Travelling to Schengen with Ricevuta (for Permesso Renewal)

Once you are inside Schengen there are no checks for internal travel, so whether you have a carta or not is of no consequence. The whole concept of Schengen is to allow free travel between member countries.

Thank you for your response. For some reason, there is a very mixed response online. So if I am to travel to Germany from Italy via Flixbus, I can do so with my expired permesso and ricevuta?

Pete.au wrote:

Once you are inside Schengen there are no checks for internal travel, so whether you have a carta or not is of no consequence. The whole concept of Schengen is to allow free travel between member countries.

Thank you for your response. For some reason, there is a very mixed response online. So if I am to travel to Germany from Italy via Flixbus, I can do so with my expired permesso and ricevuta?

I've travelled to France, Portugal, Greece and Latvia in the last twelve months and only ever used my passport as ID.  I have a PdS and Carta d' Identita. Only need them in Italy.

Oh okay. Thank you once again for your response. Our situations differ because I'm an Indian passport holder and my long term student visa expired last November. So there are chances of me being asked for my permesso or visa.

Thank you though. Have a great evening.

you cant travel Shengen  if you dont have a valide PDS . with "Ricevuta" you can only go to your country with a direct flight .

Hey, I'm currently having the same issue. I had never had an issue with it before, but a couple weeks ago our bus was stopped along the border of France and they almost made me return to Italy! I would say definitely make sure you have the ricevuta, and any other kind of documentation that proves your legal status in Italy, just in case.

Traveling with ricevuta has always been a problem unless to your home country

@sakshi_178 Hi Sakshi, I came across this thread when i was searching for the same information. The only solution i could find was to get a provisional or temporary permit from the questura to travel to other schengen countries, which needs a bunch of documents and waiting in lines.

I was wondering if you had found a solution for this. 

Thanks!

@sakshi_178 hi I am wondering how your situation ended up? Did you travel with the receipt? I need to go to Portugal in September , I am Australian but my 90 days will end soon - I am waiting for my permesso di soggiorno appointment in October. So am hoping that the receipt I have is sufficient!

@claresull23 Hey, fellow Aussie wanting to know a bit more about this! Did your trip to Portugal go ok with just your receipt? or did you need to wait to be issued your permesso di soggiorno?

@Musicmels22 so do you mean if i have with me the ricevuta and my old permit reciept, i can travel to France because now i am confused, have already made plans but i have been seing different things online. I am also a student in italy.

@eomole55 Hi, I wanna ask how was your trip? Is it ok to use just ricevuta and an expired permesso to travel? Im going to Germany by plane with just ricevuta and Im little worrying if they're gonna ask for my permesso.

@Nguyen Quang4 it depends on which airport will you go by. I went to France this summer without a permesso di soggiorno (but my visa is still valid), they just opened my passport and stamped it. I went by Linate airport. I assume you're Viet so we have the same kind of passport. But other people I knew said that they checked it randomly on the bus so I'm not very sure about that. Maybe try to go to the questura and ask for the permesso earlier than the appointment date?

@Diem-Quynh Trinh Thank you for your reply!I think your case differs from mine since presumably, you made border entry into the EU through France right cuz you mentioned your passport was stamped. Unfortunately, it's impossible to ask for fastening the PdS process here and hence I think I will take the risk but I just want to know the consequence of being caught not having valid PdS lol. If it's more serious than just being deported to Italy then I'll consider staying in Italy this New year's eve.

Thank you Quynh once again <3

@Nguyen Quang4 hi... could you please let me know how did you end up? did you travel with the permesso receipt? I am an Indian with an Indian passport. I also have my Carta di identita and the patante italiana.  will these documents help?

@sophie064  hi... could you please let me know how did you end up? did you travel with the permesso receipt? I am an Indian with an Indian passport. I also have my Carta di identita and the patante italiana.  will these documents help?

@Mohan Sai Rapelly As I've read, as long as your passport is not in the category of those having exceptions to entry to the EU, and you don't have a Visa whatsoever then you can't travel in Schengen with just the receipt and a expired PdS. I asked the lawyer and they said the consequence of u being caught with an invalid document varies from being deported to just Italy to being deported to your original country and even going on the blacklist even when traveling between Schengen country members guarantee no passport check or border check, but sometimes they do the ambush (I met this situation once when landing in Poland). because of that I decided not to take the risk.