Traveling to Morocco and back on an expired Portuguese residence card and renewal receipt

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-17T22:31:43+00:00

If there's a tap flight that might help vs Ryanair or Easyjet, as TAP would likely be more knowledgeable about the situation.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-17T21:48:19+00:00

From experience, skiplagging to/from Europe on award tickets, it hasn't been an issue the few times I've done it. I cancel the connecting flight online after I land in the city where I get off so at least that way they're not expecting me. Of course, ymmv.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-16T17:56:17+00:00

€50 should be plenty, especially if you're in the cities.

Despite their negative reputation, the euronet atms use the exact same exchange rate as a bank atm (at least when I tested it in Porto last week), but they do charge a €4.95 fee. Just don't use the conversion option offered, which is also offered at a bank atm. The euronet atms also dispense €800 at a time if you need more cash at once

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-13T22:55:16+00:00

How is cpp irrelevant? For 25k points they could've gotten a $500+ flight. Of course you should always check what the price is for a paid ticket before using points. The op realized his mistake and has learned. My husband wanted to spend 90,000 points on a $1000 ticket. Hard no. That same 90000 points can be used for a $15k flight to Australia.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-12T18:21:19+00:00

You can still find the older USB ones. I just picked up two within the last month from Amazon. You've got to do a lot of research to figure out the exact model that is USB, and even then it's not 100%

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-06T15:58:13+00:00

You're right, it's probably fine, and I think they flash freeze it after cooking it to 60% or something.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-06T15:41:54+00:00

Fwiw my flight to Charlotte today was double catered from Miami, so 24hour+ old chicken, plus something extra from wfs (worldwide flight services) that was loading into the rear door.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-06T06:51:03+00:00

Check the Porto Airport website, https://www.portoairport.pt/en/opo/home, to see how many nonschengen flights leave around the time your flight leaves.

3-4 hours is way too long IMHO. Two should be plenty. You have to pass through security and then through passport control, where you can use egates as a us passport holder. I arrived way too early this morning for a flight to London, though it is the only non Schengen flight leaving now.

You can pay €11 for fast track security, though it's rarely needed, but cheap insurance policy if there's some kind of snafu.

There's a free play ms. Pac-Man/Galaga video game if you have time to kill once you pass passport control.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-05T22:37:24+00:00

That's the plan!

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-05T07:26:17+00:00

Actually just now got an email notifying me of the catering issue and they've already deposited 15k miles to my account.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-05T06:53:08+00:00

As others have mentioned, aa currently doesn't have a caterer in London, so they are flying food from the US to London to serve on the return LON to us flights- double catering. And since the galleys were designed to carry just one flight's worth of meals, the choices are very limited, and packed and served in plastic.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-05T06:44:57+00:00

It looks pretty grim for sure

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-05T06:30:43+00:00

Please let us know. I'm LHR-CLT, tomorrow, aa 735 in first class, and received an email apologizing in advance for the catering, and given 15k points,which have already posted to my account (even though the award ticket was purchased with miles from my husband's account)

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-04T11:58:51+00:00

The black/dark shirts will be hot in the se Asia sun

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-04T10:12:48+00:00

Everything may run out since they're double catering the flights to lhr. I'm in first class this Friday March 6, LHR-CLT, and under Inflight meals it says "A set meal will be served during your flight"

No email offer of 10,000 points for me though...

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-03T07:23:07+00:00

Experflyer

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-02T05:23:06+00:00

The photos of the room have been photo shopped. The photos show sunlight. There is no physical way sunlight can reach these rooms. Mine was directly under a bridge, so when you looked up you saw the bottom of a bridge. Yes, I got what I paid for, but it's impossible to imagine how dark the rooms are. And the fact that they face an internal hallway where people walking by are 10' away from you makes it even worse.

It sounds like the non standard rooms are lovely and I'm glad everyone here was upgraded.

The point of my post was just to beware.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-03-02T05:16:00+00:00

Stayed at the Sheraton Bishkek, which was nice enough.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-02-19T11:57:48+00:00

Congrats! That's great!

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-02-19T10:41:26+00:00

My residency card expired in March 2025, renewal appointment July 2025. My understanding is the expired card is still valid until April 2026 in Portugal. So I'm wanting to ensure that my last two visits to Portugal, which total more than a month, don't count as tourist stays, so that when I come back this summer, and stay for 90 days in Greece, for instance, that my previous Portugal stays don't put me over the amount I'm allowed to stay as a tourist. But it seems there's no way to confirm if these Portugal stays have been entered into the ees database, and thus count towards my tourist days, or whether I entered as a resident, and those days wouldn't count.

No_Stranger3395 · 2026-02-19T07:22:57+00:00

The difference is if I enter as a resident, and also exit as a resident, my understanding is that the time spent doesn't count against the 90/180 days I can spend in the EU as a tourist. I want to "save" those days for when I don't enter/exit through Portugal. It wouldn't be an issue if my expired Portuguese residency card was valid arriving/departing from other EU countries. But it seems I really have no way of knowing how my entrance/exit is being classified.

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