I'm totally confused by the calculator and timid regarding purchasing my tickets. Would someone familiar with the system answer?     recent stay:                       8/15/17 - 9/6/17   spain  23 days       planning extended visit to portugal:     11/30/17 - 2/4/18  PT 67 days   Is this a legal stay? Both trips are just using my USA passport.  I have used three different online calculators and the official EU one is confusing on the terminology.
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I have searched the web a lot and could not find an answer that fits my situation. Here are two links that are quite contradictory:       My situation:  I've visited Portugal in December 2012 for 29 days on a Schengen visa valid from December 1st, 2012 to February 1st, 2013 for research purposes (I am a Ph.D. student). I want to visit Sweden from February 10th, 2013 to May 10th, 2013 (89 days). I have applied for a Schengen visa again (for research). How will the 90/180 rule work in my situation?
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I want to travel to the USA (I am UK Citizen) and I am only allowed 90 days.  Is it possible for me to stay longer - say 6 months to a year, and how?
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I am planning on traveling to Europe in two months. However, I could not find any appointments for Schengen C visa for the next two and a half months.  Is there any way around this? What's the probability of me getting this visa? It would be a shame if I have to call off my vacation because of visa appointments not being available, or if I have to change my itinerary to include a country where there is a visa slot.
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I have applied for a Schengen visa in the Consulate of Italy. I will be visiting for a 2 month period to attend a dance workshop. However, I plan to visit my boyfriend twice. He is studying in Germany currently and we made plans to meet up while I'm there. I will be visiting for a week or so both times. I did not put this in my itinerary. Will I still be able to visit?   Also, I just made some random hotel booking on booking.com in order to apply. Can I cancel those bookings and book an accommodation elsewhere if I want, once I get the visa?
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I've travelled a lot.  Living in New Zealand or the UK means anywhere is likely a flight, but I've always flown economy.  Twice between LA and Auckland I managed to get the exit row after talking nicely to the check-in girl, but apart from that, nothing.  I've spoken to ticket agents, tried 'check in chicken' (where you wait until the last minute before checking in, hoping there's an overbooking of economy) but have never managed to get an upgrade, while others I know seemingly get them quite often.  What strategy have you used or do you suggest to achieve this?  My next flight is from Melbourne to Tokyo, and I plan on trying all of these ;)  (Related questions on  and  upgrades)
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I have a Schengen visa valid from 19/07/2016 to 10/08/2016. But the duration of stay is 7 days only.  I want to stay for 6 days more, for a total of 14 days. And my flight includes travel from a Schengen state to another.
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My husband has a Chinese passport and I am a U.S. citizen; I don't need a visa to travel to Schengen countries. I am helping him to apply for a visa.  Our plans are to go to Paris, Italy and Spain, but we haven't nailed down definite dates; the approximate dates are August 18 to September 11. We made an appointment with Spain consulate to apply for the visa. We need to show air flight reservations, I could book it online without any problems.    Since we don't have definite dates, what dates should he put down on the application?  I know that, once they approve you, they give you 90 days, so does it matter what dates I put down on the visa application?   Our appointment at the Spanish Consulate is in a few days.
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I have read a few posts specifying that you are allowed to travel for a 90-day period of a 180-day visa.  I have a type D Schengen visa for 365 days. I have been in Italy for 5 months but have not travelled to another Schengen territory yet.  Would I still be able to travel to other countries or has my window of opportunity disappeared?
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I have submitted a Schengen visa application, where my duration of intended stay is 7 days.  Now, what could be my duration of visa validity  7 days or 90 days?
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I have been granted multiple entry Schengen Visa valid for 4 years with the duration of stay of 90 days. Does it mean only 90 days of stay in total during a 4 years period?  I'll be travelling to Schengen Area in September for 25 days, then after 2 month or so I will travel again for 30 days. Similarly, I'll be traveling to the Schengen Area in the future depending on the business meetings.  How will I know, that how many days are left? On what basis the calculations are done?  Also, please explain the "90/180" rule.
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My international conference in Europe this May has been canceled due to the COVID-19. I have a ticket, purchased from TAP air Portugal, from Toronto, Canada to Lisbon. Because it is a non-refundable fare, they don't want to give a refund.  They won't allow me to reschedule later than May 31 of this year. This won't be useful for me.  What options do I have? I'd prefer to get a full refund.  (I am a US citizen if it matters)  Note: They offered to refund just the taxes, which is about 10% of the value. That's not horrible, but I'd rather have the whole thing returned.
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Case:   Booking of flight ticket from Belgium to Namibia for family with minors in Jan 2018 for flight scheduled on Aug 1st 2018. New regulation on birth certificates requirements for minor introduced by Namibian authorities on July 15th 2018 with activation date on August 1st. (short notice !) Airline denied boarding to family on Aug 1st due to missing birth certificate.   Argument of airline : Passenger should in any case be aware of regulation.  Question : When a passenger books a flight on the website of the airline, is the airline responsible to warn the passenger if there is a regulation change on the required travel documents between the booking time and flight departure time?  Thanks for your replies.  1) In fact the airline told us they have been phoning to all their pax with end destination Namibia to warn them, but unfortunately not us. Their explanation is, because they "subcontracted" the last leg of our journey (JOH-WDH) to a third party airline, our family didn't appear on their list of pax to warn for this new rule ... From a "premium" airline I would have expected a more professional service...  Bad luck for us...  2) Timatic "on line" contained info as of the very date of our departure (Aug 1st). The Timatic paper booklet of July and August did not contain this update yet. The release of the next month (September) did...  Again bad luck for us...
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I arrived in South Africa from Australia at the end of october, so I have 3 months in the country, but in december I left the country for a month and recently re-entered thinking I would get another 3 months. But they didn't give me the extra 3 months because they said I had to return to South Africa, so they only gave me the stamp for 3 more weeks, counting the 3 months from when I first entered.  Does anyone know if this is a new rule that you have to go back to where you came from? Because I thought I would get another 3 months as that is what happened with most people I know that didn't get a visa, and now it is too late to get a visa or an extension, does anyone know what will happen to me if I don't leave in 3 weeks and keep my original ticket which was 3 months?
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I'm a writer and theater/film director who has been traveling nearly all my life without incident. In February, I decided to pull up stakes in NYC and move to London. I am a freelancer and I'm working with three different organizations in NYC so I wasn't working illegally in the UK. I was, however, seeing if there might be some opportunities in London, ie. meeting with Artistic Directors of various theatre companies to see if they might be interested in producing my work.   In April, I was invited to a conference in San Diego and then a film festival in Switzerland. I didn't think it would be a problem if I went and then bummed around in France for a few days since I hadn't broken any laws and had left the UK well under my six month leave to stay. Well, when I tried to return to London, I was denied entry at Luton. The border control officer said I didn't have enough funds for a two month stay and put a black cross over a stamp in my passport. They put me in a detention room until the next flight back to Lyon, which was the following morning. I don't know anyone in Lyon so I ended up going to a friend's place in Paris.   After a few days of not knowing what to do, a friend suggested that perhaps I should try going back to London on the Eurostar since border control is in Paris. I wondered if I ought to go to the British Embassy but was deterred by something on their website that says that a visitors visa could take up to three weeks (I can't sit around here in Paris for three weeks) and anyway, the decision ultimately is with the border control, so I decided to take a chance on the Eurostar. I bought myself a return ticket in two weeks to Paris just so I had something to show.   Well, the UK border control denied me entry after giving me a third degree. They accused me of lying and seeking work in the UK. They also insisted that the amount of money I had was not enough to live on for two weeks. So I'm back at my friend's place in Paris, wondering what to do.   Is it possible for me to ever get back to the UK? I had to cancel one meeting and I'm wondering if I have to cancel going to the Sheffield DocFest. (Two of my projects were accepted to programs there.)   Should I apply for a visa from the British Embassy? Will this really take three weeks? When I started to say something about obtaining a visa, the border control officer cut me off and said, "Why are you going to the Embassy? This has nothing to do with the Embassy. We make the decisions."
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I may be visiting the US soon for both work (conference) and leisure (sight-seeing) but was wondering whether it is possible to pay a visit to Cuba, as I see that direct commercial flights have been restarted. From what I can tell, it is still not permitted for US citizens to travel to Cuba as tourists (from the ).  What is the legal status of European citizens - would it be permitted for me to travel as a tourist from, say, Florida to Cuba on a commercial flight? Would this cause problems for me on my return to the US?  I understand that the question has been asked before () but the situation has changed and I believe it warrants asking again.
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I am an Indian citizen studying in Italy on an Italian visa that expires 19 November, 2015. I have permesso di soggiorno. I want to visit the United Kingdom for my vacations for a week during March. I know the procedures already, however I am a little bit confused about the amount that I must show as a proof of support with my bank statements. I will stay for a week with my friends who are also students in Italy and will be in London for 5 days. What would be the amount in Euros that I need to show for my visit to UK?
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I have a valid ESTA.  If my visa waiver 90 days end on August 1, and I have a ticket leaving the US on the same day, would it be OK or should I purchase a ticket a day before?