What to do about an expired student visa in Spain?

Question

I am an American student studying in Spain. I arrived on August 31 with a student visa valid until February 28 and my original plan was to stay only until mid January. My plans recently changed, however, and I decided to continue studying here for another semester. My flight home is June 5.

It is my understanding that if I had left the Schengen countries before the visa expired and re-entered Spain I would have an extra 3 months as a tourist. I plan on going either to London or Gibraltar within the next couple of weeks in order to attain these extra 3 months, but am wondering what will happen when I go and my visa is expired. Will it be noticed? and if so is there a fine, or is it something more serious?

As another option, would it be better just to not do anything about it? I have a trip planed to Greece, in early May. Since it is a Schengen country, would I have a problem leaving/returning to Spain?

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks a lot!!!

Answer 1

you have to renew your VISA before to travel

Answer 2

Hi I would recomend you not to do anything. Or go to a non schengen country that is not far and is easy to come in out from Spain like Andorra. Burt as your visa already expired check here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_tr...

These countryes bellow are non-signatories of the treaty

San Marino, although not formally part of the Schengen zone, has an open border with Italy (although some random checks are made by Carabinieri, Polizia di San Marino and Guardia di Finanza).

Monaco, which borders onto the Mediterranean Sea: The Schengen Agreement is administered as if Monaco were a part of France, with French authorities carrying out the Schengen checks at Monaco's sea port.

Liechtenstein is not yet part of the Schengen area; it has an open border with Switzerland (which has not yet implemented the agreement) but border controls are still carried out between it and its Austrian EU-neighbour. As part of the European Economic Area (EEA) it applies the Traditional Free Movement of Persons acquis of the European Community; Liechtenstein intends to adhere to the Schengen area and it applied to join in the autumn of 2005. The EU Council of Ministers gave their assent to the start of the negotiations in late February 2006. It is expected to be implemented by Liechtenstein in 2008. [5]

Vatican City has expressed a desire to join Schengen. It already has an open border with Italy, but enforcing the Schengen Agreement will allow for closer cooperation in information sharing and similar activities covered by the Schengen Information System.[6]

Andorra is not integrated into the Schengen zone and border controls remain. Usually non-EU nationals holding a valid Schengen visa are allowed to enter Andorra from France/Spain by road without any passport control at the border.

Check it out and decide. Usually once in a Schengen country they do not check in customs so instead of showing passport show can try showing other kind of ID for the plain tickets check, done by airhostesses of the aircompany

Gluck

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