Originally Posted by
sydunipete
My experience is supported by the Article 6 wording and means your son will be ok.
My experience: back in the days before I had an EU passport I travelled on my Australian passport. I spent 90 days under the Schengen visa waiver program. During that time I applied for a Swedish partner visa which gave me 6 months. I contacted my case officer and she said I could go "back to back" with another Schengen waiver period immediately following the partner visa 6 months. To be safe I chose to leave Schengen on the last day of my partner visa and re-enter on the first day of my second Schengen visa waiver period. I had no problems at all.
So my timelines was 90 days visa waiver, 6 months partner visa, 90 days visa waiver. About 12 months in all.
If your son has a case officer he should contact them for confirmation.
Oy. He has a long stay visa issued by the Greek consulate in US. No case officer. But I’ve moved everything around to accommodate the visa expiry. My only anxiety now is that something will happen on the day of departure to IST bc it’s his last visa day. I guess at that point they will just ignore since he will have a ticket out. But good grief this has a total nightmare consuming hours and hours to rebook everything.