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Regional president calls for Brits to stay more than 90 days Valencia regional government president Ximo Puig has asked tourism minister reyes Maroto to create a system allowing british nationals to stay in Spain longer than the stipulated 90 days in every 180. the issue came up once again recently
at the World travel Market in London, where Spain always has a pavilion with a number of individual towns holding stands within it. Although the ‘90-day rule’ is standard for the passport-free Schengen zone – meaning that, if a resident and citizen
from a country outside it spends 90 days in Spain, he or she cannot, for example, then spend a week’s holiday in France until the 180 days are up – nonSchengen European Union countries have always enjoyed some flexibility. Spending 183 days in a calendar
year in Spain automatically makes a person tax-resident in Spain, but british nationals who do not wish to commit themselves entirely to Spanish life in this way have often spent four or five months of the year at their holiday homes in the country, or popped back
and forth throughout the year, and still been able to take breaks in other Schengen countries. All this changed when brexit became effective – now, a british national caught overstaying their 90 days in every 180, if they are not resident in Spain, could be ordered to leave, fined and banned from returning to the Schengen zone for a set period of time. brits with residence in Spain are safe from this, and can still spend several months of the year in the UK if they wish. Otherwise, non-residents from the UK need a visa. Ximo Puig is concerned that the 90day rule, which automatically kicked in post-brexit, will not only affect brits with existing holiday homes in the region, but also resident brits – their family members in the UK are restricted as to how long they stay with them.
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