days used in schengen (1/2 out of 90 in 180 days)..
1st april -- arrive in eastern europe in schengen country.. stay for 10 days..
11th april -- travel to non schengen country in eastern europe.. ( days in schengen become 11/12 out of 90 in 180 days)..
1st may -- arrive in greece stay for 10 days then again leave to non schengen..( days in schengen become 21/22 out of 90 in 180 days)..
15th July -- re--enter schengen area, stay till 10th august....( days in schengen become 45/46 out of 90 in 180 days)..
AFAIK, if u come back on 15th August or continue ur last trip onwards from 14/5th august, ur 180 days period restarts..I believe this is because of ur 1 day stay in CPH else ur 180 day period would have started on 1st april..
So IMHO, stay in CPH is beneficial but I have seen others writing to the contrary here..
Basically from what I know, u stay 1 day ( say 1st jan) in schengen then come back after say 150 days ( say 1st june).. then we can stay more than 90 days at a stretch if we have a multiple entry 1 year or more schengen visa..since the 180 day period gets reset on 30th june for them..
Originally Posted by
B747-437B
Your interpretation is correct. However, please keep in mind that different Schengen states have slightly different interpretations of how to calculate the 90 days. Some only use day of arrival and not day of departure (hence arrival Sunday departure Monday = 1 day), while others calculate both arrival and departure (hence arrival Sunday departure Monday = 2 days). So if you are coming very close to the 90 in 180 limitation, I would suggest you use the latter interpretation to be on the safe side.
+1 in my view..