If you are a non-EEA national (including British) and wish to stay in Spain for longer than 90 days, you will need a visa. You should apply for the visa that suits your purpose from a Spanish Consulate in your home country.
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If you are a non-EEA national (including British) and wish to stay in Spain for longer than 90 days, you will need a visa. You should apply for the visa that suits your purpose from a Spanish Consulate in your home country.
Therefore, you need to leave Spain (or any other Schengen country) immediately after the 90-day limit is over. You will then need to wait 90 days after leaving Spain (or Schengen) before you can enter again without a visa.
Penalties For OverstayingVisitors who overstay beyond 90 days are subject to potential sanctions. They may be fined for every extra day they spend in the country, forced to leave, or banned from entering Spain or any other Schengen nation in the future. For gross violations, a jail term may be the consequence.
If you are a non-EEA national (including British) and wish to stay in Spain for longer than 90 days, you will need a visa. You should apply for the visa that suits your purpose from a Spanish Consulate in your home country.
If you don't leave Spain after 90 days, you would be in an irregular situation. In other words, you would be in the country illegally. Thus, in the eyes of the immigration law, you would be committing a serious infraction that could result in significant penalties and/or fines.
Does Spain want to abolish the 90 day rule? Spain's Tourism Secretary, Fernando Valdés, has confirmed that Spain is planning to request the removal of the current 90-day limit on tourist stays for British citizens.
Once you have obtained Spanish citizenship, you are considered a Spanish national and no longer a citizen of the UK in the eyes of Spain. As such, your British identity documents and any associated rights do not apply in Spain.
UK nationals can stay a maximum of 90 days in 180 days in Spain. The Spanish government would like to remove the obstacle to allowing UK citizens to stay in Spain for more than the permitted period.
First, let's understand the rule: The Schengen law states that you can't stay in the Schengen Area for more than 90 days. If you do, you're subject to a fine and possibly deportation and being banned from re-entering the Schengen Area.