Originally Posted by
angatol
I was just responding to the difference between work and business. I'm not talking about who is paying for the trip itself. If you work for company A, or indeed yourself, and go and visit company B in another country and company B pays company A or yourself other than for travel expenses, then that is normally "work" and not "business" for the purposes of a visa.
Lots of people get away with it by travelling, say, to the US on an ESTA and saying they're visiting for business when they're actually a paid consultant for the company in the US, but do it often enough and you'll be refused entry and told to apply for a work visa.
I definitely have known for such things to happen and so hear you on that. Yet as someone with permanent legal residence status in the US and in the EU, the chances of me being refused entry and told to apply for a work visa in the US or EU are something around 0. The point is the questions make things unnecessarily complicated and don't even fit for some of the most frequent flyers to/from the Schengen zone.
Last edited by GUWonder; May 5, 2014 at 2:30 pm