Being in Spain as an international student, with an expired TIE, will I be able to travel to Italy and back with just a return permit?
I am currently a Dominican student staying in Madrid, last August my visa/TIE expired, since then I've been doing all the paperwork and all I need to do to renew it, sadly it won't be done until some time in the first few months of 2020.
This December all of my family is coming to Europe for the Holidays, they're planning to stay in Madrid for a couple of days and then we plan on going to Italy for the rest of the Holidays. Knowing this I just got a permit so I can leave Spain and come back, but on said permit it says "not valid to transit Schengen States", I'm a little confused over this, what does it mean? do I need to get a different permit? Is this one enough?
Best Answer
An interesting constilation.
As a citizen of the Dominican Republic (listed in Annex I), you will require a C-Visa (Schengen Visa) issued by Italy.
Normaly as a holder of a valid residence permit of Spain, this would not be required.
I just got a permit so I can leave Spain and come back, but on said permit it says "not valid to transit Schengen States"
The only images I could find that contain the word 'Schengen' use
- circular and not tránsito
so it may mean not valid for travel. Most of the images found don't contain this text.
The (very small) english text of the image below says:
- No longer valid for roaming the Schengen territory
You will have to probaly go to the Italian Consulate, with all of your Spanish papers, and apply for a C-Visa. Let them then deside what to do.
As to how this issued Visa will recieve an entry/exit stamp when travelling between Spain and Italy is a good question, since this is a rather abnormal situation.
If you do not recieve an entry stamp in Italy, then make sure you have this Spanish document and the flight tickets (which proves when you entered Italy) inside your passport while in Italy.
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