Miguel Cruz

Mark Marinelli wrote:
    > I may not have stated everything correctly, but what I am trying to say,
    > is, one may stay in France for 180 days out of a given year, three months
    > at a time. So if one wanted to stay the whole 180 days as a stretch. it is
    > necessary to leave the country, and find some sort of proff that you left
    > the country(like a stamp on the passport).

Leaving the country won't help you stay 180 days at a stretch, at least not
legally. As Barbara said, you can only stay 90 out of any 180 days.

Of course in practice nobody cares how long you stay anyway as long as you
don't work or make trouble.

miguel
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Barbara Vaughan

Mark Marinelli wrote:
    >
    > I may not have stated everything correctly, but what I am trying to say, is,
    > one may stay in France for 180 days out of a given year, three months at a
    > time. So if one wanted to stay the whole 180 days as a stretch. it is
    > necessary to leave the country, and find some sort of proff that you left
    > the country(like a stamp on the passport).

You still can't stay 180 days at a stretch. You can stay for 90 days,
leave for 90 days and then return for another 90 days. And by leaving, I
mean you must leave the entire Schengen area, not just leave France.

Barbara

Garyl Boesenberg

The answer is country-specific. As of now (but for how much longer?)
friendship, commerce and navigation treaties are outside the scope of EU
law. The US has such treaties with most (not all) EU countries. Some are
more flexible than others in issuing their equivalent of E and L visas. It
is not too difficult to get entry clearance as the sole representative of a
US firm in Britain, although you will have to prove through copies of the
firm's accounts that your US employer is "substantial".

Then, as long as you are paid out of the US, you should be OK.

The micro-states (Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra, Cyprus, Malta)
are relatively easy to get residence/work permits for if you have the right
skills and/or sponsoring firm. Some other countries are easy if you are a
native speaker of the language (Greece) or have a Latin-Anmerican passport
(Spain) or relevant ancestry (Ireland, Italy, Spain, Greece).

We need more information about your background and intentions.




On 20/06/03 13:07, in article [email protected], "Barbara
Vaughan" wrote:

    >
    >
    > Ulf Kutzner wrote:
    >>
    >> Barbara Vaughan schrieb:
    >>>
    >>> Will wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>> I'm interested in moving to Europe but don't really know what I need
    >>>> in the way of travel visas or work visas. Can someone enlighten me as
    >>>> to what I will need in order to live and work in another country. I
    >>>> have a passport and access to a plane ticket...that's about it.
    >>>> Thanks in advance! --Will
    >>>
    >>> Getting a work visa in Europe is about as easy as it is for a European
    >>> to get a work visa in the US. That is to say it's very difficult.
    >>
    >> Err, sorry, getting a work visa in the U.S. after a visa waiver entry is
    >> close to impossible, IIUC.
    >
    > I didn't say anything about a visa waiver entry. I said "getting a work
    > visa": period.
    >
    > Barbara
    >

Vera Izrailit

Will wrote:
    > I'm interested in moving to Europe but don't really know what I need
    > in the way of travel visas or work visas. Can someone enlighten me as
    > to what I will need in order to live and work in another country. I
    > have a passport and access to a plane ticket...that's about it.
    > Thanks in advance! --Will

It would depend on the country. Generally you'd have to send resumes,
get called to interviews, come to the country for the interviews, get
an offer, accept it, fly back home, apply for residence and work
permits, get the permits and then move.

The difficulty involved in getting the job and the permits depends on
your field of work and your country of choice.

I moved from the US to Finland a year and a half ago on the following
schedule: bought plane ticket and sent resumes in August (the resumes
included the info on when I was going to be in Finland for the possible
interviews), came to Finland for 3 weeks in late September - early
October, went to interviews, got an offer and accepted it while there,
applied for a residence/work permit as soon as I got back to the US
in mid-October, got the permit in early December, moved to Finland
in the end of December.

Speaking fluent Finnish and having friends in Finland helped a lot.

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Vera Izrailit