Shengen visa question.....

[basherX]

Hoepfully someone can set my mind at rest with the answers to the following questions....

A colleague of mine is an Indian National currently working in Chennai. During a stay in the UK last year he was given a multi entry Dutch Shengen visa which expires in 2015 to allow him to visit our office in the Netherlands (which he did so the visa is active). He's coming back to the UK in May for a 12 month assigment and I want to send him to our office in Spain early in this as the person he's taking over from is currently based there. We're seperately arranging his UK visa.

Questions:
1) On the basis of his Shengen visa could I ask him to travel direct to Spain from India?
2) If that's not possible, can he simply fly from London to Madrid once we've settled him in here?

Apologies if these are basic questions but I can't really deal with the loss of face if he ends up stranded at immigration somewhere and our HR team aren't being terribly clear.

Cheers

[Puggit]

Certainly my Russian colleagues can travel anywhere to or within the Schengen area on just a Finnish visa.

[DBSV8]

Puggit said:

Certainly my Russian colleagues can travel anywhere to or within the Schengen area on just a Finnish visa.

I think you have to arrive in the Schengen country of origin first , then from there travel wherever you like within the Schengen countries .

So if they have a Dutch visa , they would have to fly from India to Schipol then on to Spain , not direct to Spain

or from India to UK - Holland - Spain

check with the issuing authority ( Holland ) for clarity

Edited by DBSV8 on Monday 8th April 13:46

[Puggit]

My Russian colleagues all go to Helsinki as it's an easy journey to get their visas, but can then fly direct to the country of choice from St Petersburg. However, they need to visit Finland as many times as their non-Finnish trips.

Bizarre.