I have a polish type-D visa (multiple entries) and wanted to go to portugal for christmas. A friend told me that according to the embassy in his country this visa only allows to enter poland, but not other schengen countries, but I when I search online, it says that I can actually travel within schengen countries.
Does anyone know if I would be able to travel to portugal with my visa?
no border control between Poland and Portugal; they do not therefore check passports/vias
Actually they do. I'm always surprised by people who don't understand the workings of neoliberal governance. Schengen is less about making things easier for travellers and more about reducing expenses.
Most routine border document checks are now down by the staff at the check-in counter. If they don't like your documents they either don't issue a boarding pass or they alert security.
Even the check in machines usually have passport readers.
I've tried to just use karta pobytu at check in in Poland and they always ask for a passport (which I do have I'm not crazy). Coming back to Poland is another story, since most check in staff in other countries just assume the karta pobytu is a national ID.
In non-Schengen using the pasport and karta together makes things faster (since when I fly it's sometimes to places that don't have many Americans passing through).
only applies to flying. Go by car, train or bus and no check in
Poland to Portugal by car, train or bus is quite a trip.... Though it does make you wonder why they still bother on planes at least within the EU/Schengen
I have noticed that all flights coming from Germany and Netherlands esp are checked.I always see border guards outside the plane in the jet bridge checking passports and IDs.Cpl of my friends also have confirmed that.My friend who drives to Amsterdam has been stopped many times by the border areas by the Polish guards.
