I’m currently in Berlin, Germany, with a C category visa (personal invitation). According to my profession I had several meetings with competent people, as a result I will be involved in shootings of the movie, which is very important for my career, but it starts after my visa expires (90 days, 6 months) I will have used 90 days. Please kindly guide me if there is any chance to prolong visa if I provide all kind of required documents.
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I guess your visa is for working and I've flagged to move it to expats SE. Your question is also not completely clear to me. – mts Mar 08 '16 at 21:32
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There are government agencies which promote the movie industry, arrange location shots, and so on. While they are not directly involved in visa issues, if they are supporting the movie they might have helpful advice. – o.m. Mar 09 '16 at 06:25
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You cannot easily extend a type C Schengen visa (you can find previous questions about that for details). You have at least two option:
Leave right now (or at least well before the end of your 90 days) and return when you need to be here. The clock stops, as it were, and if you have a multiple entry visa and it's still valid, you can use those 90 days any way you like, not necessarily at once starting from your first entry.
One issue however is that it's not clear that shooting a movie would be allowed for you. Working is in fact allowed under a Schengen visa but you also need to secure a separate authorisation for that.
Apply for a German (long-stay) work visa. It's complicated and I am not sure it would be possible to get one in your situation but if you do get one, you kill two birds with one stone: the 90 days are not relevant anymore and you don't need to have any concerns about shooting a movie. You would have to leave Germany first and apply for it from your place of usual residence.
(In some very specific circumstances, it is also possible to apply for a residence permit directly from within Germany – instead of a long-stay visa – but I don't think this would be possible in this case.)
