Australians CAN spend more than 90 days in Schengen countries

How do you track a total number of days you’ve spent in different countries during the past 12 months?

I find it to be important for visa and tax purposes to know how long and where I’ve been and I’m unable to find any software that solves this.

Nomads who bounce around Europe: Has anyone tried to use Andorra as their non-schengen time? I’ve read that you don’t get a stamp at the border, so I’m guessing if you wanted to do this you’d need to go to a govt office for a stamp? Is this even possible? If you’ve done this, would love to hear your experience!

Hello everyone! This is Juan from Argentina.

I am currently based in Cluj (Romania) and looking for options once my tourist visa runs out of days, the Schengen area is not an option due to the same reason. My current options are either the Balkans (Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia), Bulgaria, Turkey or Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia). Timeframe: between JAN/FEB18 to MAR/APR18.

The criteria would include:

• Rent below or around 600 EUR / mo
• Reliable and fast internet connection
• Safe
• Gay friendly

By “gay friendly” I mean that you can have a personal/romantic/sexual life without fearing for your personal safety.

Thoughts?
PS. My “go to” websites for deciding stuff like this are Numbeo and Nomadlist, if you got any other data aggregator alike please let me know!

I’m heading to Tallinn next month to pick up my e-residency. I’ve built some time into my schedule, giving me 8 days or so to get from Tallinn to London for a meeting.

Looking for ideas on what route to take / places to visit or if there any good DN locations on-route.

One of my current ideas is to travel to Stockholm and take the train down to Copenhagen and then potentially the train down to Hamburg before train/fly to London.

But I’m open to suggestions and happy to fly or train it.

Thanks in advance…

am italian, speaking german, french, spanish.
I’m looking for a base for the upcoming winter season.
on my radar i have following options:

France = I love the country, speak its languge, enjoy its food, just the climate ain’t most warm unless your in the deep south (good wines too)

Spain = After one year of living Mexico and speaking fluently spanish this rather new country could be very interesting, if not intriguing. Valencia probably on my top lists.

Italy = haven’t been in Italy for a while, though i’m italian. Generally very sociable country and if your not a tax resident the sounds of living in it is quite fascinating.

Greece = Never been there, food and climate would be probably very suitable if not super sweet. I can see my self overlooking the Agean see on a cup of wine while work is done stretching into sweet weekends.

Ukraine = I know bloody cold and politically tense, yet arguably cheap and still safe (i’m used to Mexican standards). It would be a interesting ride for sure, and low expenses would mean easy route to stay competitive and build momentum in my business.

All other options are out of sight, UK , IRELAND are too cold and expensive. I would drink too much to feel sociable

Where are you guys heading?
I have October, November, December to opt in , new year I’d probably HOP into a newer country, still EU-Bound …

Give me some pros and cons.

Hi all, need some help with schengen fuzziness… I’m a US citizen.

Does any know if the 90 day rule applies inside of Croatia. I’m seeing that Croatia isn’t part of schengen but adopts the same visa aquis. This isn’t clear to me.

If someone has a definitive answer please let me know as I’m approaching the 90 day rule in my travel plans and I want to hit Croatia and not have it count.

Thanks in advance.

Hi ,
Im going to be in Bangkok for a few days and i’m searching good places and not expensive price (around 25$ a day max) - i’m thinking on airbnb flat/private room but i’m seeing a lot of hotels/guest houses on this budget.

Do have recommendation on accommodation types/places based on your experience ?

I head that its common in hotels that there is constructions or loud noise from bars …

I’m traveling South Americas for the next couple of months and want to visit friends in EU afterwards, given my Russian passport I have to apply to visa. Is it possible to do outside of my home country?

Hi Guys,

I’m visiting friends in Sydney for Christmas and am looking to hot desk for a few days. The dates are 20,21,22,23 December - the week before Christmas.

I’ve tried some coworkings but it works out really expensive for just four days. Does anyone know of anywhere I can try and hot desk for a few days for a reasonable price?

Thanks in advance,

Keith

If no, how do you get around the being in one place for two years or more requirement?

I have just been reading up on the new Thai visa situation and I am very confused as to whether I can extend my ‘visa exempt 30 days stay" by another 30 days at a local immigration office whilst already in Thailand or not? According to the Austrian Foreign ministry website I cannot but then several recently updated travel blogs say you can? And visa runs seem to be more or less out of the question now since the authorities are crackin’ down on that since the Bangkok attacks?

Any EU Europeans had any recent experience with that? Just want to make sure I can avoid trouble.

My fiancée(who is British) is on her second 30 days visa exemption in Thailand. We’re considering getting the visa exemption extension for 30 days and staying longer.

Our only worry is: Does this mean we would hit 90 days in total? We need to return in March to fly home from Bangkok. We are worried we’d be refused entry in March as they might count the visa exemption extension against us.

Any advice is appreciated!

Cheers

As a US citizen, does Cyprus count towards my 3 months in Schengen? I’ve read that the South is part of Greece, the North part of Turkey, but that Cyprus is not considered Schengen. The whole thing confuses me, would love any insight.

Anyone spent time there? Recommendations? Internet?

Hey guys!
I’m going to Brazil to bootstrap my company (I will use my UK company because it’s easier) in 4 months.
I’m French and since France-Brazil’s match in 1998, they decided to disable the 90 days extension of stay for France (kidding about the world cup wink).
I want to stay there for 180 days, every visa that I see require an extension(that us French people can’t use) after the first 90 days.
Anybody got into this situation?

I plan to enter Bali for 30 days with visa on arrival and then extend my stay for another 30, making it 60 in total.

Should the date of flight on onward ticket be 30 days after the day of arrival or can it also be in 60 days (30 initial + 30 extension)? My logic is that at the day of arrival, I’ll only have a permission to stay 30 days in the country and not 60, so it would make sense for them to ask me for a proof of a ticket to that date and in not 60 days.

I am heading to Istanbul soon… I have a multiple entry visa valid for a 30 day stay within a 180 day period. I intend to spend a week or so in Istanbul and then travel onward, eventually returning to Istanbul in October for my return flight. So I will not be there for longer than 30 days - but I don’t yet have any proof of an onward journey as I would prefer to keep my plans flexible. Could this cause any trouble?

Looking for a place besides Croatia in Eastern Europe to go to the beach… any ideas? Looking for a place that is exciting and fun and not too sleepy.

Hey guys,

I’m in Romania now and looking to re-enter the schengen area. However, I have some doubts about the way the days are calculated for the visa.

I entered the Schengen area on 28th July 2014, and left on 26th October 2014.

When’s the earliest I can re-enter?
Is it 23rd January or 24th?

I’m asking because I definitely need to leave Romania on the 23rd January. I’ll be taking the train to Budapest. If I can only re-enter on 24th, I’m wondering what they will do to me.