French Senator Proposes 6 month visa's

Thank you for this very interesting post.

"maybe second home owners in Spain need to form an alliance to put pressure on the Spanish government"

Perfect time for you to form the alliance Alfhapash !! Why wait for someone else to do it?

Steve 

I will think about that, does anyone already know of of one? The Uk has that is place for foreign nationals home owners or not.

Non residents pay for their property all year round, but I know some have sold due to the 90/180 days as they liked to be in Spain over the winter. It really is a bit of a non-sense. All politics, sadly!

Vote to become a Third Country, get treated as a Third Country. It's EU rules, not French or Spanish. And the UK was instrumental in setting up the 90/180 rule when it was an EU member. 

Hi Alfapash,

I assume you're referring to an article published on the Schengen Visa Info website today?

https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/french-senator-wants-france-to-issue-special-visas-with-longer-validity-for-second-home-owners/

It's worth noting that the first article referenced from The Connexion was actually published in March 2022 (it's behind a pay wall, so I haven't included the link).

The regional president for Comunidad Valenciana and Spain's Foreign Minister have also made similar statements, but as the Foreign Minister conceded, this is not a decision that Spain can make unilaterally; it has to be approved by the EU.

Kind regards, 

Kim

Re the UK being instrumental in setting up the 90/180 day rule: I always thought this rule was set up by the original EU Schengen countries, for the Schengen countries. As the UK was never a Schengen country I would have assumed they had no part in setting the rule. Perhaps that is wrong.

Rgds,

Aitch.

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Spanish nationals can stay in the UK for 180 days out of 360, fact.  I do believe that eventually countries within the EU will be granted the facility of making their own decisions re adapting the 90/180 rule, special visas etc (for second home owners). Similar discussions as this have been on the forum since Brexit, it’s ironic really that those who seem to gloat, and dwell on others misfortune with smugness, and say serve you right, are the ones who were lucky enough to have residency prior to Brexit, and in all honesty, most could not afford to do it now, you were lucky. So why not drop the I’m all right Jack attitude and have some sympathy for those who didn’t have the pre Brexit opportunities.

Well said , at last someone actually putting it into words.