Schengen tourist visa for a Japanese national
I've a Japanese friend coming to the European Union, land in the UK and depart back to Japan from The Netherlands with flights from UK to Portugal and from Portugal to The Netherlands.
I know that Japanese nationals can request a tourist visa on landing but I do not know how it will work when my friend fly from the UK to Portugal and from Portugal to The Netherlands.
What kind of tourist visa does my friend needs to request when landing in the UK to be able to later on leave the UK and entry Portugal and then The Netherlands?
My friend will be staying 4 days in each country, (4 days in the UK, 4 in Portugal and 4 in The Netherlands) but will be attending a conference in the UK. In Portugal and The Netherlands will be solely for tourism.
Best Answer
People often use "visa" to refer to the permission a traveler gets to enter or remain in a country, but in many countries, including those of the EU, a visa is a distinct form of authorization, explicitly not required for certain countries' citizens. Those citizens get an entry stamp in the passport, not a visa. Japan is one of those countries, so its citizens don't need visas to enter EU countries.
This regime applies to stays of up to six months per visit in the UK and up to 90 days in any 180-day period in the Schengen area, so at 4 days and 8 days respectively, your friend isn't even close to the limits.
If you friend were required to get a visa, he'd need a UK standard visitor visa plus a short-stay Schengen visa from Portugal covering his time both in Portugal and the Netherlands. There's no passport control between Portugal and the Netherlands, but the airline may check for a visa when the traveler shows a passport that requires one. Again, since a Japanese passport doesn't require one, there will be no problem flying from Portugal to the Netherlands; it's rather like a domestic flight.
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Answer 2
Japanese nationals are exempt from visas to visit UK or Schengen countries.
Here is the official source for UK and Schengen states
1. United Kingdom
Official source: Check UK visa here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y/japan/tourism
You won’t need a visa to come to the UK
2. EU schengen states
Council Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 of 15 March 2001 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32001R0539
Without prejudice to Article 8(2), nationals of third countries on the list in Annex II shall be exempt from the requirement set out in paragraph 1, for stays of no more than three months in all.
ANNEX II
Common list referred to in Article 1(2)
- STATES
Andorra
Argentina
Australia
Bolivia
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Ecuador
Estonia
Guatemala
Holy See
Honduras
Hungary
Israel
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Malaysia
Malta
Mexico
Monaco
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Poland
Romania(1)
Salvador
San Marino
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Korea
Switzerland
United States of America
Uruguay
Venezuela
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