Content Warning: This story contains themes of mental health issues, suicide and physical violence.
Prosopagnosia v. Cotard's Syndrome
My new doctor - a bright and friendly guy named Sarbjit - took the time to explain his diagnosis to me. He told me my condition was mental, not physical, but it was hard to pay attention to everything he said because my left arm was numb and rotting from the inside out. I smiled and nodded and then when I got home I looked up Cotard’s Syndrome online. Here is what Wikipedia had to say on it.
“Cotard's syndrome, also known as ‘Cotard's delusion’ or ‘Walking Corpse Syndrome’, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs.”
I don’t know. Sounded extremely strange to me. I just knew my left arm was dying. Maybe my liver too. I used my right arm, the good one, to open my mail. Most of it was just the normal stuff but when I saw the letter from the Supreme Court of the State of New York I got a little worried. I was here legally - a citizen for almost ten years now - and I knew my rights but being summoned to testify at this criminal trial was a bit unnerving. I didn’t like it. I just try to do my best in this life and mind my own business and not cause problems for others.
When my trial appearance date arrived two months later I took the subway downtown and left my assistant, Stavvy, in charge of the office that day. I sat there on a hard wooden bench in the courtroom all morning listening to the testimony of other witnesses but I wasn’t called to the stand until sometime after we returned from lunch. Eventually, the lawyer for the defense called my name.
She mispronounced it of course - people here always mispronounce Albanian names - so I wasn’t surprised when she called me Mister Shka-Rell-Eee. My surname is Shkreli, after the place where my family comes from, and the proper pronunciation contains only two syllables - Shkrell-Eee. I was trying to hold my left arm in place when she asked her opening question.
Where was I at the time of the murder?
“Well, Miss Anderson” - I pronounced it Ahnd-REE-Sawn, drawing out the first and last syllables while placing too much emphasis on the middle one, intentionally - “I am not entirely certain. That was over a year ago and I travel all around this city on a daily basis for my job. I work in computer repair and IT support and I have customers in all five boroughs.” (This wasn’t exactly true. I wasn’t really willing to travel to Staten Island.) We had spoken four months earlier when she informed me of the questions she intended to ask at trial but I was fairly oblique then and I intended to remain so now. I had bigger problems. Could these people not see that my left arm was rotting away?
She looked at me with a furrowed brow and briskly walked back to the defense table, picked up a leather-bound notepad and opened it.
“Mister Shkreli, when you and I spoke on June 18th you confirmed that you were just leaving a client’s office, TRG Commercial Realty, located at 223 Broome Street here in lower Manhattan at approximately 3:30pm that day, shortly before the incident at issue took place less than one block away. Is that not correct?”
I turned up my native eastern European accent a bit and repositioned my left arm in my lap. I could barely feel it at that point. What was wrong with these people?
“If you say so. Like I said, that was over a year ago and it was just another workday for me.”
She stared at me for a beat or two longer than necessary and then flashed a quick look towards the jurors before continuing.
“Well yes, Mister Shkreli” - again it was Shka-Rell-Eee - “You did tell me that and I do have a recording of our conversation, which you consented to before we began, if the court would like this to be entered into evidence?”
She looked at the judge and the judge looked at me.
“Mister Shkreli,” - he too pronounced it Shka-Rell-Eee - ‘Are you refuting the testimony that Miss Anderson is referencing during your preliminary deposition or can we just move on at this point? If counsel for the defense claims to have this recording I am fairly certain this is true. Will it be necessary to enter this recording into evidence at this time or are you willing to acknowledge Miss Anderson’s claim?”
I repositioned my left arm in my lap and nodded.
“That’s fine, Your Honor. As I said, it was just another workday for me but if Miss Anderson says that is what we discussed I am sure she is probably right.”
The judge nodded back at me. “Very good. Let’s proceed then.”
Miss Anderson walked back to the defense table and dropped the leather-bound notepad before continuing with her final question for me, looking annoyed.
“Picking up where we left off, Mister Shkreli, can you please describe for the court what happened immediately after you left the offices of TRG Commercial Realty at 223 Broome Street on the date in question, October 22nd of last year?”
I didn’t like the way that she was trying to fence me in but I wasn't particularly concerned. I had bigger problems.
“Well, like I said, I don’t really remember that day. There was nothing memorable about it. It was just another day.”
She stared at me for a few seconds then flashed a quick look at the jury box with her eyebrows raised before returning her attention to the judge. “No more questions, Your Honor.”
I was dismissed from the stand but asked to remain in the courtroom as she called her next witness; a small, frail woman from Queens about my same age named Maureen Stewart. She had an odd, twitchy nature about her. I wanted to get home. I wanted to relax.
“Miss Stewart, can you please tell the court where you were on October 22nd of last year at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon?”
The witness looked down for a moment and then glanced towards the judge before removing the slightly confused look from her face and responding in a semi-automated tone.
“Yes, Miss Anderson. At that time, I was just leaving my day shift at the FedEx Office Store (she pronounced it ‘Staw’ in her thick New York accent) on Broome Street and I was walking towards the station for the Six Train to begin my ride back home.”
The attorney for the defense took a momentary pause and then asked her next question.
“And can you please tell us what happened then?”
The witness looked down again and then looked back at the judge, then the jury and, finally, at me. I didn’t like the way she looked at me.
“Yes, as I was leaving my workplace I crossed the street and I remember walking past the entrance to a narrow alleyway where I heard a commotion taking place. It made me stop and look for a second or two but I didn’t want to get involved so I just kept on walking towards the subway and I didn’t think too much about the whole thing until the Homicide detectives contacted me a few days later after they pulled the security camera videos. I came down to the police station the day after that and gave my statement. That was just over a year ago.”
Miss Anderson took a moment to stare at me. I didn’t like that either. I adjusted my left arm in my lap. It was completely numb.
“Thank you, Miss Stewart. Can you please be a bit more specific about what you saw occurring in that alleyway?”
Again, the witness looked down at the floor and then her eyes shot all around the courtroom before she responded.
“Well,” she said, before taking a brief pause. “At first I thought it was just a little scuffle but when I saw the shorter man in the black jacket punch the tall man in the belly a few times I saw some blood starting to spread on the side of his white button-down shirt and I saw what looked like a small knife or something in the shorter man’s hand. The tall thin man looked like he was starting to fall. I remember looking around for a police officer but I certainly wasn’t gonna do anything about it by myself. I mean, what could I do? When I didn’t see no one who could help I just kept on walking towards the subway. I guess I should have done more but I was scared and I just wanted to get back to Forest Hills to pick up my daughter from daycare before five o’clock.”
I glanced at the defendant seated at the table on the left. He looked both hopeful and nervous at the same time, but in a subtle way, like he didn’t want to appear to be either. He kept his head down and never once glanced towards the jury box. Miss Anderson asked her final question.
“Thank you, Miss Stewart. And do you see the man in the black jacket who stabbed the victim, Mister Baronston, on that day last October here in the courtroom now?”
Again the witness looked down at the floor between her feet for a moment and then looked back up, right at me. I felt my blood stop flowing through my veins, or at least through my left arm and the top of my right leg, when she raised up her hand and pointed her index finger at me.
“It was that man, there,” she said.
Miss Anderson nodded and paused for a moment, satisfied, letting it sink in for the jury members. I was stunned. The stylish defense attorney in the toney, expensive clothing began walking back in my direction and she too pointed an accusatory finger.
“If it pleases the court, let the record show that Miss Stewart has identified Mister Jack Shkreli as the attacker who she witnessed in the-”
Just then the witness on the stand, Miss Stewart, pointed her finger at the judge without really looking at him and suddenly blurted out, “Or him. It might have been him too. I’m not 100% sure...”
Miss Anderson paused, clearly nonplussed, and just stared at her witness. The judge also looked baffled for a second or two and then leaned over and whispered something to his court assistant and the two of them shared a quiet smirk.
Then the witness pointed at one of the jurors, a man in the front row about my size.
“Or him. It could have been him. I’m just not sure...” Then she went silent, as did the rest of the courtroom for a few moments. The State’s Attorney, a heavy-set bald man, broke the silence pretty quickly as he rose to his feet.
“Your Honor, the State would like to move to dismiss this witness along with all previous testimony.” He paused briefly and took a deep breath, choosing his next words.
“While we appreciate Miss Stewart’s willingness to appear at trial today, I think it’s clear that her recollection of events is…uncertain at best.” He glared at the defense table for a moment, then added “I’d just like to remind the court that Mister Shkreli” - and God bless him, he pronounced my two-syllable surname correctly - “is not on trial here and if this witness cannot distinguish the man she saw that day from yourself or a random member of our jury panel I don’t think we can accept this testimony or any further testimony from this witness.”
He hung his head respectfully, with the tiniest little smile on his face. He already knew he had won this argument and the judge quickly agreed, telling the jury to disregard what they just heard. Miss Stewart was dismissed from the stand and the defense had no other witnesses left to call. Less than two hours later the jury returned a guilty verdict against the defendant on all counts and the courtroom was cleared. The sentencing hearing would take place at a later date and I was not required to be there. My right leg was starting to feel numb by then but I still managed to get back to the office in time for Stavvy to head home at the end of his shift to make dinner for his kids. His wife was killed in a car accident two years earlier. He was a hard worker and I really liked him.
That night, back at my apartment, I did some research online and learned about a rare mental disorder known as Prosopagnosia. Here is what Wikipedia had to say.
Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g. object discrimination) and intellectual functioning remain intact.
It all sounded pretty strange to me but if the doctors say it’s real who am I to argue? Apparently it is well documented in the DSM-5. I don’t know if this is the reason why I was able to walk away from the courtroom without consequence at first but I think it is the most likely explanation. I only know that when I left my client’s offices at TRG Commercial Realty on that day just over a year ago and hailed a cab I was stunned and confused when Mister Baronston, a complete stranger with a hostile face, suddenly attacked me, claiming that it was his cab and not mine.
He was bigger than me, tall and thin but strong, and I would have just given up the cab and caught the next one but he was clearly already very angry about something. When he backed me towards the alley, shoving me and then punching me around my head and neck, my backpack tumbled open and I saw my wallet and phone and some other items come crashing out onto the pavement. It was just a stupid and unnecessary altercation, the kind of thing that probably happens on the streets of this city every day, sadly. Too many people, not enough space. I did my best to fight back and protect myself but he was a good deal bigger than me.
Then I was getting punched some more and thrown against the alley wall as people passed by, disinterested, and I just instinctively reached into my jacket pocket and pulled out the pen knife that has been attached to my keychain for years. Before I really knew what was happening it was open and then my right hand was growing warm and red and slick with his blood. Then I was moving again, not looking back.
What an odd thing. I remember seeing Miss Stewart stopping there on the sidewalk to look from the mouth of the alley that day. Of all the passers-by, she was the only one who paused to look at us, at me, right as I desperately punctured Mister Baronston’s rib cage for the fifth or sixth time with my little penknife and he began to drop, but she averted her gaze after a few seconds and moved on and then I was rapidly heading in the opposite direction. This is a huge city and I never expected to see her face again. Fortunately, she was apparently never really able to see mine.
Anyway, I have more important problems to worry about at this time. Stavvy received a letter from the Manhattan DA’s office yesterday ordering him to appear at a grand jury hearing next month related to my involvement in Mister Baronston’s death. He showed it to me. More importantly, my left arm is just about gone now, my right leg is quickly starting to feel the same way and in just the last day or two I have begun feeling that strange tingling sensation in the tips of the fingers on my right hand. I know my liver is failing. It won’t be long now.
I scheduled a meeting with my lawyer in the morning to legally put the business and the rest of my assets in Stavvy’s name in my will. I have no family here anyway and almost no relatives who I remain close with back in Albania or Montenegro anymore. Stavvy is a good man and he has kids to feed and I have already lived a full life.
So yes, I will just leave it all to him and after that’s done I think I will get the old Ford minivan that we sometimes still use for the business and drive it out to the George Washington Bridge while I am still able. I know that when I stop it and get out and leave it there on the center-span I will screw up traffic badly and inconvenience a lot of people but I can’t worry about that. I have to do what I have to do. There’s no point in waiting for this to get worse. I can barely feel the fingers on my right hand and I don’t have much time left.
Maybe I should have told the truth at the trial. I don’t know. I think I was just too distracted by all of my health problems. I didn’t really have any choice at the time. I don’t have any choice now. I’m actually surprised that I lasted this long. I was certain that I would already be gone a few months ago but I feel I have done my best with this life.
As my people back in Albania say, Mos pyet si vdiq, por si rrojti!
“Do not ask how he died, but how he lived!”
THE END

I bought some "Free Ship to store" items on menards.com last month. Under Return Policy of the items, it says "Regular Return (view Return Policy)." But the receipt says "Special Order" (but there's no mention of it anywhere before I purchased them.)
Can I still return them to store?
I'd assume that "Regular Return" means I can return the items to store within 90 days.
But then the receipt says "Special Order," do I have to pay 25% restocking fees?
And menards.com says "You can return an item you purchased online to a Menards® store. However, it is at the individual store's discretion whether or not to accept the return. Please view our Return Policies below for more details."
I'm so confused...

I had $30(3x$10) in dominos gift cards, and since they had a 50% off deal going I placed an order online for 3, 2 topping, medium pan pizzas. Total was about $26
I couldn't figure out how to use more than 2 gift cards online so I selected Pay at Store.
When I got there, the guy had to call someone else to help ring me up since he was new and didn't know how to do gift cards. The other guy messed with the screen then said slide the gift card.
After I slid my first card, before I got my second one ready, a receipt printed and he said looks like you got $1.40 still left on the card, handed me my 3 pizzas, and said have a nice day.
I'm not a good enough person to say "excuse me, you undercharged me" so I left without saying anything else.
I never got a call back from them or anything, and I checked my rewards points and it says +10 points pending. So I'm gonna get those rewards points too?
And what did the guy charge me for? One pizza? Someone else's order? I'm also wondering how he thought $8.60 would be the total for 3 pan pizzas.
Hope it doesn't screw the staff over, but damn I was happy to get such a great deal on food in this economy.

Hello,
Not sure if i'm posting this in the right place. Posted this question on here a couple days ago with no response, so I tried to post on networking but it was removed immediately. Maybe I should have left it here?
I'm looking for opinions on a set up for the following situation with the goal of having a useable signal in an off grid cabin and around the property for wifi calling and browsing (and also on the lake if that possible):
Two square shaped 140' x 140' sites, side by side along the shore of a lake. They are divided by approximately 50 feet of forest. All off grid, and no cell service. One site has a cabin with solar power and Starlink. The other has an unpowered cabin and a camper on site.
Usually less than ten people using the internet, never more than 30.
After some reading online, I ordered 2 TP link 610 outdoor access points, a 65W POE switch TL-SG1005P, oc200 controller, and an er605 router, with the intent of running a 200' ethernet cable from the switch in the powered cabin through the trees to the unpowered lot. One eap610 per stie. At the moment, I can actually pick up the Starlink router from 150 feet away on the unpowered lot, though its spotty.
While waiting for the order to arrive, I read about Ayrstone Ayrmesh. I'm wondering if that would be a better solution, allowing me to have internet access while out on the lake with their "cab hub" on the boat. Most of the lake is line of site from both lots with the farthest shore 1.9 miles away (but even half way across would suffice).
Or should I be doing something completely different? Appreciate your thoughts.

I can’t find the receipt and the store Snipes said without it I can’t even exchange for a correct size or credit. Is this worth calling Amex to see if they can do anything? Hoodie has tags and never been worn. If not I’ll try to sell it online somewhere

• Marriage based , US born citizen spouse
• H-1B beneficiary with no immigration complications
• Moved to the US on F-1 status originally
• Married for about a month at the time of submitting I-130
• Been with partner for over 2.5 years
• Seattle Field Office
• Followed Kseniya International's YouTube channel for filling forms
• Used money order
• Submitted medical with original package
• Did not use a lawyer
• Case receipt block numbers: IOE09253, IOE91924 (I-130)
• No interview

Timeline:

• Mar 9: submitted I-130 online
• Mar 15: 485/131/765 package delivered to lockbox
• Apr 17: received text message with receipt numbers
• Apr 29: biometrics appointment
• May 11: combo card approved for 765/131
• May 29: combo card produced
• Jun 01: combo card delivered
• Jun 03: partner found I-130 approval in portal
• Jun 04: 485 approved
• Jun 07: green card produced

Proofs included for I-130:

• one month joint checking account history
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• health insurance cards showing dependent
• engagement ring receipt
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• electric receipt for current address
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Happy to update the post with more details.
Things I would differently:

• Use UPS/Fedex with signature verification instead of USPS priority mail. Might help with a faster receipt notice. I spent an entire month anxiously waiting for the receipts and thinking about all possible worst case scenarios. After 30 days from delivery, I emailed the lockbox address and mentioned it's been 30 days. I then got the receipts the next day.

First off, I obtained my GC via marriage in 2019. Unfortunately, my ex and I had to separate in 2021 and I had to wait to be eligible using the 5 year rule. We are technically still married and divorce is yet to be filed. I still documented in my papers that I am still married and I explained the details during my interview and paperwork.
N-400 application file: April 23,2024 Receipt of notification of interview schedule (via online account): May 2, 2024 Interview: June 7, 2024
I am still waiting for my schedule for oathtaking ceremony as it will be done via court due to request via name change.
To those still waiting, do not lose hope and good luck on your journey.
I was interviewed in the Fairfax, VA office. Feel free to ask me anything and I will try to help as much as I can.

Better to return through Ryobi or try my luck at Home Depot? Bought everything at Home Depot online so I have receipts and all batteries are still under warranty. 4 batteries in question are no good.

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I just spent about two months in (mostly) rural France and a few weeks in the UK. I think these days some might call it “slow travel.” I loved it and hope to go back again soon.
Most of the time it was off season, almost all of it amidst the French. I heard very little English. And what little I did hear was from Londoners over for a week or so. Culturally, the entire experience was exceptional in its breadth and scope, and the total experience made me question a few fundamental things about my very North American life, habits and predilictions. Most of all, it made me feel somewhat ashamed of how raw, unrefined and base much of the USA is in daily life.
I found myself explaining, back in the States, some of the differences. There are so, so many. Some subtle, some not. Here are just a few, based on my unscientific and highly subjective experiences.
1/ In both UK and France, there is no tipping at restaurants, for cabs, or anything. On occassion people in the major metro areas sometimes greedily ask if you want to leave a tip, knowing that Americans are schooled to do this. They seem to be cynically betting on your ignorance. Don’t do it.
2/ In France (and perhaps Scotland), at restaurants prices quoted have no sudden mystery fees (tips, taxes, etc) so there are no surprises at checkout.
3/ In France, all bottle caps stay attached to plastic bottles. You unscrew the cap and tip it (click) out of the way.
4/ In some supermarkets, shopping carts are chained together at the stores. Plastic baskets are kept inside the stores’ payment perimeters.
5/ In such supermarkets, clerks give out plastic ‘coins’ which unlock the daisy chain of carts. Keeps homeless people from stealing them.
6/ In some supermarkets, in self check areas, after you get your bag of goodies, you are greeted with a turnstile. You scan the barcode on your receipt to open the turnstile to leave the area, keeping shoplifting down.
7/ Metro train systems are extremely well developed. The metro stations in London have a simple tap in/tap out mechanisms… no need to buy a ticket at all. Just use your payment card, and it calculates your fare based on time of day and/or distance travelled.
8/ People generally dress the same as they do in the States except they wear little to no ath-leasure wear, or large grahic t shirts, or things with boastful logos, or ripped jeans. The only ripped jeans we saw in almost a month were muddy, ripped jeans worn by an unfortunate homeless girl near the river.
9/ In both the UK and France, people act and dress more conservatively than they do in the States. It is subtle but constant.
10/ Counter to what you hearead on social media, people do not ‘dress up’… they wear more regular clothing… jeans and other things… more or less just like Americans (with a few exceptions).
11/ Walking in a crowd, it is easy to tell who slavishly adheres to the “dress up” myths that seem to be echo-chamber perpetuated on social media. The ladies whomfollowmthis dress like they are about to star in a fashion shoot (definitely too flashy for the French), and the men just seem unrealistically stylish… no baseball caps, but rather straw hats, pastel pants … and these poor fellows all look like little lap dogs put into costumes… all look uncomfortably self-conscious as they parade around (see above).
12/ Almost all bathrooms are unisex, even those with multiple stalls… While socially progressive, to be honest this is also a bit cringy. When a man is active at the urinal and je can sense that there are women or girls lined up right behind him, and waiting for a stall, it feels like one false move could be criminal. All quite awkward.
13/ There are no billboards, except for official parks and attractions
14/ There are no political yard signs
15/ Trains are as quiet as libraries
16/ Trains almost always run on time
17/ Manners are evident. You say ‘good day’ when you walk into a store. You use ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’
18/ At restaurants, waiters do not bring the bill until asked. To do so would be seen as too presumptive, rude and rushed
19/ At restaurants, if there is a number on your table, to pay you generally go to the cash register, tell him that number, and he totals up your tab right there.
20/ All technology is quite advanced… for payment cards, everything is tap and go. at restaurants the waiter at no time holds or touches your payment card. . 21/ At a restaurant, if a table has no tablecloth, it is designated for drinks only
22/ At a restaurant, if a table has a tablecloth, it is designated for dining, and you will be presumed to order food as well as drink
23/ When entering rural hamlets, there are ver often obstacles placed in the road so that the one lane area — generally just a few car lenghts — becomes a temporary one lane road, making each person slow down for the other. it is a traffic calming device.
24/ In some rural hamlets you need to ‘pump’ water up into the toilet tank for the flush to work. From laborious scientific trial and error, it seems that the optimal is three to five pumps, depending upon the situation.
25/ In rural hamlets, if the building is more than 100 years old, you may find an old arch alcove in the garden outside the kitchen … about the size that could perhaps have held a statue. Usually now gated, if it were a ‘good’ house, this alcove often proves to be where the well had been in previous eras.
Random stuff, but hopefully an entertaining read. Explore and enjoy your own adventures! Maybe this will add to your enjoyment.

I just needed a few questions answered for areas that I'm unclear in. If you're not an OJI and you know the answer to some or all, I would also appreciate your knowledge.
1 - How do I identify the bundle system for my route?
2 - Do you still use the 3575's? We were told that everyone has to go online, or go to the local post office with their IDs.
3 - Do we still use the 3575z? (Employee generated change of address)
4 - What is a "Bundle carrier endorsement"?
5 - What is Anonymous (target) mail, and how do you isolate it?
6 - I have a copy of the PS Form 3821 (clearing receipt) but I've never used it, nor do I know how too. Is this an outdated form?
Thank you

hi all! sorry for the borderline dumb question. hoping to get some guidance on travel/visa guidelines. My friend and I (both with US passports) flew into france at the start of the month. we are planning on traveling in europe for the remainder of the summer. I know there is a 90 day limit on Schengen area visitation. We do not plan to exceed that limit. However, when we travel between Schengen countries, do we need to declare that we have entered that country? We found some information for Italy but also have an upcoming plan to travel to Switzerland, and we couldn’t find info online. We’ve also heard a few people mention that staying over eight days requires different forms. Does anyone have any information or guidance on this subject? Thank you.
here is the italy information we found: “Tourists arriving from a Schengen-country (e.g. France) must request the declaration of presence form from a local police office (commissariato di zona), police headquarters (questura) or their place of stay (e.g. hotel, hostel, campgrounds) and submit the form to the police or to their place of stay within eight business days of arrival. It is important that applicants keep a copy of the receipt issued by the Italian authorities. Failure to complete a declaration of presence is punishable by expulsion from Italy. Additional information may be obtained from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Polizia di Stato.”

hi all! sorry for the borderline dumb question. hoping to get some guidance on travel/visa guidelines. My friend and I (both with US passports) flew into france at the start of the month. we are planning on traveling in europe for the remainder of the summer. I know there is a 90 day limit on Schengen area visitation. We do not plan to exceed that limit. However, when we travel between Schengen countries, do we need to declare that we have entered that country? We found some information for Italy but also have an upcoming plan to travel to Switzerland, and we couldn’t find info online. We’ve also heard a few people mention that staying over eight days requires different forms. Does anyone have any information or guidance on this subject? Thank you.
here is the italy information we found: “Tourists arriving from a Schengen-country (e.g. France) must request the declaration of presence form from a local police office (commissariato di zona), police headquarters (questura) or their place of stay (e.g. hotel, hostel, campgrounds) and submit the form to the police or to their place of stay within eight business days of arrival. It is important that applicants keep a copy of the receipt issued by the Italian authorities. Failure to complete a declaration of presence is punishable by expulsion from Italy. Additional information may be obtained from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Polizia di Stato.”

hi all! sorry for the borderline dumb question. hoping to get some guidance on travel/visa guidelines. My friend and I (both with US passports) flew into france at the start of the month. we are planning on traveling in europe for the remainder of the summer. I know there is a 90 day limit on Schengen area visitation. We do not plan to exceed that limit. However, when we travel between Schengen countries, do we need to declare that we have entered that country? We found some information for Italy but also have an upcoming plan to travel to Switzerland, and we couldn’t find info online. We’ve also heard a few people mention that staying over eight days requires different forms. Does anyone have any information or guidance on this subject? Thank you.
here is the italy information we found: “Tourists arriving from a Schengen-country (e.g. France) must request the declaration of presence form from a local police office (commissariato di zona), police headquarters (questura) or their place of stay (e.g. hotel, hostel, campgrounds) and submit the form to the police or to their place of stay within eight business days of arrival. It is important that applicants keep a copy of the receipt issued by the Italian authorities. Failure to complete a declaration of presence is punishable by expulsion from Italy. Additional information may be obtained from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Polizia di Stato.”

hi all! sorry for the borderline dumb question. hoping to get some guidance on travel/visa guidelines. My friend and I (both with US passports) flew into france at the start of the month. we are planning on traveling in europe for the remainder of the summer. I know there is a 90 day limit on Schengen area visitation. We do not plan to exceed that limit. However, when we travel between Schengen countries, do we need to declare that we have entered that country? We found some information for Italy but also have an upcoming plan to travel to Switzerland, and we couldn’t find info online. We’ve also heard a few people mention that staying over eight days requires different forms. Does anyone have any information or guidance on this subject? Thank you.
here is the italy information we found: “Tourists arriving from a Schengen-country (e.g. France) must request the declaration of presence form from a local police office (commissariato di zona), police headquarters (questura) or their place of stay (e.g. hotel, hostel, campgrounds) and submit the form to the police or to their place of stay within eight business days of arrival. It is important that applicants keep a copy of the receipt issued by the Italian authorities. Failure to complete a declaration of presence is punishable by expulsion from Italy. Additional information may be obtained from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Polizia di Stato.”

hi all! sorry for the borderline dumb question. hoping to get some guidance on travel guidelines. My friend and I (both with US passports) flew into france at the start of the month. we are planning on traveling in europe for the remainder of the summer. I know there is a 90 day limit on Schengen area visitation. We do not plan to exceed that limit. However, when we travel between Schengen countries, do we need to declare that we have entered that country? We found some information for Italy but also have an upcoming plan to travel to Switzerland, and we couldn’t find info online. We’ve also heard a few people mention that staying over eight days requires different forms. Does anyone have any information or guidance on this subject? Thank you.
here is the italy information we found: “Tourists arriving from a Schengen-country (e.g. France) must request the declaration of presence form from a local police office (commissariato di zona), police headquarters (questura) or their place of stay (e.g. hotel, hostel, campgrounds) and submit the form to the police or to their place of stay within eight business days of arrival. It is important that applicants keep a copy of the receipt issued by the Italian authorities. Failure to complete a declaration of presence is punishable by expulsion from Italy. Additional information may be obtained from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Polizia di Stato.”