bons

I think I read somewhere that we don't want our passport stamping when we enter the EU, is that right and whyh? Thanks.

Listen Very Carefully

Are you a Brit? Are you a full time resident of an EU country benefitting from the Withdrawal Agreement ie you were resident prior to Brexit coming into effect and do you have the card issued to residents to show that they retained their residency rights?
If so then your passport will not be stamped
If not then your passport will be stamped and you will have a max of 90 days in a rolling 180 day period in the Schengen Area

Fredbargate

I am British
I am no a resident of an EU country
I don't get my passport stamped when I enter the EU
Rules are not set in stone.

spiggle

My passport entering Portugal on two occasions since the withdrawal agreement was signed has not been stamped but exiting has.
Like Fred I am not a resident EU member. Would be interested to know the reason, will ask on my next visit end of this month.

Spigs

offthepiste

If you are a temporary Portuguese resident, i.e. have a QR code or Biometric card, you will not have your passport stamped either on entry or exit at Portuguese passport control.

However, you do have to show it to the border officer otherwise they will stamp your passport. If your passport is stamped on entry the 90 day limit clock starts or resumes and on exit it stops.

bons

So it's the 90 day rule that applies if stamped. We have everything we need, so will make sure it's not stamped. Thanks.

RichardHenshall

But isn’t Gibraltar inside Schengen?

Fredbargate

No

Listen Very Carefully

This may come as a bit of a shock then Fred
Johnson handed over border control to Frontex and eventually Spain

https://www.etiasvisa.com/etias-news/etias-gibraltar

Which is why your nice blue passport is not getting stamped

Fredbargate

I do not have a blue passport even though they are free.
Also the deal has not yet been completed despite speculation, see last but one paragraph

Obviously you have not been Listening Very Carefully
.

Red Eric

It's in a transition period.

Freedom Day won't be long coming.

EU.flag

etiasvisa.com is not official website of any gov.
It's register under hidden virtual office in CA. It could as well be run by China or Russia.

I wish people have more common sense and not click on first search link.
Only rely on official gov websites, europa.eu, gov.uk, etc.

Fredbargate

Spanish police have begun stamping passports for residents of Gibraltar bearing the blue civilian registration card who cross the border. Up until now, these card holders did not require a stamp.

However border control officers are telling blue card holders that as from 1st October, they require a stamp on their passports, and that their stay in Spain cannot exceed 90 days.

Red ID card holders continue to be able to cross the border without having their passports stamped.

https://www.gbc.gi/news/blue-card-ho...stamped-border

These blue ID cards are the ones often carried by French, German, Portugese, Spanish and other members of other EU states resident in Gibraltar
.

Bomber Harris

That could cause problems. To do so would put Spain in contravention of the Schengen right of free movement for citizens of EU member states (no 90 day restriction, no passport stamping).

Fredbargate

Spain has regularly been in contravention of the Schengen right of free movement in the way it controlled the Gibraltar frontier but no one gave a shit about it.