Length of stay in the Schengen area with a Turkish “special passport” [duplicate]

I have a Turkish “special passport” which exempts me from the requirement to hold a visa for the Schengen area.

My arrival date is: 13 June 2015, 11.00am My departure date is: 10 September 2015, 11.55pm

Do these dates exceed the limit of stay in the Schengen area?

Best Answer

The visa requirement is created by a separate sub-paragraph in the relevant article of the Schengen Borders Code, which reads:

For intended stays on the territory of the Member States of a duration of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period […] the entry conditions for third-country nationals shall be the following:

[…]

(b) they are in possession of a valid visa, if required pursuant to […]

There is no separate regulation, not even a distinct article, laying out entry conditions for “visa nationals”. To the extent that you are really exempted from the visa requirement, all the other rules should therefore still be exactly the same.

Regarding the maximum length of stay rule, see How does the Schengen 90/180 rule work? According to the calculator mentioned there, your stay is exactly 90 days long so it should be allowed but you would not have even a single day left until December.

I must however add that any visa exemption for special passports would have to result from some other agreement or national rules (as pointed out in the comments by @phoog) and it's possible those rules would also create an unusual regime regarding the maximum stay for Turkish special passport holders. I don't really know about that.

(Yet another) EDIT: I am told that only some (but not all) Schengen countries grant Turkish special passport holders visa-free entry. I can't provide any details but you ought to double-check the rules for each country you want to visit because that's apparently not as easy as you thought.

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The Schengen law states that you can't stay in the Area for more than 90 days. If you do, you're subject to a fine and possibly deportation and being banned from re-entering the Schengen Area.

What is the Schengen 90 day rule?

Under the terms of Schengen, non-EEA nationals cannot spend more than a total of 90 days within a total period of 180 days without a visa. Furthermore, once you've used up your quota of 90 days, you cannot return to Schengen until 90 more days have passed.

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Now that the UK is outside the EU, British passport holders can stay for a maximum of 90 days per 180-day period. UK passport holders can cross an external EU border using just a valid passport and stay anywhere in the Schengen Area for up to 3 months.

How many days can I stay in the Schengen Area?

How long can I stay without a visa in the Schengen area? You can stay 90 days in any 180-day period within the Schengen area. calculated individually for each of these states. For instance, after a 90-day stay in the Schengen area, the person can immediately travel to Croatia and stay for another 90 days there.

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