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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
20 yrs. ago I blew off a visa renewal when I was living there because I wasn't planning to work anymore before I went back to the US. But then I decided to go back to work during spring break at the Bayer factory, for which I really needed a new visa. When I went to the police station, they chewed me out for letting my visa lapse (I had been there about a year). The Beamte asked me when I planned to leave. I said Aug. 14th. So he made my new visa expire July 31 just to be a dick and make me have to come back, which, of course, I did not. I've been back 10x since then and never been hassled.
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You had to leave to come back, ergo you were no longer in violation of your visa.
The ticket does not go away until you pay it.
Just send them a check for the initial amount regular mail with an explanation, "I would have paid immediately but it's been x # of weeks/months and I just received your letter now"
20 Euros hardly seems worth the potential hassle.