Do transit count as a day under short visit in Schengen for people with a resident permit in a Schengen country?
Let's assume I have a resident permit from the Schengen country A and plans to visit Schengen country B via a transit in Schengen country C. If I leave country A today and spend the over-night in country C in transit and arrive in country B tomorrow, will today count as a day spent in Schengen area under short-visits? Similarly, if I return from B to A via a transit in C, what is the situation?
According to the answer given here (see under 'Alternatives to short visits '), both these days does not count since I'll be from/to to the country of my resident. But I cannot find any official document to support this. Does anyone know where I can get official information? (Unfortunately, the person who posted the answer is not active on SE anymore. Therefore I decided to post this as a new questions)
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The general case for the 90/180 rule (people from outside the EU who enter the Schengen Area for short stays) is that any day you are in the Schengen Area, even for a single minute, counts as a full day. There is no notion of transit which would change the calculation. As long as you are in the Schengen Area, it counts (and that's what the answer you linked to says: a "point" in that answer is a day outside the Schengen Area, so during transit since you are in Schengen, you don't get a point "outside Schengen", but rather a day inside Schengen).
So in your case, the question is not so much whether the transit counts or not (it definitely counts), but whether a day which is spent partially in the country which delivered the D visa and partially in another Schengen Area country counts for the 90/180 rule.
The Schengen Borders Code is not very explicit on this topic. It just states in Article 6 point 2:
Periods of stay authorised under a residence permit or a long-stay visa shall not be taken into account in the calculation of the duration of stay on the territory of the Member States.
So obviously the time you are in country A does not count. But what about the partial day you are in country C?
I would personally err on the side of caution and count any day or part of a day spent outside country A towards the 90/180 rule.
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