Can I temporarily work in my company's office in the Schengen area on a type C Schengen visa working in the UK on a Tier 2 visa?
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Schengen visas (Visa Category C) can be issued for short-term stays of up to 90 days in countries in the Schengen area, e.g. for visits, tourism or business purposes, or medical treatment.
The consulates of the signatory countries of the Schengen Agreement are responsible for issuing Schengen visas....
Economic activity
As a rule, you are not permitted to work with a Schengen visa.Otherwise, your visa states whether and to what extent you are permitted to work.
If the C-Visa explicitly states that work or Business is allowed in the Remarks area then you can, otherwise you cannot do so.
Application for Schengen Visa (Link to Application Form Pdf for Germany)
- Hauptzweck(e) der Reise / Main purpose(s) of the journey:
- Geschäftsreise / Business
- Hauptzweck(e) der Reise / Main purpose(s) of the journey:
When checking Geschäftsreise / Business then
- GESCHÄFTSVISUM will be added to the REMARKS field of the C-Visa (as seen in the second Image below).
Multiple purposes can be selected, each one being added to REMARKS.
Each country does this differently:
Annex 22 1 National entries in the "comments" section of the visa sticker
For the sample Business (not all countries have this category)
- BENELUX (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg)
- BNL 13 : visa issued for "business purposes".
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- C/VF/01/-/--; multiple-entry visa for up to 90 days – commercial
- Hungry
- Üzleti / Business**
- Italy
- "AFFARI" (business)
- Latvia
- "BUSINESS"
- Malta
- MT12 - Business purposes
- Poland
- 04 - Business purposes
- Slovenia
- poslovno (business)
- Slovakia
- obchodná cesta (business trip)
- Spain
- TRABAJO (work)
- Sweden
- "Affärsanledning": Business
- Switzerland
- Business
Standard C-Visa issued for the whole Schengen Area
This one says Visitor Visa - Working not permitted
- this is the new sticker type visa
A Business C-Visa must be explicitly applied for and the application must include
- Company covering letter with entire travel plan (itineary)
- Invitation letter from the business partner
This one says Visiting-/Business Visa - Working not permitted
What you will need is a short term D-Visa that allows you
- to work (training is considered work) for a specific period
- at a specific firm in a specific country
This one says Student Visa for Uni X - Working permitted according to bla bla bla...
- notice also that it is only valid for a specific country and a date from/to
- valid for other Schengen Countries vists where the 90/180 days rule applies
A D-Visa is a national visa for a specific purpose and should not conflict with an existing long term C-Visa that serves a completely different purpose.
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Other answers give you the technical details about what visa you need to work in Germany, but since your write "as an employee I may be allowed to work there for a week or two for the experience, and to get to know the team there" let me explain how this normally happens.
The definition of "work" for visa purposes may be different from the common one. Things you are allowed to do on a normal business visa include:
- Learning how colleagues in other countries do things
- Consulting with colleagues in other countries about how you might do things better
- Planning for work you might be doing
- Reviewing work you have done
- Having meetings to discuss past or future work, including getting to know colleagues in other countries
You might think of these as "work" , but Schengen and other countries normal consider work to be only "productive work". For example, if you were a software developer then time spent discussing architecture or reviewing customer feedback doesn't count as work. And there are some grey areas - for example if you need to test whether a particular architecture is feasible, you might write some code to test it. And it's far from unknown for visitors to do occasional bits of their "normal work" in between the meetings, and nobody will object to that.
It would be normal that "going to to Germany for the experience" could easily covered by the above legal activities. If your primary purpose is consultation, discussion and training, and your visit is only for a few weeks, then you should be fine. I and my colleagues have done this many times perfectly legally over the last 20 years.
Your company should be able to give you good advice. And it is important, when talking to immigration, to describe what you are doing as "meetings learning and discussion" and not "work".
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