Travelling to Schengen alone

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Dear All,

I applied for a visit visa to france as family member of EEA citizen. The remarks on visa are Family UE/EEE and it is multiple. My question is if i want to travel to another schengen country alone without my EEA partner, do i need to apply another visa or I can go alone?

[gokulatti]

Lawfully no you cannot use it on your own. It is issued based on the fact that you will be travelling together or you will be joining the EU national in the another member state (France), As in he/she is already in france before you and your are coming in to join at a later stage.

Practically there has been cases where the schengen border officers have not questioned in detail about the circumstances of the travel and have let people entry travelling alone. But there is always a risk of being sent back if you do happen to be questioned and they see that you the EU national is neither travelling together or be joined. So its up to you. But you have to understand that lawfully you are not supposed to travel alone on it.