Finland Detains Russian Couple for Overstaying in Schengen Area for Almost 100 Days
During their stay in Spain, the couple had also given birth to a child, AtoZSerwisPlus.com reports.
The border guard has also pointed out that throughout the inspection became clear that the mother, who was about to give birth, had arrived in Finland on November 5 last year through the Vaalimaa border crossing, claiming that she was travelling to visit her parents.
From there, she made her way to Spain, where the father of the baby had already travelled a day earlier through another country.
As the border guard explains, the new father’s unauthorised stay in the Schengen area was 96 days long, while the mother’s was 95 days. As a result, a request has been made to the Immigration Office for the transfer of persons and the imposition of an entry ban on them.
Since September last year, when the Finnish authorities decided to limit the entry of Russian citizens into the country for tourist purposes, the number of people trying to enter Russia illegally from Finland has increased.
At the same time, the number of those who stay in the country more than they are allowed has also increased.
Among other cases, in February 2023, through the Vaalimaa border inspection in Finland, it was discovered that a Russian citizen had stayed in Finland without a residence permit for more than three years. After the same was detected, the Immigration Office banned him from entering the Schengen area for three years as well.
Whereas in November last year, the Border Guard also arrested a Russian woman after she was travelling with a forged passport crossing from Finland to Russia.
The border guard found that she had stayed illegally in the Schengen area for a total of 359 days from July 9, 2021, to November 3, 2022. During the investigation, border inspectors said that the Schengen border inspection stamps on the Russian woman’s passport did not match the original stamps and that her account of the length of her stay was not reliable.
As SchengenVisaInfo explains, an overstayed visa in the borderless territory never goes unnoticed, and no overstay goes unpunished. As a result, any person who does this can be deported immediately or banned from entering the Schengen Area for a certain time. However, it does not matter if a person enters the Schengen territory with a Schengen visa or is a citizen of a country for which the visa waiver has been applied, none of them are allowed to stay for more than 90 days.