 Since you are now in Germany, I suppose you have also visited one
office or the other to have this or that piece of paper stamped.
I remember my time of enrollment at the university in Marburg, when the
official had five rows with ten stamps to a row all stacked up in front
of him. With the unerring ability of an eagle to catch the tiny fish in
a stream way down below, that official knew practically blindfolded
where any given stamp was.
Last January, virtually unnoticed by everyone, the ordinance “(EU) No.
2133/2004 of the Council of December 13, 2004 to obligate the competent
offices of the member states to systematically stamp passports of
non-member states' citizens while passing an external border of the
Schengen States and thereby changing regulations of Schengen
Implementation Ordinance and the Common Handbook“ came into force.
This ordinance aims at having the possibility to determine by
uncontestable facts how long a third-country foreigner has been in the
country. The German authorities will now be able to monitor – by the
stamps in your passport – how many days of the allowed 90 days without
a visa you have been in Germany. They will now be reluctant to be
believe that you “really were” out of the country unless the series of
entry stamps in your passport prove your story. And if they do not, you
will have to otherwise show – with documents – that you were in another
country for some period.
 Alexander Baron von Engelhardt - Foreigners Attorney based in Berlin, specialising in domestic,
international, civil and commercial law. He also provides counseling
for start-ups.
Wilhelmstraße 94, D-10117 Berlin
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