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chrisso50 wrote on Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:52pm:
The report in the ‘Local’ was about a woman, a U.K. citizen visitor, who was trying to cross into Spain at the Gibraltar border, not Alicante. As she had not had her passport stamped when she had previously left Spain she was deemed to have overstayed her 90 days limit and after a couple of d...
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...ays in Gib she had to return to the UK.
Now the story begs a question. As she was on the Gib side, she had clearly left Spain previously, so why were Spanish border control being ‘awkward’? It was not as if she had slipped across unnoticed! And yes passports are scanned electronically pretty much everywhere, including in the UK. She could maybe have shown evidence of her travel out of Spain previously, etc.
The key issue is that residents with a TIE, don’t usually get their passports stamped - mine just gets scanned. But visitors usually do - however, if not, don’t just assume it hasn’t been scanned, and if it had not been stamped maybe it’s a good idea to ask Spanish border control to stamp it!
Chris
Cheers Chris. Would the fact that it was the Spain-Gib border make it any different from Alicante airport? Isn't it all Border Control operating the same function at the end of the day?
Also we keep coming back to this question about the "digital stamp". The local.es article talks about the physical stamp, or rather the absence of it as being the issue and Whoopydo who was waved through Alicante airport had his/her passport neither stamped or scanned. So where does Whoopydo stand if they want to return to Spain?
