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My Russian fiancé has her interview in Warsaw on Feb 17th. We got a Spanish Schengen visa for her. Are there any issues flying into Paris instead, as it's easier for me to fly and meet her? or do I need to book a layover for her in Spain?

 

My thought process is the Schengen zone has open borders, so they wouldn't know if we then from Paris, were planning on traveling down to Spain. Does anyone have experience with this? Thanks in advance!

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12 minutes ago, Cheddy said:

My Russian fiancé has her interview in Warsaw on Feb 17th. We got a Spanish Schengen visa for her. Are there any issues flying into Paris instead, as it's easier for me to fly and meet her? or do I need to book a layover for her in Spain?

 

My thought process is the Schengen zone has open borders, so they wouldn't know if we then from Paris, were planning on traveling down to Spain. Does anyone have experience with this? Thanks in advance!

Recently, my wife and I met in Italy. She flew from Serbia -> Munich -> Milan, so technically she did passport control in Germany, rather than Italy. That said, the German border agent asked her directly if she was planning on traveling to Poland, and she just said no, her next flight was to Italy, and they stamped the passport and let her through.

 

So, I would say it doesn't really matter where they enter/go during the trip... That said, I have always read the advice that the country you get a Schegen visa from should ideally be the country you spend the most time in, or if you are splitting time equally, then the country you will stay in first... My suggestion just to not rock the boat, would be try to have some proof that she has "planned to go" to Spain, since that's her visa. I don't think that entry point really matters, if you can kinda "prove" that you will "be in" Spain - maybe have some dummy hotel bookings, etc., in case she gets called out on it. Even better if the bookings are in your name with her as an extra guest (possible in Airbnb for example), so that if it ever "changes" then she's not really responsible for that...

 

So, at least that is my plan - get my wife an Italian visa, have a couple placeholder bookings that I can cancel, and at least enter Italy and spend the first 2 nights there (also, this acts as a buffer in case either of us have missed connections, etc.)

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40 minutes ago, Lynxyonok said:

Yikes!

Seems like agents probably have to ask the question as a formality... I see a white lie as pretty harmless in this circumstance - no, this trip isn't going there... But I'm not talking about the trip-withing-a-trip... Visa-ception..

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16 hours ago, Cheddy said:

My Russian fiancé has her interview in Warsaw on Feb 17th. We got a Spanish Schengen visa for her. Are there any issues flying into Paris instead, as it's easier for me to fly and meet her? or do I need to book a layover for her in Spain?

It's allowed (because emergencies happen and plans can change), but issuing countries tend to frown on it. If you get a Schengen visa from country X and use it enter country Y but not country X, it's not uncommon for country X to deny future visa applications or at least ask extra questions.

 

Back before Covid when traveling directly from Russia to the Schengen zone was a lot less complicated, for our last meeting prior to Anastasia coming to the US, she got a Schengen visa from Latvia because it was easy to get (having previously had one from Italy that expired a few months earlier), we spent a couple nights in Riga, and then the rest of the trip in Vienna. As it turned out, she'll (barring some unforeseen complications) be a US citizen before we're in the Schengen zone again, but we had no way of knowing that at the time (and if not for Covid and Vlad's adventure in Ukraine, that probably would not have been the case). 

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NOA1 Notice Date: 2021-07-16    Applied Online: 2022-07-09 (biometrics waived)
Approval Date: 2022-04-06       Interview was Scheduled: 2023-01-06
10-year GC In Hand: 2022-04-14  Interview date: 2023-02-13 (passed)
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