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Maybe I'm a little too worried about overstaying.. but here it goes.

I am interested in staying around 110 days in europe, but I don't want
to go to the bother of applying for the Schengen Visa just for another
20 days.

My boyfriend who is working there, has about a 20-day vacation so my
idea is we go to a non-Schengen countries for vacation.

So.. here is my question:

If I take a weekend trip to England from the Schengen zone and leave on
say July 4th and come back July 7th. Is this considered 2,3, or 4 days
out of the schengen zone? How do they handle daytrips (and the like)?
To they calculate this stuff down to the hour?

It may very well come down to a couple days that I'm staying over, and
I'd like to know if that could be a problem.

But I'd also like to know how they do the 90 day in 180 day calculation
for my own reference.

Thanks for your help!

Alec

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    > Maybe I'm a little too worried about overstaying.. but here it goes.
    > I am interested in staying around 110 days in europe, but I don't want
    > to go to the bother of applying for the Schengen Visa just for another
    > 20 days.
    > My boyfriend who is working there, has about a 20-day vacation so my
    > idea is we go to a non-Schengen countries for vacation.
    > So.. here is my question:
    > If I take a weekend trip to England from the Schengen zone and leave on
    > say July 4th and come back July 7th. Is this considered 2,3, or 4 days
    > out of the schengen zone? How do they handle daytrips (and the like)?
    > To they calculate this stuff down to the hour?
You need to be out of Schengen for a whole day (24 hours). So in your
example it will be 2 days.
    > It may very well come down to a couple days that I'm staying over, and
    > I'd like to know if that could be a problem.
Not usually, as tracking of length of stay for non-visa holders is haphazard
or non-existant. If you have an Iraqi passport, for example, they will
probably pay much more attention to it.
    > But I'd also like to know how they do the 90 day in 180 day calculation
    > for my own reference.
Just subtract any whole days spent outside of Schengen from 90 days allowed.
    > Thanks for your help!
You are welcome.

Alec

Frank Hucklenbroich

Am Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:13:52 +0100 schrieb Alec:

    > You need to be out of Schengen for a whole day (24 hours). So in your
    > example it will be 2 days.

But he better keep the ticket/boarding pass as a proof, as they usually
don't stamp passports when leaving the schengen-zone to England.

Regards,

Frank