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I'm a non-EEA citizen, I don't require a visa to stay in a Schengen country for up to 90 days in a 180-day period. After staying in the Schengen zone for two months, I requested in advance to extend my visitor's stay for another 90 days in the country I've been currently staying. My request was approved, but along with my approval letter I also received a letter which I will need to submit to the local authorities at the airport upon leaving the country. In this letter, the authorities are instructed to promptly send by email to the immigration office the following information:

  1. my immigration office case number;
  2. the date of my departure;
  3. the country I'm departing to.

Now, the most interesting part to me here is the following: when my visitor's stay extension request was being processed, I was requested a couple of additional documents, among which there was a return ticket to the country of my citizenship. I didn't have a ticket at the time, but to satisfy the request I booked a rebookable/refundable ticket to the country of my citizenship.

Now, with that in mind, what if my plans change down the road, and I will need to fly to a different country, not to the country of my citizenship? In other words, will the local immigration office, for whatever reason, find it "suspicious" that, instead of returning to the country of my citizenship, I decided to fly elsewhere?

Personally, I see nothing suspicious, but I think that every small detail may be important in these matters. After all, why does the immigration office want to know where I left, not just that I left in time?

To recap (or ;TLDR):

  1. I requested to extend my visitor's stay beyond 90 days, but I didn't specify in my application that I had the intention of returning to my country of citizenship upon the expiry of my extended permit (but, of course, I did specify that I would necessarily leave the Schengen country from which I requested the extension).

  2. I was requested a return ticket to the country of my citizenship (I don't know why). I satisfied this request, although I didn't with absolute certainty know that I would necessarily leave the present country of my stay for the country of my citizenship and not for another country.

  3. Upon leaving, I will need to submit a letter to the airport authorities, which will promptly notify the immigration office by email when and what country I left for. (Why do they want to know this?).

  4. If it turns out I will need to leave the Schengen country of my stay not for the country of my citizenship, but for another country, will the immigration office find it suspicious? What can possibly happen to my future admissibility to the current Schengen country which has approved my stay prolongation, and what could possibly happen to my admissibility to the wide Schengen area?

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    @o.m. It is Sweden that gave me the extension. Sweden will know promptly that I have left the country, because of the letter that I will hand to the Swedish airport authorities.
    – sequence
    Commented Nov 12, 2021 at 15:48
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    IANAL but it seems to me that the terms on which your extension was granted include returning to your country of citizenship (typically the only country that cannot refuse to admit you, unless you hold a valid residence permit from elsewhere). That was what you said you’d do when you applied for the extension. Personally I wouldn’t consider changing the return home plan without first checking with the Swedish authorities.
    – Traveller
    Commented Nov 12, 2021 at 16:40
  • This is completely unrelated to Schengen regulations (and slightly somewhat at odds with them; it would make more sense to issue a visa or temporary residence permit rather than this visa extension which isn't quite a visa and is bound to look strange to border guards in other contries). Consequently, you could drop any reference to Schengen in the question and make it explicitely about Sweden. Would that be OK for you?
    – Relaxed
    Commented Nov 12, 2021 at 18:30
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    To be more specific: There is no such thing as a Schengen visa prolongation nor any provision for extension of short stays beyond 90 days under Schengen rules. From the perspective of the Schengen regulation, the only things that could cover such a stay would be national long-stay visas or residence documents, or possibly a limited territorial validity visa.
    – Relaxed
    Commented Nov 12, 2021 at 18:33
  • @Relaxed I have specific questions about the Schengen area.
    – sequence
    Commented Nov 12, 2021 at 18:49

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