asylee01 said:i know as an asylee you don't have to have a visa on RTD but what if i wanna travel to both Germany and go to Holland from there, do i still need a visa to travel to Holland ?? do i need to get it from here before travelling? help please
ok legally you need a visa to go to holland but not in germany as you just mentioned in your posting but ll tell you what a do every time when I go to europe I land in frankfurt from there take a train but not a slow train because in the slow or regulare train there is a passport control so if you are inluck you gonna find your self in a little trouble not big deal all they will do is to send you right back in the hand of germany border police for few question and be relised by telling you sir you don't like germany? if you give any reson they gon to tell you well don't cross their border again with out visa here is the number for their visa section and do you want me to call a taxi for you ? yes bye -bye so in orther to skip all this B.S take a (TGV) or (talys) those are no stop train and verry verry fast but its gone to cost you more and save your time and keep's you a way from passport control ps: they don't have faste train in frankfurt you will take a regular one from frankfurt to kolonasylee01 said:i know as an asylee you don't have to have a visa on RTD but what if i wanna travel to both Germany and go to Holland from there, do i still need a visa to travel to Holland ?? do i need to get it from here before travelling? help please
asylee01 said:i know as an asylee you don't have to have a visa on RTD but what if i wanna travel to both Germany and go to Holland from there, do i still need a visa to travel to Holland ?? do i need to get it from here before travelling? help please
BOSS tell me about your 38 euro deal please I do need onewantmygcnow said:You do need a visa but you can get away without needing one. I landed in Germany in summer of 2004 and wanted to travel europe. So I went to Switzerland, Amsterdam, Austria, Italy without ANY VISA. I was on the ICE(the fastest train) and was checked by 4-5 Police Controls on the Train. I gladly showed my U.S Travel document and no one turned me around.
Point is, you can get away with it but i don't know if I was lucky or if that was just how it is always. However I should tell you this, Before travelling to Italy(as I heard italian police are nasty), I did go to Italian Consulate in Dusseldorf and asked them If I need a visa...They said I DO NOT NEED A VISA since Germany doesn't need a visa. However Italian embassy in the U.S Requires a visa to travel with a RTD.
So if you can get a Visa get it. If you can't then just Travel and act dumb when stopped by police say that "Mr. policeman I thought germany doesn't require a visa so I thought Holland doesn't either."
I did my adventures because I didn't really cared if i was turned around as I was on a "weekend" ticket and it was 38.00 Euros anywhere in europe..
And I left to JFK from Milan, Italy and officer never asked why you don't have a visa.
lacoste said:BOSS tell me about your 38 euro deal please I do need one
cadel said:RTD holders don't need a visa to go to Germany.But from Germany you can travel anywhere in shengen countries.But keep in mind this operation is illegal,since there is not shengen visa in your document.Germans stamped your document but this allows you to stay only in Germany for up to 3 months.Since a stamp in your document is not a visa,you're gonna be illegal in France,while a person who has an italian visa is legal in France.
rgebru said:Annaraka,
I'm confused. If you have a GC, then why did you use an RTD? If you don't have a national passport, how hard/easy was it to get your residence permit in Holland? My situation is that I have an RTD and was told by the German Embassy in Boston that although I will be able to travel there etc, I might haved difficulty or it might even be impossible to get my work/residence permit since my RTD expires in a year (actually mine is going to expire middle of May already). Anyways, did you have issues with that?
Thanks.
Ruth
annaraka said:Hey Asylee01,
I just went through that this year. If you have a RTD, then you need to apply for a visa to the consulate of the country where you are first entering, or the country where you will be spending most of your time. They ususally ask to see your living arrangements for the time that you will be staying, i.e. hotel, family, etc.
You cannot stay more than six months there, unless you leave EU at least once during that time. You also need to get travelers insurance, and you can buy it on the net.
Now, say you are staying in Germany, and you apply for a visa at the German consulate in your city. You will receive a Schengen visa for the amount of time that you intend to stay there. The Schengen visa will allow you to travel to all of the Schengen countries, meaning the EU countries that are in the Schengen agreement. Those are almost all EU countries with the exclusion of Switzerland, UK, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia I believe.
I know that with a Schengen visa you can travel from Germany to Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden etc.
I aplied in January for a visa to Holland, I got my visa for three months, and then I went to all of those countries that I mentioned above, no one ever asked to see my passport anywhere, as these countries have now integrated into EU, there are no borders, other than UK, Switzerland who do not belong to Schengen.
Later, I got a residence permit in Holland because I was working there, and I stayed for 7 months and traveled without any problems. (I had to come back to US once in order not to lose my 6 month continuos physical presence provision for GC though)
But anyway, good luck, it is not a problem and you do not need to apply for a visa to every country that you want to visit, so long as it is a Schengen country.
Check out these websites
http://www.eurovisa.info/SchengenCountries.htm
http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/willkommen/einreisebestimmungen/schengen_html