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Highly unlikely. France will be your first point of entry into the Schengen area so you are fine. If you still have concerns then keep your travel itinerary/hotel booking to later show that you spent time in Paris. Other option is take a one day ferry or Eurostar trip to France at another date (even Calais would do!) which would 'earn' you an entry and exit stamp.lilmeiow2008 wrote:But someone told my visa will be refused next time if I do not have French Immigration exit stamp. Is that true?
Often there is no real French immigration presence on the Dover-Calais ferry in either direction. If somebody is there they just wave you through. You have to go out of your way to stop and insist that they stamp your passport. Sad but true. So much for defending the external borders of Schengen-land.Plum70 wrote:Highly unlikely. France will be your first point of entry into the Schengen area so you are fine. If you still have concerns then keep your travel itinerary/hotel booking to later show that you spent time in Paris. Other option is take a one day ferry or Eurostar trip to France at another date (even Calais would do!) which would 'earn' you an entry and exit stamp.lilmeiow2008 wrote:But someone told my visa will be refused next time if I do not have French Immigration exit stamp. Is that true?
True - and if I recall correctly last time me and Mrs Simmo did this the French Border guards were positioned after we had already cleared the UK Border controls and she had already been stamped back into the UK.Directive/2004/38/EC wrote:Often there is no real French immigration presence on the Dover-Calais ferry in either direction. If somebody is there they just wave you through. You have to go out of your way to stop and insist that they stamp your passport. Sad but true. So much for defending the external borders of Schengen-land.Plum70 wrote:Highly unlikely. France will be your first point of entry into the Schengen area so you are fine. If you still have concerns then keep your travel itinerary/hotel booking to later show that you spent time in Paris. Other option is take a one day ferry or Eurostar trip to France at another date (even Calais would do!) which would 'earn' you an entry and exit stamp.lilmeiow2008 wrote:But someone told my visa will be refused next time if I do not have French Immigration exit stamp. Is that true?
Interesting. For Eurostar Paris, Eurotunnel Calais, and the Calais Ferry, I remember clearing French border controls (such as they exist) before then moving forward 10m to clear UK border controls.simmo wrote:True - and if I recall correctly last time me and Mrs Simmo did this the French Border guards were positioned after we had already cleared the UK Border controls and she had already been stamped back into the UK.
Same at Bruxelles-Midi...don't see the logic in the reverse.Directive/2004/38/EC wrote:Interesting. For Eurostar Paris, Eurotunnel Calais, and the Calais Ferry, I remember clearing French border controls (such as they exist) before then moving forward 10m to clear UK border controls.simmo wrote:True - and if I recall correctly last time me and Mrs Simmo did this the French Border guards were positioned after we had already cleared the UK Border controls and she had already been stamped back into the UK.