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Q: How to applying for a business Schengen visa instead of a work visa?

I am a Filipino citizen living in the Philippines. I am working in a BPO (business process outsourcing) company and we currently acquired a new client from Spain. New processes needs to be learned and me and a colleague will be traveling to Barcelona, Spain for the training. We have provided the ...

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if you read through the comments, it starts getting off course. I'm not sure what to do about this one.

Also we have 5 Schengen visa questions unanswered. Any Schengen experts, this is your time to shine ;)

1:28 AM

if you have the rep to read this answer, it's quite entertaining

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3:30 AM

@MarkMayo which answer?

the one I link to

it's deleted,however, so if you don't have the rep, you won't be able to see it

dammit, you just answered another. How am I meant to catch you for the quarter? ;)

hehe

3:46 AM

I got the Belize one. Been doing it in breaks all morning.

ah, been looking at that. My spanish is not good, so I did not even try

just did the shengen double-entry one

My spanish is passable if I have google translate handy :)

I gave you the bounty for answering. That didn't help me catch you!!

hehe. I am abusing your bounties against you :D

@Dirty-flow has a bounty expiring in 6 hours

RUN! :)

3:55 AM

Gah, this one doesn't really have an answer, although it's been answered:

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Q: Long Stay Visa in Germany

I got selected to an incubator program in Germany and I'm a Sri Lankan citizen. I cannot seem to find the right type of visa I need to apply for. The Embassy told me it has to be Long Term Visa, but there are many categories. Does anyone know what I need to apply for? The program in Germany lasts...

10 questions without (upvoted) answers

yeah

ie feel free to upvote them to clear them from the list ;)

ah ok

yeah let me check, answering one right now

hu? I cannot find any? can you point me to the list?

ah, found it

4:47 AM

I think you've gotten confused about the difference between residence/permanent residence on the one you answered

hmmm saw your comment

4:57 AM

About to join this wonderful list of tag wiki editors - recommend everyone try and edit 50 tag wikis for the 2 year anniversary this week :)

@MarkMayo changed the question

I mean the answer

Mark

@MarkMayo does this include the wiki excerpts?

should do. When you edit one, look on the right hand side - it tells you the number you've done and the % towards the badge.

your link to test if you're a resident doesn't work for anyone else (it doesn't have your cookies)

(ie it breaks for me)

ah

will change

does this work: tools.hmrc.gov.uk/rift/screen/SRT+-+Combined/en-GB/… ?

@MarkMayo It does not seem to show me the percentages

hmmm now it shows after I saved it

but there is something wrong

It shows 2 tag wiki edits (4% done)

I did MUCH more than that

maybe it does not work when you edit the excerpt only?

5:24 AM

@MarkMayo: do you have a Travel-SE anniversary resolution list to ask a meta question every day that moderators need to know about? ;-)

I think you need to fill out both wiki fields, slacker ;)

and no, that hmrc link doesn't work either :/

@mindcorrosive, no comment ;)_

although meta is a lot quieter these days than last year ;)

because @hippietrail is nowhere to be found ;-)

but that's not necessarily bad

if you frequent other SE sites, some of their metas are littered with long-winded rants by disgruntled users that spark tensions, and we managed to avoid that

@MarkMayo found the right link now

The reason I like the high percentage answered? Check this list of ranks by percent answered - we certainly stand out :)

@uncovery waiting :)

tools.hmrc.gov.uk/rift

5:31 AM

@mindcorrosive true, haven't seen him in a while

and yeah, most of our rifts are in the chat :)

yeah we close all the questions that cannot be answered :)

yup, taht works for me

put it in the answer

I'll del my comment

did already

have a bounty.

thanks :)

5:34 AM

funny that one needs to test themselves to know whether they are a resident or not

Gotta beat @HaLaBi's score some day :)

saves on call-center costs ;)

flagged a non-answer for you, @mindcorrosive

a couple of days ago I thought I'd be friendly to @Annoyed after his meta post, and gave him some upvotes. I had it reversed by the algorithm for 'serial upvoting' :(

lol!

btw there has been as suggestion on MSO that moderator candidates should reveal previous transgressions, including suspensions, voting irregularities and the like

even to be made compulsory, like other candidate stats

SE Inc. community reps are not thrilled though, thankfully

Meh, I think that'd be ok, honesty is good

gives them a chance to account for their 'sins' as well

they may feel justified.

can we get their birth certificates too?

I think so to.. what's done is done, and no need to dig old smelly laundry from under the carpet

5:44 AM

dude, get a laundry hamper like everyone else ;)

I have a few, and one of them is labelled "Purple"

that quote's going on the board.

@mindcorrosive when you delete a new user's question that they posted as an answer, a comment first lets them know why. Yes you're deleting it, but they can still see it when they log in and can find out why their post was removed.

yeah, I usually do, but got distracted by our chat

thanks for letting me know

no worries ;)

yeah it stood out, normally there's a comment from one of you

ok one more schengen-question off the list

5:55 AM

just lost about 2.5 hours work when a colleague merged code badly. TFS can't handle tracking the changes, and my code got dumped. Sigh.

wow, good work

we can get to 0 by the anniversary!

speaking of Schengen questions, do you guys think we should have a more comprehensive CW answer to these types of questions? they are quite similar to one another, and most are duplicates (or could be, with the proper phrasing)

these one-sentence answers by karlson can be a bit unproductive at times. It gives the impression that the question is already answered when it actually is not

example?

in this one: travel.stackexchange.com/questions/18213/…

@mindcorrosive I was wondering about that earlier today. But I don't know enough about schengen to construct one. But one "how do I get a schengen visa?" CW might be good. Although Joel seems to be against CW posts these days.

5:58 AM

His comment: Generally speaking single people are more of a concern, so: A return ticket, a job offer from Indonesia would go a long way all that all these agencies are looking for is that you will leave.

bbl

he just commented, tho.

@mindcorrosive I'm somewhere to be found actually. What did I do this time? (-:

there used to be a good graph of rep/time on our profiles. It's been gone for a while tho :/

What didn't you do!

@MarkMayo: we have enough people to help with that, I should hope. Also, we can copy mostly verbatim the answers from other questions (with attribution, of course) instead of writing everything anew

True\

6:00 AM

@hippietrail: you are not participating enough in chat. a suspension is in order :-)

I thought it was that meta was quiet because of him

.. which admittedly would be counter-productive to your participation :)

lol

yeah i've been home too long. my internet credit ran out and i had to wait until pay day to afford more and i have a friend visiting so less nerd time (-:

but today i crossed my savings goal and a week or two ago i gave notice at work. just have to stop procrastinating and figure out where to store my stuff while i'm away

great!

where are you going this time?

@uncovery: you can use "> " in front of quotations, the four-space in the front is typically for code, and it doesn't do word-wrap

6:08 AM

down to 4 unanswered questions, all answered ones have at least one-upvoted answer.

i'm pretty sure i'll fly to the cheapest destination in SE asia and start hitchhiking and overlanding from there with the intention of getting at least to siberia

I'm so jealous

@MarkMayo you've been to at least half a dozen countries while i've been plopped down in bondi (-:

no I haven't, just Canada and the US :) (and Aus and NZ I suppose) - no new ones tho

lots of new states tho

but while it was fun, it was so easy. I miss the challenge of not knowing how to get out of the village you're in, and no internet and so on

like this:

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Q: Aktau, Kazakhstan to Bukhara, Uzbekistan?

I'm currently in Aqtau/Aktau, Kazakhstan. The trains look really tricky to get to Bukhara, and I'm wondering if there's a better way, as currently it looks like going back up the line to Beynou (no choice) at night, waiting until the early morning train from there to Nukus or Kungrad, and then d...

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Q: Getting from Askatran, Russia to Aktau, Kazakhstan

I'm in Astrakhan, Russia. There's very little information out there on buses or trains to use to eventually get to Aktau, Kazakhstan. bahn.de shows a 75 hour train with 3 changes, so I have no idea what crazy route that's taking as it's really not that far. I think in theory I can get to Atyrau...

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those were the days :D

Although I don't miss this problem:

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Q: Warfarin in Tajikistan

I've run into a major problem, requiring urgent Warfarin. However, am in Khorog, Tajikistan, and there's NONE in town, and the pharmacist at the hospital believes there to be none in the country, save for the 5 tablets in my bag. My question is, what would be the nearest city from Dushanbe that...

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I had an entire country's supply of a drug in my backpack :)

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Q: One Schengen-visa question to rule them all

We have currently 104 questions about Schengen visas, and admittedly that's way too much. Invariably, most of them are very similar -- for example, duration of multiple entry visa, point-of-entry different from issuing country, etc. You have seen them, and even an acronym popped up NASQ -- Not An...

6:18 AM

It would actually potentially be better as a blog post, with links throughout the blog to the various questions?

blog posts are kind of permanent, and visa rules can potentially change

fair point

we could start a CW post, and then as we cover other questions in it, close them as duplicates of the CW post?

yeah, that's what I was thinking of

so that eventually, all Schengen questions will lead there. We'll call it the Rome Schengen Question (all roads lead there)

new blog post on the same topic each year or each change

6:26 AM

one of the points of this is to be able to close new questions as duplicates without having to answer anew each time

surely not all questions are the same but many could be grouped into duplicate sets

schengen is not my forte though - they don't seem to push us aussies around very much

why not YASQ by the way??

it was late :)

JASQ?

(like JADE = Just Another Development Environment)

6:46 AM

@MarkMayo I thought that the idea of this site is to vote for (or against) questions and answers and not for (or against) users??? Somebody who wants to teach lessons others should be aware of that.

yup, and as soon as it got reversed, I realised why it was dumb. It had good intentions, but often those don't work well late at night :)

"Somebody who wants to teach lessons others"? I'm still a learner myself :)

@mindcorrosive thanks for the hint with > and the edit

That train question is bugging me. It's something that should so be online, but I can't find it.

the lastminute question is annoying. Why would someone assume that one page is ALWAYS cheaper than the other?

7:02 AM

morning ladies

well the answer might be 'the local version of the site for the destination of your flight' - eg flying to NZ, use lastminute.co.nz (just a theory)

but I bet it's not.

@MarkMayo it might still not be the cheapest

yeah (thus my last line). I guess if you can show two examples where it contradicts it (ie they aren't always the cheapest) then it'd be an answer basically saying "none of them".

will check that

8:03 AM

Ah nice, a downvote on a meta post, without explanation. Why even bother going on meta if one's going to do that? :/

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