Portugal and Schengen "doesnt matter" ...interesting

[jonrarit]

Just spotted this on the sailing fair isle youtube channel here

At 11 minutes 40 seconds into the video , checking into Portugal to be told at customs control "Schengen doesnt matter now in portugal"

Interesting.........

jr

 

[Goldie]

"Schengen doesnt matter now in portugal"

The remainder of the sentence in the video was “until the end of the year” which of course, was 31/12/23. Friends of ours were told the same but I don’t know the rationale behind the statement.

 

[shaneesprit]

Hmm be careful I have friends with £10,000 fines and bans, although not from Portugal.

 

[Goldie]

Hmm be careful I have friends with £10,000 fines and bans, although not from Portugal.

Agreed. The friends I referred to in #2 got it confirmed on the spot by email. In Vila Real de Santo Antonio IIRC.

 

[greeny]

Just spotted this on the sailing fair isle youtube channel here

At 11 minutes 40 seconds into the video , checking into Portugal to be told at customs control "Schengen doesnt matter now in portugal"

Interesting.........

jr

Due to the closure of SEF and the transfer of immigration business in Portugal to a new government department, the government put some extensions on some of the brexit driven deadlines that had previously been set. I suspect that the statement was in relation to those temporary extensions. It's now 2024 of course and Schengen controls are very much in force.

 

[Graham376]

Due to the closure of SEF and the transfer of immigration business in Portugal to a new government department, the government put some extensions on some of the brexit driven deadlines that had previously been set. I suspect that the statement was in relation to those temporary extensions. It's now 2024 of course and Schengen controls are very much in force.

I flew back early December and Brits without residence were having passports stamped so would assume 90 days limit stands as normal.

 

[srm]

Bit of thread drift. Way back (about 2008) I was alongside in North Haven, Fair Isle, when the boat "Fair Isle" came in. At that time she was under the German flag, owned by a couple from Berlin. As I had moved my somewhat smaller boat off the pier then berthed outside them I was invited on board, and enjoyed a very pleasant evening.