No. of Recommendations: 6
As most folks here probably know, US passport holders can stay up to 90 days in any 180-day period in Schengen countries without any special visa. What I didn't understand (but do now, thanks to the EU website) is that this means that an uninterrupted absence of 90 days from those countries allows for a new stay of up to 90 days. Thus, US passport holders could live nearly 6 months in total out of every year in the Schengen zone.
For DW and me, this works fine. So, I don't think we'll pursue obtaining a "passive income" visa for France or Italy unless a certain former President should happen to get elected this fall. :-)
No. of Recommendations: 3
For DW and me, this works fine. So, I don't think we'll pursue obtaining a "passive income" visa for France or Italy unless a certain former President should happen to get elected this fall. :-)
FWIW the immigration attorney I'm working with in Portugal is expecting an enormous increase in visa applications as the election approaches, and their immigration system is already backed up. No way of knowing how bad it might get but it's plausible that expatriation, asset extraction, and long-term visas could all become far more difficult if not impossible, in a relatively short time. Then again the US as a whole might be no worse than, say, Mississippi or Alabama is today.
