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Originally Posted by dv8
yes, minovio does have an american visa and he's had them all his life. he has also travelled to europe 4 or 5 times and had schengen visas. now, i know his grandma has multiple entry schengen visa (for 5 years) so should he try for that one too? we plan to travel to europe once a year so that may be wise.
can ANY embassy give him schengen visa?
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Does his grandma has a temporary residency for a European country maybe? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think European countries have something like a 5 year visa. There's either 3-month visa, longer visa for people working or studying, or provisional residency status. But maybe some countries have exceptions, and you could check what kind of visa Poland has.
Any embassy can give him a Schengen visa, as long as it is the one you are actually travelling to and the one you have someone inviting you.
I think there's plenty of options. But one thing I don't think will be possible is flying into Europe in one country and out from another on one-way tickets. This apart from the fact that one-way tickets are more expensive and often not even offered.
You could limit you trip to the UK and Poland, get visa for those countries, wait for the British charters to offer flights in the christmas period, and book book return flights DR-London and London-Poland.
Or, if you don't want to wait for the charters, you could book a return flight from the DR to a Schengen country (e.g. Madrid, Brussels, Frankfurt), and get one-way tickets from that airport to Poland, Poland to London, and London again to that airport. If you would only use the Schengen country airport for transit you would still only need a Polish and British visa.
Or, you could get all three visa (UK, Poland and Schengen), book a return flight now to Madrid, Brussels or Frankfurt, and travel around Europe on a Grand Tour as you please. But that would mean you would probably need an invitation from the Schengen country you're flying into first.
By the way, Aircomet already has pretty reasonably priced return flights from Santo Domingo to Madrid for the Christmas period. Fligths between Spain and the UK are normally very cheap, and probably Madrid to Berlin too. Any family in Spain?