mac19406: Yes, according to the German Consulate in San Francisco, CA they can only give a visa for 90 days, which you have anyway. If you want a longer visa you have to do it in Germany about 60 days in. They gave me a paper that says you must go to the nearest Auländerbehörde (Office of Foreign Affairs) to your place of residence. (You need a local address for any country's visa.) I can .pdf this page and send it to you if you give me your address, mine is whitedragon*at*bobkatsjaunt*dot*com. The web address I have for the forms is no longer working at http://germanembassylusaka.port5.com...formation.html.
hook: We've been to Europe twice in the last year, March 2006-Frankfurt Germany and Sept 2006-Lisbon Portugal and each time there was only a date stamp of entry. Neither time did they say anything or add any comments to the passport. I think it is up to you to know the law. As I said earlier it could be hard to catch you overstaying, particularly if you got a new/renewal passport without any stamps. They didn't record anything in a computer. The new US ones with RFI could do a recording automatically and may change this situation. The computer could check your dates of entry/leaving and flag the control officer of a problem.
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