Stuck in another country?
This doesn't apply to me, but I'm rather curious, and it might apply to someone else.
Spain is apparently being reasonable about travel difficulties, and I presume other countries are similar. But part of that article is interesting: the five requirements for an extension. I can imagine some persons being unable to meet some of the five requirements there.
Are there any known cases of penalties for overstay when the "offender" had no way of avoiding it? Or any country that has explicitly stated that they will enforce such penalties in spite of the "offender's" lack of options?
Best Answer
This doesn’t exactly answer the question as asked, but some comments allegedly from the EU Commission are pertinent:
“A spokesperson of the European Commission … pointed out that persons who at the expiry of their visa have already stayed 90 days in any 180-day period should be issued a national long-stay visa or a residence permit covering the prolonged stay, in the country in which they have been stranded.
“More generally, as regards, third-country nationals who are stranded in the EU and as a result overstay their short-stay or long-stay visa or their residence permit, or who stay beyond the authorized visa-free maximum period of stay, a border guard can always make an exception if properly documented,” the spokesperson said.
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