Hi Everybody, this is Grant Thomas from Visas Association,
bringing you another Q&A session where the question that we're covering off is
"If I get a country-specific Schengen Visa, what other Schengen countries can I visit?"
Now, this question is super important as
it depends on the Visa type that you get approved for.
So at the end of the video, I'm actually going to walk you through
the three Key Visa types that really influence the answer to this question.
But before we get to that, for those who don't really know
what this relates to: is that there are different Visa types when you go
to the Schengen region. And so what influences the Schengen Visa types?
There's one really important one, which is what is the reason for your travel?
So the most popular one out of all the 14 million approved Schengen visas
that happens every single year, is "Tourism". Which makes complete sense.
This is people traveling to Europe or most
of Europe, which is in the Schengen region, in order to get approval for them
to go and see sites, go and do activities, enjoy culinary experiences, etc.
So that is the most common one.
The second one is "Work".
So people going there to work for a specified period of time.
Some is "Business" to go and do business in the Schengen region.
You've also got "Students", you've got "Children",
you've also got people visiting their family all within the Schengen region.
Now, most of them do not sort of impact what countries you can visit.
However,
just because you've got access to one country or just because you've got
a Schengen Visa doesn't mean that you have access to multiple countries.
And what controls this is actually
the entry criteria that you have for your Visa.
And, so I'll dive into a little bit more
detail. When we fill out our visa application form
and we complete our cover letter, etc.
All of the requirements that we provide will support what we are asking for.
So one of the examples is a multiple entry visa:
This means that we can go in and out
of the Schengen region for up to a total of 90 days within a 180 day period.
Now, the only way that you are going
to get that visa is if you have a reason to go in and out of so many different
countries. If you're going to Italy and just seeing
family just within Italy and there is no reason for you to go anywhere else outside
of Italy, they are not going to approve a multiple
entry visa because there is no reason for it.
You become a bigger risk to the Schengen
region if they approve you to travel outside of there.
And also if you didn't ask for it, you won't receive it.
And so that's just an example of how
the visa types really influence what countries you can go visit.
So, to answer the question exactly,
there are three key scenarios from my experience that really impacts this.
The first one is if you've got a single
entry visa. Now, usually from what I've seen, you are not confined to a country.
If you get access to the Schengen visa, you get access to the Schengen region.
What is really going to control you here is the fact
that your visa will say a single entry. So, this does not allow you to go out
of the Schengen region and back into the Schengen region.
So, you can get into the Schengen region, but you can not go around and out
of the Schengen region, back in, out, in, out, in.
So it gives you one entry into the Schengen region.
Now, you could travel around the Schengen
region because that's exactly how it operates.
But again, your single entry. Once in and out, and that is it, there is nothing else.
The second type is a double entry.
So this means you can go in/out and in/out again.
This depends on the requirements
that you have, relevant to your Schengen Visa application.
So, for example, you can go into Italy and then out into Croatia,
which is not currently a country of the Schengen region,
and then go back in again where you would then need a double entry.
And, so this is really valuable for people
who are travelling around Europe that doesn't really have a definite sort of in/out.
But the best and most applicable Visa
that we always recommend everybody to get, is what we call the multiple entry visa.
What this means is it doesn't actually matter too much.
You can literally go into any of the 26 countries within
the Schengen region and travel in/out, in/out in order for you to just enjoy
what each one of the 26 different Schengen region countries have to offer.
This means that they restrict the number of days in total that you have, as opposed
to the number of entries that you can receive.
So in a single entry,
you can only enter once and then once you leave, it's done.
Where the multiple entry means that you can enter an unlimited amounts of times.
So you could
be flying in from the Philippines and you could fly in on July
and then you could leave in the 10th of July and you could actually fly back
to the Schengen region in September and still access the Schengen region
within the same Visa that you've had approved.
Now, the reason for this is because the multiple entry duration is 180
days and you can have a total of 90 days within the Schengen region.
But it means that once you
go beyond that 180 days, it means that then you
need to go and reapply for another Visa to actually re-enter.
So, on that just know that they don't
explicitly call out a very specific country that you're allowed to enter.
It is a region, so you get approval
to enter the region and then you can just change it.
So if you've got approval for a single
entry for Italy and you go into Spain and stay in Spain, for example,
that's completely fine because it's part of the Schengen region.
However, if you want to go out of the region and come back in,
you will need to get another visa if you had a single entry.
So, very simple sort of question.
Hopefully this answer is exactly what you've asked.
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around me that you should be able to help you deep dive a little bit further
into your Schengen Visa and hopefully support your trip through Europe as well.
So, once again, thank you very much for your time.
It's been an absolute pleasure.
And I'll catch you on the next one.