When does your 90 days in EU Start?

[TeamBandS]

When traveling by ferry to Spain, when does the day count start? Logically it should start the day you dock in Spain. Is this the case or does it start the date you board the ferry? Do you go though Spanish customs at Portsmouth or just on arrival in Spain?

Hopefully a silly question and the answer is when you arrive in Spain but thought I would check!

 

[Emmit]

Your 90 days, as far as the ferry to Spain is concerned, starts when you arrive in Spain.

 

[Grianan]

Is that correct? I honestly thought I read on here that it was when you left do you didn’t want to leave Day 1 arrive Day 2 or your lose 2 days. There was something odd about cruises too that time on ship in international waters still counted.

 

[Sheddy]

Our passports were stamped on the port at Santander, he also looked to see if there were earlier stamps, so I would assume that was the first day.

 

[L' Hobo]

When traveling by ferry to Spain, when does the day count start? Logically it should start the day you dock in Spain. Is this the case or does it start the date you board the ferry? Do you go though Spanish customs at Portsmouth or just on arrival in Spain?

Hopefully a silly question and the answer is when you arrive in Spain but thought I would check!

Do you now go through Spanish Customs in Portsmouth, last time I went, there was only British?? (More bl**dy immigrants )

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[Sheddy]

Do you now go through Spanish Customs in Portsmouth, last time I went, there was only British?? (More bl**dy immigrants )

No Spanish customs in Portsmouth.

 

[Bobandfay]

Our passports were stamped and dated when we got of the ferry in Santander they have made an extra checking area for pet AHC checks after your passport check.

 

[Land Yachties]

Definitely stamped on arrival at Santander, or at least they were last Wednesday.

 

[sciac2001]

Upon arrival.

 

[TeamBandS]

That was the answer I hoped would prevail. As said, otherwise you could loose 2 days on the way out.

Is it in Dover where you get checked by French customs or perhaps before boarding the Tunnel?? I am sure in the back of my mind the French customs operate from the UK somewhere?

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[Emmit]

Is that correct? I honestly thought I read on here that it was when you left do you didn’t want to leave Day 1 arrive Day 2 or your lose 2 days. There was something odd about cruises too that time on ship in international waters still counted.

Is that correct? I honestly thought I read on here that it was when you left do you didn’t want to leave Day 1 arrive Day 2 or your lose 2 days. There was something odd about cruises too that time on ship in international waters still counted.

In response to the above.
Yes it is.
If you arrive on any particular day and leave the following day then obviously, (well it is to me,) that you have been in Spain for 2 days, regardless of the number of hours that might be.
There may be something odd about cruises, for instance, 12hrs after leaving Malta, and, BEFORE one arrives at another port, one is charged VAT by Malta for drinks on board even though one left there the day before......
But that wasn't in the question.

I repeat, when one disembarks the ferry in Spain, having travelled from the UK, that is Day 1

 

[Emmit]

That was the answer I hoped would prevail. As said, otherwise you could loose 2 days on the way out.

Is it in Dover where you get checked by French customs or perhaps before boarding the Tunnel?? I am sure in the back of my mind the French customs operate from the UK somewhere?

Unless one catches the 23.20hrs out of Folkestone (which arrives the following day @00.55hrs French time), I would suggest that is possibly the only way one could 'lose' a day of one's 90 day allocation by producing ones passport to the French authorises the day before ones actual arrival in France.

 

[gus-lopez]

Unless one catches the 23.20hrs out of Folkestone (which arrives the following day @00.55hrs French time), I would suggest that is possibly the only way one could 'lose' a day of one's 90 day allocation by producing ones passport to the French authorises the day before ones actual arrival in France.

Yes it is only the time in the Uk that counts when the French check your passport so a 11,20pm boat is stamped as day 1.arrival time does not count.

 

[Dramfineday]

Mind the doors......

Entry-Exit System

The Entry/Exit System (EES) will be an automated IT system for registering travelers from third-countries, both short-stay visa holders and visa exempt travelers, each time they cross an EU external border...

ec.europa.eu

shapes of things to come

 

[Badknee]

Is that correct? I honestly thought I read on here that it was when you left do you didn’t want to leave Day 1 arrive Day 2 or your lose 2 days. There was something odd about cruises too that time on ship in international waters still counted.

No it’s not correct. Your 90 days starts when passport control on the dock at Santander stamps your passport.
Think about it, how and when did the channel and the Bay of Biscay become part of the Shenzhen region?

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[Grianan]

No it’s not correct. Your 90 days starts when passport control on the dock at Santander stamps your passport.
Think about it, how and when did the channel and the Bay of Biscay become part of the Shenzhen region?

See posts #12 and #13 above.
We were stamped in UK on leaving. Was, IMO a reasonable question to ask if would be same for ferries to Spain.
Luckily not, it appears

 

[nicholsong]

Unless one catches the 23.20hrs out of Folkestone (which arrives the following day @00.55hrs French time), I would suggest that is possibly the only way one could 'lose' a day of one's 90 day allocation by producing ones passport to the French authorises the day before ones actual arrival in France.

Surely a French Immigration (not Customs) Officer should be working on CET so should be stamping 0020 ?

Why do people refer to those Officers controlling Immigration rues as 'Customs' ?

I accept that some countries give authority over Immigration to some Customs Officers, but when exercising their Immigration function they are effectively Immigration Officers. But this is not the norm and Immigration and Customs are normally separate.

Geoff

 

[EuroTrotters]

still working out if Im on the Naughty Step