Dear all,
I'm from South Korea. I am staying in Italy for more than one year illegally as a traveler (Koreans are granted to stay without visa for 3 months) and even used my mobile phone of my identity here (precisely a sim card that I bought with my passport). I would like to know if the Italian authority can check my whole (including illegal) stay history in Europe when I apply for a visa to Italy.
Theoretically, I can claim that I was traveling around Schengen area because there is no passport control, and no logs remain. Also I went from Italy to Croatia once, and when I entered Schengen area again, there was no passport control fortunately. (So there is a log that I left Schengen area, but no log to enter here.) And soon I will leave for Korea from Italy. (So my passport will have logs like this: Korea-->Italy, Italy--> Croatia, and after one year, Italy-->Korea.) Regarding the rule that I shouldn't be in Schengen area for more than 3 months, I may claim that I was in those countries where a bilateral agreement has priority than the Schengen agreement.
But the problem is the mobile phone. I bought the sim card with my passport so that if the authority want to check, they may see the fact that I used the phone continuously in Italy.
Will they check mobile phone use logs? Will they reject my visa application because of the phone usage or unclear passport logs?
Best regards.
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