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Master Shake
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Location: Colorado, USA
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 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject: Renewing/Extending a tourist visa |
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| Anyone know if it's possible for an American to extend or renew a tourist visa (i.e. the stamp from the Warsaw airport) WITHOUT leaving the country? |
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dynow
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004
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Location: On a Short Leash
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| In fact, technically, you have to leave for 90 days in this case! |
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Master Shake
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Bummer. |
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scottie1113
Joined: 25 Oct 2004
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Location: Gdansk
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Hasta luego amigo. |
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Mr.Engrish
Joined: 22 Oct 2009
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Location: China
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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90 days dude sorry  although im not 100%
however get a Polish wife and its all good  |
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simon_porter00
Joined: 09 Nov 2005
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Location: Warsaw, Poland
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dynow
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| not to be nosy but......why are you in this debacle??? you came here, why didn't you just get your karta pubytu? you've lived here before shake, so what's the problem man??? |
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Master Shake
Joined: 03 Nov 2006
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Location: Colorado, USA
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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No biggie, yo.
I just needed a little more time for my visa/work permit paperwork to go through - about one week, in fact. But no can do, as everyone has posted.
So it looks like I'll have to go to Ukraine or another non-Schengen country before my 90 days are up and then come back to get a new stamp in my passport at the border.
Anyone need anything from the Ukraine? |
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lundjstuart
Joined: 01 Jul 2008
Posts: 211
Location: Warsaw, Poland
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:55 am Post subject: |
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| Master Shake wrote: |
| Anyone need anything from the Ukraine? |
If you can pick me up some of that stuff that's going around..... what's it called.......oh yeah, THE SWINE FLU, that would be great!! |
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dynow
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:15 am Post subject: |
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Schengen Law states that you are allowed to spend 90 days in a 180 day period in Schengen territory. if you use all your 90 days at once, well, then you have to leave and wait another 90 in order to get back in to get a new tourist stamp. planning on staying in Ukraine for 3 months Shake?
the days of hopping into another country and hopping back the same day and getting a new stamp are over.
i hope you have some way of finagling it without having to leave Poland for that long (there always seems to be either a loophole or someone behind a desk who doesn't care) but I'm just telling you what I know. |
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scottie1113
Joined: 25 Oct 2004
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Location: Gdansk
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| dynow wrote: |
Schengen Law states that you are allowed to spend 90 days in a 180 day period in Schengen territory. if you use all your 90 days at once, well, then you have to leave and wait another 90 in order to get back in to get a new tourist stamp. planning on staying in Ukraine for 3 months Shake?
the days of hopping into another country and hopping back the same day and getting a new stamp are over.
i hope you have some way of finagling it without having to leave Poland for that long (there always seems to be either a loophole or someone behind a desk who doesn't care) but I'm just telling you what I know. |
Unfortunately, it's true. Shake, you gonna answer my email? |
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sparks
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't worry about it. If your paperwork is filed then you can stay here. Just don't go leaving until you get your karta pobytu. Technically the foreigner's office should put a visa in your passport if they don't issue you a decision before your time is up, but I've told them before to not give me a visa (because it takes up a whole page) when they promised to give me a decision a few weeks after my time was over. As long as you have even the application in on Dluga you can mess around getting your documents together for a while. If you're really worried just go tell them that you're illegal and need the visa (assuming you are in the process). |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe he's already gone and can't get back?
Hopefully not- may the border gods turn a blind eye towards M.S. this time!! |
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lundjstuart
Joined: 01 Jul 2008
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Location: Warsaw, Poland
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| sparks wrote: |
| Don't worry about it. If your paperwork is filed then you can stay here. Just don't go leaving until you get your karta pobytu. Technically the foreigner's office should put a visa in your passport if they don't issue you a decision before your time is up, but I've told them before to not give me a visa (because it takes up a whole page) when they promised to give me a decision a few weeks after my time was over. As long as you have even the application in on Dluga you can mess around getting your documents together for a while. If you're really worried just go tell them that you're illegal and need the visa (assuming you are in the process). |
It's the same thing I told you about a week ago! Don't go to where the swine flu is at!! |
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