Schengen Visa offers Short Term Intensity with a Long Run Consistency

Travel with Open eyes warm hearts and free minds; because travel is the only thing one can buy with ease.  Speaking about the free movement of person is a fundamental right guaranteed by the EU to its citizens. It entitles every EU citizen to travel, work and live in any EU country without special formalities. 

The Schengen cooperation enhances this freedom by enabling citizens to cross internal borders without being subjected to border checks. The border-free Schengen Area guarantees free movement to more than 400 million EU citizens, as well as to many non-EU nationals, businessmen, tourists or other persons legally present on the EU territory.

Any person, irrespective of nationality, may cross the internal borders without being subjected to border checks.

Schengen Area, named after “the Schengen Agreement” signifies a zone where 26 different European nations, acknowledged the abolishment of their internal borders with other member nations and outside, for the free and unrestricted movement of people, goods, services, and capital, in harmony with common rules for controlling external borders and fighting criminality by strengthening common judicial system and other security cooperation.

The Essential Features of the Schengen

•  Nationals of any world country, when in the Schengen Area, to liberally cross the internal borders of the Schengen countries, free from border checks

• Shared standards for crossing the external borders

•  Harmonized entry and short-stay visa conditions

• Improved collaboration between the police of member countries

• The police can require information from people at internal borders about the stay in Schengen Area and additional associated questions

•  If lacking to have a complete internal security due to a serious threat, a Schengen country can temporarily reintroduce border checks at its internal borders, but for not more than 30 days.

Schengen Visa Requirements & Documents for Eligibility

• A passport with at least two empty pages. The passport should have been issued within the last 10 years.  The passport must be valid for at least 3 months beyond the date on which you intend to leave the Schengen territory, or, in the case of multiple journeys, the date on which you intend to leave after the last stay.

•  A visa application completed and signed.

• Any person appearing in your travel document must complete a separate application form. The visa application form for a child under 18 must be signed by a parent or guardian.

•  A recent identity photograph 6 months old ought to be used.

• In the countries where the Visa Information System is operational the fingerprints will be collected when the application will be submitted.

• A visa fee to be paid when you submit your application

• A service fee to be paid if you are requested to submit your application at the offices of a service provider.

• A travel medical insurance covering emergency medical, hospitalization and repatriation (including in case of death). The minimum cover should be of 30,000 EUR. This insurance must be valid for the entire Schengen area and throughout the duration of the stay.

• Various documents relating to the purpose of your stay, evidence of means of support during your stay and your accommodation including financial support during the course of stay will be questioned.

• During the processing time the consulate may, in individual cases, ask you to submit additional information or documents or you may be contacted for an interview.

How long can anyone stay in the Schengen area on the basis of a visa?

• The Schengen Visa is a short stay visa and takes the form of a sticker affixed to the travel document. The definition of “short stay” is a stay of "90 days in any 180 days period".

• This means that the total duration of stay is of maximum 90 days, in any period of 180 days. The precise length of validity of your visa is indicated on the visa sticker under the heading “Duration of visit”.

•  With a Schengen Single-Entry Visa you can enter the Schengen area only once. This is indicated on the visa sticker under the heading "Number of entries" by "1".

• A two-entry or a Schengen Multiple-Entry Visa allows for two or several entries during the validity of the visa. This is indicated on the visa sticker by "02" or "MULT" under the heading "Number of entries

How long does the visa procedure take? 

As a general rule, once a Schengen Visa Application is submitted to the Consulate, a decision is taken by the Consulate within 15 calendar days. This period may be extended up to 30 days or 60 days.

How much does it cost to apply for a visa? 

·         The general visa fee of EUR 60 must be paid when you submit the visa application.

·         The visa fee for children from the age of six years and below the age of 12 years is EUR 35.

·         Nationals of countries with which the EU has concluded Visa Facilitation Agreements shall pay a fee of EUR 35.

Can the Schengen Visa Services be extended?

• As a rule, the visa can only be extended if you have stayed less than 90 days the Schengen area, in the course of the past 180 days, and if your current visa is not expired.

• When applying for a visa extension, you must show that due to force majeure or for humanitarian reasons or for serious personal reasons it is not possible for you to leave the territory of Member States before the expiry of your visa or the authorized period of stay.

 If the visa has been refused

• The good news is you may appeal against this decision.

• The decision to refuse a Schengen visa and the reasons for the refusal are notified using a standard form that is handed out by the Member State's consulate that refused the visa.

• The notification of the refusal must include the reasons, on which the refusal were based, and the procedures and deadlines for submitting an appeal.

• However, it is recommended that you take note of the reasons for the earlier refusal before submitting a new application and make amendments, where necessary. The visa fee is not refunded if the visa is refused. The visa fee covers the cost of the examination of the visa application.

The seemingly endless queues at border crossings, immigration officials studying your documents, the restrictions to movement within Europe. These are all things which, for many Europeans, belong to either a distant memory of a pre-Schengen Europe, or travel to far off places. The crises faced by certain countries are provoking the people to migrate from pillar to post to have a better and safer standard of living.

The challenge now is to move forward from the status quo, to recreate the behaviors needed to make Schengen function as usual again. Schengen has to be made proactive, the rest lies squarely on the members of the state and the citizens.

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