Hello all.
Can anyone please confirm/give personal experience upon this YouTube video which I have recently stumbled across regarding easily extending Schengen Tourist Visa from 90 to 180 days "Portugal only"?
https://youtu.be/RmHRW6D1IUI
This sounds way too easy to me, I can see no reference to this on SEF website and have had bad experience with belligerent SEF office in Albufeira in 2020 trying to do this exact thing for my partner.
Having attended an interview compete with documentation (inc. joint bank statements, utility bills, health insurance cover, past travel history etc) over past few years, I was repeatedly told "go talk to a lawyer"
(Ca-Ching!! - another story 🙄).
At the time I pointed out to SEF that a chance encounter with a passport immigration official at Faro Airport who gave us unsolicited advice to us to apply for a Portugal Only Schengen Extension.
That has been the only other time that I've heard of this route.
Surely, if it was that simple, SEF would simply have asked us to provide the fee and the copies of passport photos - which we had - to make life easy rather than being obtuse and difficult.
I am a UK Citizen, and a Portuguese Resident now and at that time, my partner of many years being non UK, non EU.
Any advice or insight would be gratefully received.
Thanks.