2014年7月9日,欧盟委员会修订了《签证申请及变更处理手册 [1] 》。此手册是 《 申根签证规范(SCHENGEN VISA CODE[2] ) 》 的操作指南,亦针对于申根成员国[3]境内短期过境或停留的签证签发程序和条件作出了解释。
在上述规范及手冊的內容中,申根签证持有人近期最关注的话题,就是如何在申根境内申请延长申根签证,以延长在申根国家停留的时间。详细的法源依据及内容请参考下列说明。
依据申根签证规范( SCHENGEN VISA CODE )第33条之规定:
依据上述 《申根签证规范》第33条之规定,若申根签证持有人无法于签证到期前离开申根成员国之领土,《签证申请及变更处理手册》提供了以下的处理原则:
[1] based on COMMISSION DECISION C(2010) 1620, of 19.3.2010, COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
C(2011) 5501,of 4.8.2011, COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION C(2014) 2727, of 29.4.2014 https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/visa-policy/docs/20140709_visa_code_handbook_consolidated_en.pdf
[2] Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas (Visa Code) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32009R0810
[3] Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.
[4] Visa Facilitation Agreements (VFAs) between the European Union and certain third countries on the facilitation of the issuance of visas provide procedural facilitations to nationals of specific third countries (e.g. reduction of the visa fee, issuance of multiple-entry visas for specific categories of applicants, shorter processing times) without altering the conditions for issuing visas (i.e. the visa applicant must still satisfy the entry conditions).
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