Commute

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 2:08am

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Probably a silly question now I have read all the rules now we are no longer in the EU.

My partner and myself have always wanted to live somewhere with lovely weather and ideally this would be Australia. However our age goes against us so that is impossible. We still need to work and have jobs which would enable us to commute back and forth to Spain. Is this even possible? To live in Spain whilst commuting to England every 2 weeks. Would we need to be residents? We would still have our house in England to stay in.

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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:33am

GrahamLynn

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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:33am

In theory then yes, you would have to work the 90/180 day rule. You could spend two weeks in Spain and two weeks in the U.K. and with a few extra days per year spent in the U.K. this should just keep you under the threshold of not being a resident nor being a fiscal resident.

In practice the cost of commuting would be horrendous as well as the stress that goes with airline travel nowadays. Your passport would fill up with stamps pretty quickly.

As well as keeping a strict watch on the Schengen calculator,you’d probably need to keep extremely accurate travel records to satiborder control.

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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 9:07am

And0607

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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 9:07am

GrahamLynn wrote on Thu Jul 28, 2022 6:33am:
In theory then yes, you would have to work the 90/180 day rule. You could spend two weeks in Spain and two weeks in the U.K. and with a few extra days per year spent in the U.K. this should just keep you under the threshold of not being a resident nor being a fiscal resident.
In practice the cost of commuting would be horrendous as well as the stress that goes with airline travel nowadays. Your passport would fill up with stamps pretty quickly. ...

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As well as keeping a strict watch on the Schengen calculator,you’d probably need to keep extremely accurate travel records to satiborder control.
Lynn

Thank you Lynne. I was hoping that travel conditions will improve with time and the cost of flights lower once they all sort themselves out. Maybe that is just wishful thinking!