Passport validity requirements for a EU resident (but not a EU citizen) to travel within Schengen

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It is known that in order to enter the Schengen area a non-EU citizen should have a passport which

  1. expires at least three months after than the supposed date of leaving the Schengen area

  2. is not older than 10 years

  3. the renewed passports older than 10 years are not allowed

However I was not able to find any information on what happens if a third-country national is a EU long-term resident in a Schengen member country, has a passport issued some 9,5 years ago and he/she extends the validity of passport in the consulate of his/her country of citizenship for, say, another 10 years while staying in the Schengen area.

The question is: will this extended passport be valid for traveling within the Schengen area (at least until 10 years from the date of issue of the passport, i.e. for a few months remaining until the passport becomes exactly 10 years old)?

I am not sure to which extent the answer to this question depends on a specific Schengen country to which one wants to travel. If this is the case, I am particularly interested in the possibility of traveling to Austria, Germany, Poland and Italy.



Best Answer

Even if there are general rules on which documents are accepted when entering or leaving the Schengen area, it is up to each member state to decide which documents are recognized and required for a foreigner to stay in the country. This has the odd implication that you as a citizen of a Schengen state don't need a passport to cross the border to another member state, but may be required by national law in the other state to be in posession of a passport to stay there.

For Germany, you can find the list of officially recognized foreign travel documents here (in German). There is no absolute requirement that passports may not be valid for more than 10 years, there are however for several countries restrictions that only passports issued after a said date are valid. One odd example would be Turkmen passports, which are valid when issued after 1996, even if they have no expiration date at all.

As you can see from the German regulations (16 pages of fine print), it is not possible to give you a general answer. As Mark Mayo suggested, if you ask if a specific document is valid, you may get better help.


Ukrainian regular passports are in Germany valid without any restrictions. The symbols and abbreviations used in the German list are not quite intuitive to understand, but "JA 3) (2000)" means that the 2000 series of the passport is recognized, but hat earlier issued passport are also still recognized as long as they are not expired. Remark 3) is not applicable to regular passports.




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Can I travel to other Schengen countries with residence permit?

A long stay visa or a residence permit issued by a Schengen State allows you to travel or stay in other Schengen States, while respecting the maximum duration of a \u201cshort stay\u201d (a stay of "90 days in any 180 day period").

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.

Can you travel within Schengen without visa?

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.

Can I travel in Schengen area without passport?

Citizens of Schengen countries can cross the internal borders of all member states without passport checks. The Schengen visa entitles the holder to visits of up to 90 days every 6 months in the entire Schengen area.



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