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We are going to Germany for the first time. Have you paid for flights and accommodation in advance. Do you have to show cash at the border or can you show a credit card statement? How is it better?
We are going to Germany for the first time. Have you paid for flights and accommodation in advance. Do you have to show cash at the border or can you show a credit card statement? How is it better?
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Since the time of visa-free travel, I have already flown 4 times to Schengen, including Germany. So far, they have never asked for proof of solvency.
I would not advise you to carry a lot of cash to Europe for security reasons, it is better on the map.
I would not advise you to carry a lot of cash to Europe for security reasons, it is better on the map.
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answered 6 years ago
If you are from France (as you designated yourself), then I inform you that there is no border between Germany and France as such. Nobody will ask anything. Normal pre-flight control. It's all in the Schengen area.
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answered 6 years ago
It shows me that the author is from Ukraine. Therefore, if
It is not difficult for you to take an extract (for free and without visiting the bank), then take it and feel calm. If you need to pay, then print a check at an ATM.
At 99.999999% you won't need it, but you will be more comfortable.
I agree that in Europe it is convenient to pay by card. You need very little cash
It is not difficult for you to take an extract (for free and without visiting the bank), then take it and feel calm. If you need to pay, then print a check at an ATM.
At 99.999999% you won't need it, but you will be more comfortable.
I agree that in Europe it is convenient to pay by card. You need very little cash
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answered 6 years ago
Usually there is nothing to show. What city are you flying into? In some cities, for example, in Hamburg and Cologne, they may be asked to show documents - any of those that are stated in the list of necessary ones. Somehow hotel reservations, round-trip tickets, if there is no biometer. Passports, invitations. And you may ask why are you going to Germany? How many days will you be there...
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answered 6 years ago
What kind of visa-free regime is this, if money is counted at the border?
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answered 6 years ago
ollennka so it's not about visa-free!) With a visa, the same requirements for everyone! In each country of the Schengen zone there is a requirement - what amount in euros or other banknotes should a person have for a day of stay in the country.
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answered 6 years ago
How is this not a visa-free matter? For a visa, a certificate from work or from a bank is included in the list of documents to the consulate. With what fright should a person carry a mountain of cash with him in our age of electronic money (and even, God forgive me, cryptocurrencies)?
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answered 6 years ago
ollennka, why did you get the idea that you need cash?) A bank card is enough. I don’t know if anyone had such a thing to ask .. usually not. They mostly look at tickets back. But in the USA they ask, I was a witness at the airport, the family was in line for control, a customs officer approached them, clarified their names and asked how much they were carrying, each! And those, at first, to put it mildly, were stunned, but then they answered him. And this is all orally, without any verification of documents ..
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answered 6 years ago
If a customs officer came up and asked, then there was information about the smuggling of currency.
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answered 6 years ago
zhdanova10, No. It’s just that not a single amount was declared, and this aroused suspicion - there are 5 of them in the USA for a long time and without money?))
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answered 6 years ago
lana_181, I didn’t take anything about cash, you mention banknotes in the previous answer. It’s even more interesting with a card - it doesn’t say on it how much money a person has in his account.
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answered 6 years ago
ollennka bye, you .. well, in the sense that money .. what's the difference in what they are? by card or cash? Well, do you literally understand everything that way?) But just on the map they can and have the right to check. This is all described in the EU requirements for crossing the border, that is, theoretically they can ask for a card and find out if there is money in the account. But it seems that there were no such cases .. but who knows there.
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answered 6 years ago
Well, let's say I show them the card, they call the bank... And what's next? The bank won't tell them my account information anyway.
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answered 6 years ago
ollennka, no one will call the bank, you are asked to enter the code and show the amount on the screen. - everything) so in theory.
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answered 6 years ago
I would, excuse me, send them in the forest with codes and amounts, this is confidential information. Customs has the right to be interested only in imported cash.
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answered 6 years ago
ollennka, apparently, has the right to do this, since it is written in the Schengen rules. They rummage in suitcases, and how! .And not only in suitcases.
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answered 6 years ago
Thank God, the Schengen customs officers have never rummaged through the chumadans. They rummaged only in Latin America, but there are wild people there, they are still looking for drugs ...
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answered 6 years ago
