Schengen Visa

DarioMartin wrote on Thu Sep 9, 2021 10:07pm:

What passport do you hold? would be my first question.

Schengen Visa, if needed, is from the consulate or embassy of the country you wish to visit that is in the country in which you are resident

DreaD wrote on Thu Sep 9, 2021 10:51pm:

Thanks. I have a dual UK/South African passport. Currently in my house here in Almeria Spain on my UK. About two weeks left of the 3 months. Wanting to extend or stay. No residency although padrimiento and NIE in place. So query as to what next. How to switch over to the other passport.. Do I app...

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...ly for extension. No clue aktlly. Stressed.. Help.. 

DarioMartin wrote on Fri Sep 10, 2021 6:59am:

As you are a non-resident arriving on UK passport I don’t believe you can now apply for a Schengen Visa for South African passport - as you are a UK resident, you would have to do that in one of the Consulates in UK - in person. This is because a Schengen Visa grants up to 90 days stay, but you...

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... have already eaten into that 90 days using UK passport - you can’t now swap to a different passport as that would confuse how long you are able to stay.  You must enter and exit on the same passport so length of stay can be checked.

When we’re you planning on leaving originally? it’s curious you were actually boarded with less than 6 months on your passport as most EU countries require the 3 months validity from date of exit plus 3 months to allow up to 90 days stay.

short answer - unless you can get a renewed British passport organised and couriered to you here before your 90 days expires, you’ll have to leave in two weeks.  As getting a new passport would mean sending your old one in, that’s mighty dangerous indeed - especially as waiting times are reported north of 6 weeks now as people scramble to renew passports that don’t have sufficient validity.

I fear you are going to have to exit the country while UK passport still has 3 months on it, and return once passport is renewed.

As an aside, we had a friend visit us on a South African passport and it took her a good 4 weeks to organize the Visa, and even then that was going through one of the companies that specialize in helping obtain a Schengen visa. And she had to present in person to the consulate in the UK (had to go to Edinburgh has she couldn’get an appointment in Manchester)