Schengen Entry....or No?
Sep 7, 2013 | 12:16 am
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Schengen Entry....or No?
I'm perusing random flights for my future plans and I came up on this with Lufthansa: EWR-BRU-FRA-ALA.
On this sort of itinerary, do you have to go through passport control in BRU to get on your plane to FRA, since it's intra-Schengen? Or do you somehow avoid passport control?
Just wondering.
On this sort of itinerary, do you have to go through passport control in BRU to get on your plane to FRA, since it's intra-Schengen? Or do you somehow avoid passport control?
Just wondering.
Sep 7, 2013 | 12:52 am
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Schengen Entry....or No?
You will enter Schengen @ BRU and leave Schengen @ FRA in this itinerary. So indeed you will need to clear Schengen passport control and you will need to comply with Schengen immigration rules.
Sep 7, 2013 | 2:10 am
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Schengen Entry....or No?
I have a similar question, I will travelling with my girlfriend who holds a Thai Passport with a multiple entry Schengen visa. Current I have a award ticket back to BKK as following: ZRH-ARN-BKK. I might change the flight ZRH-LON-BKK. For UK its required a separate visa, if we stay only in transit does it work without UK visa?
Sep 7, 2013 | 4:32 am
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I have a similar question, I will travelling with my girlfriend who holds a Thai Passport with a multiple entry Schengen visa. Current I have a award ticket back to BKK as following: ZRH-ARN-BKK. I might change the flight ZRH-LON-BKK. For UK its required a separate visa, if we stay only in transit does it work without UK visa?
Sep 7, 2013 | 9:00 pm
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I have another question regarding Schengen entry. The first question was about forced Schengen entry. This one is about voluntary Schengen entry: the rules for Germany state that a passport should have 3 months validity. But if one is to enter Frankfurt on a passport with only 1 month validity remaining, but you show immigration that you will be in Frankfurt for only a few hours, would they let you in?
Or does that depend on the politeness of the immigration official? Or is it better to get a short layover instead that doesn't allow for downtown Frankfurt fun?
Or does that depend on the politeness of the immigration official? Or is it better to get a short layover instead that doesn't allow for downtown Frankfurt fun?
Sep 8, 2013 | 4:04 am
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In practice it depends on the mood of the immigration official. If the worst that can happen is that you are refused entry into Germany and told to leave on the flight you were going to take anyway, you might as well try it.
Sep 8, 2013 | 12:16 pm
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I once did something similar to hit a miles target, and the Swiss immigration officer was very suspicious of my reasons for choosing that route. However he relented after noting several Schengen entry/exit stamps as well as numerous UK entry stamps (my final destination on that trip) in my passport.