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nekare at 08:50pm on 11/11/2008 under the student exchange nightmare
nekare at 08:50pm on 11/11/2008 under the student exchange nightmareEuropean folks in my flist!
The, uh, liaison, you could say, between my Uni and Leeds University, just e-mailed me and between some other stuff (oh God the British visa I need to apply and I have to do it in Mexico City oh why, it's 7 hours by bus uuuuugh) he said I need to get this Shengen visa to move around Europe. I'd, uh, never heard about it! When I went to Europe (admitedly, eight years ago) all I had was my passport, and me and my family crossed countries quite merrily and without any fuss.
What do you European people need to get across borders? And people from other places that have backpacked or something, what did you need?
HALP?
(I'm not even sure if I'll be able to go to other countries during the semester (i.e. if I'll have the money), but I want to do it like burning, so I'm not closing that option.)
The, uh, liaison, you could say, between my Uni and Leeds University, just e-mailed me and between some other stuff (oh God the British visa I need to apply and I have to do it in Mexico City oh why, it's 7 hours by bus uuuuugh) he said I need to get this Shengen visa to move around Europe. I'd, uh, never heard about it! When I went to Europe (admitedly, eight years ago) all I had was my passport, and me and my family crossed countries quite merrily and without any fuss.
What do you European people need to get across borders? And people from other places that have backpacked or something, what did you need?
HALP?
(I'm not even sure if I'll be able to go to other countries during the semester (i.e. if I'll have the money), but I want to do it like burning, so I'm not closing that option.)
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Hope that helps!
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However going to England is always a bit more difficult "because they're an island", I just think its rather because.... uh, well, none of my theories now.
But I guess if you re not from the EU things become more difficult.
My former best friend suprisingly made it to England with us, stayed one week, got out of the country again - all without a passport. But that was sheer fucking luck.
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Lol, estoy grogui y he escrito ese párrafo en inglés. Anyway, ya sabes que en Barcelona tienes cama (creo que Jet 2, Ryanair y/o Easyjet tienen vuelos baratos desde Leeds) :D
Suerte con lo del visado!
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I got curious and googled it! Sounds like it's just a way of combining all the participating countries' visitor visas into one. (Although I have no idea which countries doing this Shengen thing you'd have otherwise needed individual visas for, what with the whole EU citizen thing...)
Hooray I was somewhat unhelpful :D
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Some countries aren't in the Shengen area though like the UK or the newest EU countries. So it seems weird that you need a Shengen visa when you go to the UK...really I don't know
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