How to apply for a European Schengen visa, and what is the process?

Schengen individual tourist visa application steps:

1. Prepare a valid passport.

To apply for a short-term visa, the passport must be valid for more than 3 months beyond the expected date of departure from Schengen.

To renew a multiple-entry visa of 1 to 5 years, the validity period must exceed 15 months after your visa application date.

To apply for a long-term visa for more than 3 months, the validity period must be more than 15 months after the expected departure date.

2. Select the country of application

Passengers who plan to travel to one or more Schengen countries should first consider which country's foreign representative office visa to apply for.

Travelers to Schengen countries must apply for visas at their foreign representative offices.

Travelers who plan to travel to several Schengen countries must apply for visas to foreign representative offices in the main countries of stay (the main countries of travel destinations).

When there is no obvious main country of residence, apply for a visa to the foreign representative office of the first country entering Schengen District.

3. List of Schengen visa materials (for tourism purposes, staying in Schengen area for no more than 90 days)

(1) passport

(2) Photos (4 recent color photos with a white background within 3 months, with a photo size of 35 × 45 mm; Please write your name in pencil on the back of the photo)

(3) ID card (ID card is copied on both sides of a piece of A4 paper)

(4) Hukou Book (all members of Hukou Book are copied on A4 paper, regardless of immediate family members)

(5) Proof of economic status

The applicant should provide the original bank debit card statement issued by the bank for the last 3-6 months, requiring a certain balance;

Applicants need to provide a current passbook with multiple transaction records in the last 3-6 months, and require a certain balance, such as a copy of the passbook of salary;

Original deposit certificate of more than 50,000 yuan 1 copy, real estate license, vehicle driving license, stock delivery note and other documents that can prove personal property)

(6) Business license or organization code certificate (enterprises/institutions, please provide a clear copy of the organization code certificate, copy it on A4 paper, with annual inspection records, and affix the official seal of the unit on the copy).

(7) Work certificate (on-the-job personnel-printed on the company's regular stationery and stamped with the company's red seal;

On-the-job certificate shall include: company name, position and income, travel time, applied home address, position of person in charge, signature, telephone number and fax number, and shall indicate that the guarantee applicant will return to China on schedule; Retirees-provide original and photocopy of retirement certificate)

(8) air ticket booking (round-trip air ticket booking)

(9) Hotel orders and itinerary (hotel reservation certificate, transportation and itinerary during the stay in Schengen countries)

(10) Insurance (valid medical insurance certificate for staying in all Schengen countries, one original and one copy)

(1 1) Other supplementary materials (if the husband and wife go together, a copy of the marriage certificate must be provided; If it is lost, please provide a description of the loss of the marriage certificate;

If the visa is refused by any country, please provide a visa refusal statement, which can be a letter from the embassy or a statement written by the applicant himself, both in Chinese and English;

The embassy has the right to take the applicant to the embassy for an interview when accepting the visa, or ask the applicant to go to the embassy for an interview after returning)

4. Appointment and interview

Appointment: (Take Germany as an example) Deqian follows the instructions on the appointment page of the embassy website step by step, and there will be a specific date and time period to choose from (google it when there are German words that you can't understand).

After booking, you will receive a confirmation email, print it out and take it with you. In the process of preparing information, you should consider making an appointment.

Face-to-face signing: bring all kinds of certificates and originals.

Visa officers basically don't look at the house book, temporary residence permit and household registration book, but take the original tax bill, insurance policy, bank statement, social security copy and passport.

Extended data:

Schengen visa applicable country:

By 20 1 1, 26 countries have formally implemented the Schengen agreement: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain,

Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Liechtenstein, Malta and Switzerland.

In addition, the following countries can enter the country at will with a Schengen visa because they have no actual border inspection with their Schengen neighbors: Andorra, Vatican, San Marino and Monaco.

Schengen visa fee:

Generally, you need to pay a visa fee of 60 euros to the embassy or consulate to apply for a visa (refer to the euro exchange rate >; & gt& gt), the amount is slightly different according to the visa application and exchange rate of each country.

Visa service fee: this fee must be provided unless it can be exempted.

Visa service fee 180 yuan, which is jointly formulated with the embassy or consulate, includes information consultation, reservation, material review, application form entry and other services provided by the visa acceptance center during the visa application process.

References:

Official website of German Federal Embassy in China-Visa regulations

Baidu encyclopedia-Schengen visa