Schengen PR Visa
Schengen PR Visa
You want to travel within the Schengen Area. Find out which countries belong to the Schengen Area and with which document you are allowed to travel within it. Also find out how long you are allowed to travel within the Schengen Area with that document
Schengen countries
The Netherlands is part of the Schengen Area. The Schengen Area consists of different European countries. There are no border controls within the Schengen Area. The Schengen Area consists of the following countries:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark (without the Faeroes and Greenland)
- Estonia
- Finland
- France (without French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion)
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Norway (without Spitsbergen)
- Poland
- Portugal (including the Azores and Madeira)
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Spain (including the Balearic and Canary Islands)
- Sweden
- Switzerland
Bulgaria, Cyprus, Ireland and Romania are not Schengen countries.
What is a residence permit?
If you are planning to move to Europe for a long period of time, a short-term tourist visa or seasonal worker visa is not going to work. You need a long-term visa or a residence permit that gives the right to stay in the country for long periods of time, leave and re-enter it without applying for a visa each time.
How to get European residence permit?
It is not enough to have a lot of money, you must have good reasons to want to relocate to Europe such as studying in a university, job offer, opening a representative office of an overseas company or an ambitious business project. Time-limited residence permit or a visa often restricts a migrant as to what they can and cannot do in the country; exception is an investor visa.
How to get residence permit to Europe?
There is one simple rule here, the more money you are ready to invest in a country in order to get a long-term visa, the less requirements the government of that country is going to ask you to meet.
To demonstrate this, let’s have a look at two UK visas and compare criteria for each one.
Requirement | Representative visa | Investor visa |
English exam | Required | Not required |
Job experience | Required | Not required |
Qualification and skills | Required | Not required |
Restrictions to what you can do in the UK | Yes | No |
Validity | 3 years | 3 years and four months |
What are advantages and disadvantages of European residence permit?
The key benefit is the right to live, study, work and/or do business in a democratic country. Other advantages include:
- Visa-free travel in Schengen zone (please bear in mind that the UK is not part of it and requires a separate visa).
- Healthcare in European centres and hospitals.
- Tax residency in Europe and tax optimisation.
Disadvantages of a residence permit
No matter how many opportunities it gives, this status has a validity; it must be extended before it expires (extension requirements, number of permitted extensions and periods vary from country to country). Besides, you would not be allowed to live in another European state either. Fortunately, if you live in a country that issued you a permit long enough, you will be eligible for permanent residence permit which offers more opportunities.
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