What time does your flight land (local time)?

 

10:15 am.

 

In theory, you could enter on your US port on the Schengen version of a "visa waiver" - like you were a tourist. But I suspect you would have to return (to the airport perhaps?) on the day your long-stay visa is supposed to become effective. It's also possible that the airline may give you some hassle about boarding a flight for the day before your long-stay visa starts.

You might try ing the airline first to see if they can recommend how best to handle this situation.

 

I am a final year PhD student. I have my wife with me here in the UK. She is on student dependent. My student visa is expiring in 2026. I have a postdoc at my university and I am switching to global talent visa. I want to know
1. If I can apply for my wife, who is currently a student dependent, to switch to global talent dependent few months after my own application? what are the implications of this for ILR?
2. If I apply for global talent for 3 years and switch my wife later (say after a month of my own visa's approval) this mean she would have less than 3 years on the global talent dependent, does this means we would have to extend the global talent visa so she also has 3 years in order to apply for ILR?

 

Did you perhaps mean to post your query in the UK forum? Where you are talking about ILR, I suspect you'll be staying in the UK rather than coming to .

 

I just realized that the initial day of our VLS-TS visas is the day AFTER our planned arrival in Bordeaux (June 23 vs June 22). This is purely a goof-up on my part.

Our AirBnB is booked starting on the 22nd, and our flight from London GTW is on the 22nd. Do we have any grace from Schengen, or must I delay arrival? Delaying will be somewhat expensive.

You can still enter and enjoy up to 90 days of tourist travel. However, you must validate your VLS-TS within those 90 days. Once validated, your visa will be effective from the date it was issued. I hope this clarifies things for you.
Visa validation is now an entirely online process, making it quick and convenient. Good Luck!

 

You can still enter and enjoy up to 90 days of tourist travel. However, you must validate your VLS-TS within those 90 days. Once validated, your visa will be effective from the date it was issued. I hope this clarifies things for you.
Visa validation is now an entirely online process, making it quick and convenient. Good Luck!

How and where do I validate the visa?

 

Do you arrive at the time you have indicated on the 22nd or 23rd local time and date?

 

My visa start date is June 23. I arrive on June 22.

 

Whatever you do, be prepared for a little bit of "discussion" with incoming immigration control when they see your long-stay visa is not valid until the next day. If they question it, ask them what you should do before you propose any solution yourself and see what they say. (It may range from "oh nevermind" to telling you to return to the airport the next day to get your visa stamped with the proper date.)

It used to be that your visa had to be stamped with your entry date. With the new online validation system, that may or may not be part of the process, but if you were coming from a country without the Schengen "visa waiver" privileges, you would not be allowed to enter the country a day early like that. With everything now being done online, I suspect somehow that your entry date is recorded against your visa and if you don't do things properly somewhere something in the process isn't going to work. It may be a hassle to figure out ahead of time what you need to do, but it will be far more difficult to sort out if you just hoof it and wind up doing the wrong thing.

 

the problem can appear later as some paper work might need you to show the date of entry, if there is a mismatch between this and the visa dates it might cause issues.
Saying this, this was needed sometime ago when the online validation was not available ... now may be the validation document is all what matters... but you can never be so sure.