boxboy112 wrote:JBird wrote:Given the increasing problems facing Russian stars getting visas to go to Czechia, and the complicated travel arrangements, I wonder if there is any chance of Kitty Doll88 filming with VK Studio at home?
Is she back in Russia now? I was kind of hoping she would stay in the Czech Republic as long as possible. So many other promising Russian girls who started with NRX like Cyber Shot, Little Ninja and Meow Miu seemed to disappear from the scene and I have wondered if that was because they couldn't get a visa to Czech. I know we have a few scenes from the Prague studios, but Kitty has so much more to offer. I hope like hell she can make it back there! VK scenes would be better than nothing, but Kitty is a star! she belongs at GG, Gonzo, AGO et al.
The way Schengen visas are organised takes some working out. They permit free movement within the Schengen Area, including Czechia, Hungary and Spain, but none allow more than 90 days out of 180 to be spent in the Area.
No applicant can obtain a multi-visit one-year visa D unless they have had three short-term visas C, which can be single entry or dual entry. Single entry means no return is permitted once the Schengen Area is left, even if the visa has time remaining on it. Dual entry means a return can be made. Based on timings for shoots, Kitty Doll88 looks to have had 2 of the 3 short term ones she would require before maybe seeking to get a one-year multi-entry visa next year.
The rules the Czech authorities introduced on 25 October about not allowing Russian Federation citizens into their country even with a valid Schengen visa has made life much harder for Russian models. With rule changes also in other countries that formerly issued visas, notably Finland, the time Russian applicants have to wait for their visa looks to be increasing significantly based on press reports.
There are additional unhelpful factors. An applicant for a short-term visa may well end up with visa showing a month of validity BUT the duration of stay within that period, which starts when the Schengen Area is entered, varies and seems only rarely if ever to be as long as the visa period. The applicant seemingly has little or no influence over the length of the duration of stay. So for a model, a one-month visa may look pretty good on the face of it but if the duration of stay is only 10 days or 14 days, this makes organising shoots difficult for proprietors as well as models.
If a person outstays the duration of stay and is found out, she/he can be fined, deported and/or have a note made on the Visa Information System shared by all states in the Schengen Area. The bark may be worse than the bite there as I can't trace any instances of this happening. But if it did, that could compromise the possibility of obtaining another visa, which would not be a chance worth taking.