The rule of the first entry into the Schengen in the presence of a multiple-entry visa

Is it necessary to enter exactly the country whose visa you received in order to “print out” your Schengen multiple-entry card? Is it possible to enter Schengen through another country and what is the risk for this?

More than one hundred materials and articles have been written on these and many other issues related to the use of a multiple-entry visa. Once again, we see no point in describing what has long been known and written by others.

It is for this reason that we present below an article by the famous tourist blogger Sergey Vinsky about what you can do with the treasured multiple sticker in your passport.

First entry rule to the country on a Schengen visa came up with agencies that help tourists get a Schengen visa for money, in fact, which tourists can do on their own at the visa center closest to their home.

Schengen first entry rule they say it's cancelled. Well, yes… canceled what never was.
It was simply beneficial to support this disinformation in order to provide tourists with "services" in obtaining a Schengen visa to "difficult" Germany or exotic Denmark.

Conclusion:
- you have every right to send nafig help from the agency and make your own Schengen visa at any visa center.

For example, let's take the simplest French visa.

you have every right to travel on a Schengen multi-visa issued by the French embassy to any Schengen country.
Do you want to Croatia? - Not a question, Do you want to go to Germany? - very simple.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO FRANCE WHEN OPENING A SCHENGEN VISA ISSUED BY THE FRENCH EMBASSY

Yes, when filling out an application for a French Schengen visa, you write in one of the paragraphs of the questionnaire “The first country of entry is France”. But this is a formality of the questionnaire. You came to apply for a Schengen visa for a trip to France - that's why you write the country "France". If they came to the Bangladesh embassy, they had to write country = “Bangladesh” in the questionnaire.

By not going to France first in line, did you break the rules or the law? — NO.

Example: You arrived with a new French visa to Spain. Return ticket home from Spain. But you will go from Spain to France, to see the grave of Karl Marx on Pere la Chaise ... And you will stay there until the steam locomotive leaves for the Spanish airport from which you have a ticket home. Why such a tricky route? Because because…

You can bring this legend to a sleepy border guard at Barcelona airport. If asked. Although he won't ask you about it, I assure you.

Now let's understand the concepts: country of first entry" And " host country«.

The visa rules of the Schengen Agreement suggest that a citizen of a foreign state must obtain a Schengen visa from the country in which it is supposed to spend most of the time allotted by the visa. For example, for an annual visa, a quota of 90 days in half a year is set, that is, 180 days a year

Thus, a citizen who received an annual French Schengen and visited Spain for 10 days in a year, 2 days in Germany, 14 days in France, 7 days in Finland ... did not violate anything, although he entered Spain for the first time.

Now I will explain what are the days that are given to you to stay in the Schengen countries: Length of stay

In your visa, you see on the second line: from dd / mm / yy to dd / mm / yy - this is the period of validity of the visa. Simple subtraction arithmetic and you know what kind of visa you have: half-year, for a year, for 3 years, for 5 years

You have the right to stay in the Schengen zone for 90 days during the first half of the year. The semester starts from the day of the first crossing of the Schengen border. These 90 days are made up of your visits: 10 days in Spain, 14 days in France, 7 days in Finland = 31 days you were in the Schengen area in the first half of the year and you are still entitled to 90 days in the second half of the year if you have an annual visa. That is You can stay in the Schengen area for 180 days a year.

If you have a five-year Schengen visa, then the total stay in Schengen = 900 days and this does not mean that you can leave for 900 days on the island of Capri to write a novel. You will be expelled from there after 90 days and invited again after:
180 (days in a half-year according to the European Commission) - 90 (you wrote a novel on the island of Capri) = 90 days must pass in order to come to finish the novel on the island of Capri for another 90 days (and then you will be turned outside the Schengen again).