Requirements verified 8 September 2026. Schengen visa rules, fees and processing times are set by the individual consulates and the European Commission, and they change. Confirm before you apply.
Schengen visa requirements for Indians at a glance
An Indian applicant needs six things for a Schengen visa: a passport valid at least three months beyond the return date, a completed application form, a confirmed return itinerary with accommodation for every night, travel insurance with at least €30,000 of medical and repatriation cover, six months of financial proof, and evidence of ties to India. Standard processing is 15 calendar days, but from India you should allow six to eight weeks end to end.
| Requirement | The specification |
|---|---|
| Passport | Valid 3+ months beyond your return date, with at least 2 blank pages |
| Application form | The form for the consulate you are applying to, signed by you, every field answered |
| Itinerary | Confirmed return flights and accommodation covering every night of the trip |
| Travel insurance | Minimum €30,000 medical and repatriation, valid in all Schengen states, full trip duration |
| Financial proof | 6 months of stamped bank statements; average balance around 1.5× the total trip cost |
| Ties to India | Employment, business, property or family evidence that you will return |
| Photographs | Two, 35 × 45 mm, white background, matte, ICAO standard, taken within 3 months |
| Where to apply | The consulate of the country where you spend the most nights; if tied, your first point of entry |
| Processing time | 15 calendar days standard · 8–12 working days off-peak · 30–45 in peak season |
| Maximum stay | 90 days in any rolling 180-day period |
Most Schengen refusals are not close calls. They are applications that were missing something the consulate expected, submitted by someone who did not know it was expected. The rules are published, but they are spread across twenty-nine consulates, a visa centre, and an application form that asks for things it does not explain.
This page is the version we wish every client had read first: what the requirements actually are, what documents go in the file, how the six steps run from consultation to passport collection, and the specific things that get Indian applications refused.
We run this every week. Anusha, who handles our Schengen desk, files these applications for clients in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai — and roughly 20 to 30 percent of our Schengen work is reapplications, people who applied on their own, were refused, and came to us to fix it. That is the best argument there is for reading the document section properly. If you would rather hand the whole thing over, our Schengen visa assistance desk handles the file end to end.
And if you only want help with the visa, that is a service on its own. A lot of people reading this are planning the trip themselves and want the Schengen file handled and nothing else. That is fine, it is not a foot in the door, and there is more on it further down.
One thing this page deliberately does not do is quote prices. Fees change, the euro rate moves, and a stale number is worse than none — so costs live on the Schengen visa cost calculator, which is kept current.
What are the requirements for a Schengen visa from India?
An Indian applicant needs six things: a passport valid at least three months beyond the return date with two blank pages, a completed application form, a confirmed round-trip itinerary and accommodation for every night, travel insurance with at least €30,000 of medical and repatriation cover, financial proof showing you can fund the trip, and evidence of ties to India strong enough that you will come back.
Everything else — the cover letter, the NOC from your employer, the ITRs — exists to support one of those six. If you can satisfy all six clearly, the application is straightforward. If any one of them is weak, that is where the refusal comes from, and adding more paper to the other five does not compensate.
Two requirements do more work than the rest, and they are the two people underestimate.
Financial capacity is judged against your trip, not against a fixed number. There is no published minimum balance. What consulates look for is an average balance over the last six months that comfortably covers the trip you have described — as a working rule we use at least 1.5 times the total trip cost, held steadily rather than deposited last week. A large credit that lands three days before you submit reads as borrowed money, and it is treated that way.
Ties to India is the requirement with no document. Nothing in the checklist is called “ties”. It is assembled from your employment letter, your leave approval, your property or business papers, your family situation, and how your itinerary reads. A salaried applicant with five years at one employer, approved leave and a return flight has strong ties. A recently resigned applicant with a one-way-feeling itinerary and no fixed commitments has weak ties, whatever their bank balance says.
Applications from single applicants aged roughly 22 to 30, travelling alone, without a settled employment history get the closest scrutiny on this point. That is not a rule anyone publishes; it is a pattern we see, and if it describes you the answer is to over-evidence the ties section rather than hope it passes.
If that describes you, it is worth a conversation before you spend anything on insurance or photographs. Send Anusha your situation on WhatsApp and she will tell you honestly whether the ties section needs more work. It is a five-minute answer and it costs nothing.
What documents do you need for a Schengen visa?
The file breaks into eight groups. Assemble it in this order — the later groups are easier to get right once the earlier ones are settled.
A. Identity and travel documents
- Original passport, valid at least three months beyond your intended return, with at least two blank pages
- All previous passports, if the current one was issued recently
- Two colour photographs, 35 × 45 mm, white background, matte finish, taken within the last three months, meeting ICAO standards
- A copy of the passport bio page
Photographs fail more often than anything else in this group. Studio prints sized for Indian passport applications are the wrong dimensions, and a glossy finish is rejected at the counter.
B. The application form
- The completed form for the consulate you are applying to, signed and dated
- Every field answered. “N/A” where something does not apply — never blank
Sign it yourself. A form signed by an agent on your behalf is a problem, and we do not do it.
C. Travel itinerary and bookings
- Confirmed return flights, or a verified itinerary from a travel agent
- Hotel reservations covering every single night of the trip
- A day-by-day itinerary matching the flights and hotels
- Internal travel bookings — trains, intercity buses — if you are moving between countries
The three documents in this group must agree with each other. A gap of two nights, a hotel in a city your itinerary does not mention, a return flight from a country you have not booked accommodation in — each of those is an inconsistency, and inconsistency is a stated refusal ground.
D. Financial documents — where most refusals originate
- Six months of bank statements, on bank letterhead, signed and stamped
- Three years of Income Tax Returns
- Three months of salary slips, or GST returns and business registration if self-employed
- A sponsorship letter plus the sponsor’s financials, if someone else is funding the trip
Statements printed from net banking without a stamp are routinely sent back. Get them at the branch.
If your balance has moved a lot in the last six months — a property sale, a bonus, money sent by family — that is not automatically a problem, but it does need explaining inside the file rather than left for the officer to guess at. Send us the six-month statement before you book anything and we will tell you what needs a covering note.
E. Employment and business documents — your ties to India
- NOC from your employer, stating your position, salary and approved leave dates
- Employment contract or appointment letter
- Retired applicants: pension statement and retirement proof
- Students: bonafide certificate from the institution, plus the sponsor’s documents
- Homemakers: spouse’s employment and financial documents, plus the marriage certificate
- Business owners: registration, GST filings, and company bank statements
The leave dates on the NOC must match the itinerary. A letter approving leave that ends before your return flight is a contradiction inside your own file.
F. Travel insurance
- Minimum €30,000 medical and repatriation cover
- Valid across all Schengen states, for the entire duration including arrival and departure days
Buy it after your dates are fixed. Insurance covering the wrong dates is the same failure as a hotel booking covering the wrong nights.
G. The cover letter
One page, in your words: who you are, what you do, why you are travelling, where you are going, who is paying, and when you are coming back.
It is the only document where you explain the file rather than evidence it. It also has to be consistent with everything else — a cover letter that mentions visiting a cousin, when the file contains no invitation letter, creates a question that was not there before.
Most people find this the hardest page in the file, because it is the only one with no template to copy. If you would like a hand with it, Madhuri on our visa desk writes these with clients most weeks — tell her what the trip is for and she will shape it around the rest of your documents.
H. Purpose-specific additions
- Business: invitation from the host company, and a letter from your employer confirming the purpose
- Visiting family or friends: a formal invitation, the host’s ID or residence permit, and proof of their address
- Minors travelling without both parents: birth certificate, and notarised consent from the non-travelling parent(s)
What documents do you need, by applicant type?
The identity, itinerary and insurance documents are the same for everyone. What changes with your employment status is how you prove ties to India and how you prove funds — and that is where the great majority of Indian refusals are decided.
| Applicant type | How you prove ties to India | How you prove funds |
|---|---|---|
| Salaried employee | NOC from your employer stating position, salary and approved leave dates · employment contract or appointment letter | 6 months of stamped bank statements · 3 years of ITR · 3 months of salary slips |
| Self-employed / business owner | Business registration · GST filings · company letterhead confirming your role | 6 months of personal and company statements · 3 years of ITR · GST returns |
| Student | Bonafide certificate from the institution · proof of enrolment for the coming term | Sponsor’s 6-month statements and ITR · a signed sponsorship letter · proof of relationship |
| Retired | Retirement proof · pension order · property documents if held | 6 months of statements showing pension credits · ITR if filed · investment proof |
| Homemaker | Marriage certificate · spouse’s employment letter and approved leave if travelling together | Spouse’s statements and ITR · a signed sponsorship letter |
| Minor travelling without both parents | Birth certificate · notarised consent from the non-travelling parent or parents | Parent’s or sponsor’s statements and ITR · sponsorship letter |
Two rules cut across every row. The leave dates on your NOC must match your itinerary — a letter approving leave that ends before your return flight is a contradiction inside your own file. And a large deposit shortly before you apply weakens the file rather than strengthening it; consulates look for a balance held steadily across the six months, not a figure that arrived last week.
How do you apply for a Schengen visa from India, step by step?
Six steps, and the order matters. Most of the work happens in steps one and two; by the time you are at the visa centre, the outcome is largely decided.
Step 1 — Consultation and eligibility check
Establish two things before anything else: which country you apply to, and whether your profile is ready to apply at all.
The country is not a choice. You apply to the consulate of your main destination — where you are spending the most nights. If nights are evenly split, you apply to your first point of entry. Applying to the wrong consulate is a refusal on jurisdiction alone, and it happens most often on multi-country trips that were planned around the easiest appointment slot rather than the itinerary.
If you are doing this yourself: map your nights per country before you book anything. The consulate follows from the itinerary, not the other way round.
Multi-country trips are where this goes wrong most often, and it is the easiest thing in the world to check before it costs you anything. Send us your night-by-night plan before you book the flights and we will tell you which consulate has to receive the application.
Step 2 — Document preparation, where about 80% of refusals are decided
This is the step that decides the outcome. Work through groups A to H above, then check the file against itself: do the flights, hotels, itinerary, insurance dates and leave approval all describe the same trip?
If you are doing this yourself: build the file, then leave it for a day and read it as a stranger would. Most inconsistencies are visible on a second pass and invisible on the first.
Step 3 — Appointment booking at VFS Global
Appointments open around 90 days before travel, and in peak season the slots for a popular consulate can be gone within hours of release.
In Hyderabad, VFS operates from Hi-Tech City (Phoenix Towers, near Cyber Towers), with a second centre in the Begumpet / Panjagutta area. Applications submitted here are processed by the consulates in Mumbai, Delhi or Bengaluru depending on the country — which is why processing time varies between two people who applied at the same counter on the same morning.
If you are doing this yourself: book the slot the day it opens, before the file is finished. The appointment is the scarce resource; documents can be completed after.
If your travel dates fall in April to June or September to October, message us before you book the flights. In those months it is the appointment slot, not the visa decision, that decides whether the trip happens.
Step 4 — Biometrics and document submission
At the centre: a 10-finger scan and a digital photograph, then handover of the file. Expect to be there 30 to 60 minutes.
Biometrics are reused for a period across subsequent applications, so a repeat applicant may not need them again.
If you are doing this yourself: carry the originals of everything you have submitted a copy of. Requests at the counter are common and there is no second chance that morning.
Step 5 — Processing
The standard figure is 15 calendar days, and it is genuinely a floor rather than an average. See the timeline section below for what to actually plan around.
If you are doing this yourself: do not book non-refundable onward travel against the 15-day figure.
Step 6 — Passport collection and the decision
Collect in person or by courier. If the visa is granted, check the sticker before you leave: the validity dates, the number of entries, and the duration of stay. Errors happen and are far easier to correct immediately.
If it is refused, you will receive a refusal letter with a stated ground. That letter is the starting point of any reapplication — it tells you exactly which of the six requirements the consulate did not accept, and reapplying without addressing it produces the same result.
If you have been refused and you are not sure which ground applies to you, send us the refusal letter. We read these every week, and we will tell you whether it is fixable before you pay anybody anything. Across the cases we do take on after a refusal, roughly 95 percent are approved on the reapplication — and the difference is almost never new evidence. It is the same trip, evidenced properly.
How long does a Schengen visa take from India?
Plan on six to eight weeks between deciding to go and having the passport back. The consulate’s own figure of 15 calendar days is the processing window only, it starts when the file reaches the consulate rather than when you book, and in peak season it is routinely exceeded.
What actually determines the wait is the season and the country.
What follows is what we actually plan around, rather than the published figure alone.
| When you apply | Realistic processing time |
|---|---|
| Off-peak — November to February | 8–12 working days |
| Standard, any month | 15 calendar days |
| Peak — April to June, September to October | 30–45 working days |
| Consulate | Typical processing |
|---|---|
| France, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Austria | around 15 working days |
| Greece, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian consulates | 15–45 days |
| Application window | Timing |
|---|---|
| Earliest you may apply | 6 months before travel |
| Recommended | 6–8 weeks before travel |
| Practical minimum | 3 weeks |
| Last viable point | 2 weeks |
One consequence worth stating plainly: in peak season, a trip booked eight weeks out with non-refundable flights is a trip you may not take. Either apply earlier or keep the bookings changeable.
Which countries does a Schengen visa cover, and which consulate do you apply to?
One Schengen visa lets you travel across the whole Schengen area on a single sticker, for up to 90 days in any rolling 180-day period. But you do not choose which country issues it — the rule chooses for you.
Apply to the country where you will spend the most nights. If your nights are split evenly between two or more countries, apply to your first point of entry — the country you land in.
This is where multi-country Europe trips go wrong. A traveller doing Paris, Zurich and Rome books whichever appointment slot is available first, applies there, and is refused on jurisdiction without the file ever being assessed on merit. Work out the nights before you book anything.
Two clarifications that come up constantly:
The Schengen area and the European Union are not the same list. Some EU countries are outside Schengen, and some non-EU countries — Switzerland, Norway, Iceland — are inside it. A Schengen visa does not cover the United Kingdom or Ireland, which have their own visas. Check the current membership list before planning a route, because it has changed more than once in recent years.
ETIAS is not for you. It comes up in searches constantly and it does not apply to Indian passport holders. ETIAS is a travel authorisation for nationalities that can enter the Schengen area without a visa. Indians need a visa, so you go through the visa process described on this page — ETIAS is not an alternative to it, a replacement for it, or a shortcut around it.
What is the Entry/Exit System (EES), and how does it change your application?
EES does not change what you submit. It changes what happens at the border, and it makes the 90-in-180 rule impossible to lose track of.
Under EES, the passport stamp is replaced by a digital record. On entry and exit you give a fingerprint and a facial scan, and the system records the date, the place and the direction of every crossing automatically.
The practical consequences for an Indian traveller are three:
- Your days are counted for you, exactly. Under stamps, an overstay of a few days often passed unnoticed if a stamp was faint or missed. It will not now. If you have used 90 days across the last 180, the system knows before the officer asks.
- Your first crossing after rollout will take longer. Enrolment happens at the border on first entry, so allow extra time for a tight connection.
- Your travel history becomes part of your next application. A clean record of entries and exits within the limit is now a positive on a reapplication, in a way a passport full of stamps never quite was.
If you have travelled in the Schengen area before, count your days honestly before you apply. An unexplained previous overstay is a refusal ground, and it is one of the few that no amount of financial evidence offsets.
What actually changed for Indian applicants in 2026?
Less than the headlines suggest. Two things are real and one is not yet.
Real: the EES rollout, described above, replacing stamps with a biometric record at the border.
Real: the India–EU visa facilitation discussions. A framework aimed at easier, longer-validity visas for Indian travellers has been under discussion, and separately the cascade rules — which give repeat travellers with clean histories longer multi-entry visas — are being applied more consistently. If you have a clean Schengen history, ask for multi-entry rather than accepting a single-entry by default.
Not yet: the centralised EU digital visa portal. This one is widely reported as though it has already happened. It has not. A phased rollout of an online EU visa application platform has been described, but it is not live for Indian applicants and no confirmed date applies. You still apply through the consulate’s process and attend a visa centre in person for biometrics. Anyone telling you the whole process is now online is describing a future state, not the current one.
Two misconceptions worth killing while we are here. A Schengen visa is not easier to obtain from a country with a “higher approval rate” — you must apply to the correct consulate regardless. And a previous refusal does not bar you from reapplying; it obliges you to address the stated ground.
Why are Schengen visas refused for Indian applicants?
Refusals cluster into a small number of grounds, and most of them are decided in the document file rather than at the counter.
- Insufficient or unexplained finances — balance too low for the trip described, or a large deposit shortly before applying with no explanation of where it came from
- Weak ties to India — no settled employment, no approved leave, nothing that clearly brings you back
- Inconsistent itinerary — flights, hotels, insurance dates and leave dates that do not describe the same trip
- Wrong consulate — applying somewhere other than your main destination or first entry
- Inadequate travel insurance — below €30,000, not covering all Schengen states, or not covering the full duration
- Accommodation not covered for every night — gaps in the hotel bookings
- Photographs failing ICAO standards — wrong size, glossy finish, or too old
- A previous immigration record — an earlier overstay, refusal or deportation not disclosed and explained
- A cover letter that contradicts the file — mentioning a purpose or a host the documents do not support
- Documents that cannot be verified — anything altered, or issued by a source the consulate cannot confirm. This is the one refusal with lasting consequences
If you have been refused, the refusal letter names the ground. Reapplying without addressing that specific ground produces the same outcome — which is why a large share of the reapplications we take on are the same trip, evidenced properly, rather than a different trip.
Do you have to book your trip through us to get visa help?
No. Visa-only is a service we sell on its own, and taking it does not commit you to anything else.
We know why people ask. The usual experience is that a visa enquiry turns into a package pitch, and the visa quietly becomes the thing you have to buy a holiday to get. Plenty of travellers would rather plan their own route, pick their own hotels and book their own flights — and just want the one part that is genuinely hard to get right handled properly. We would rather do that piece well than talk you into the rest.
| What you want | What we do |
|---|---|
| Just the Schengen visa | You have planned the trip. We prepare the file, book the VFS appointment, check the documents and see the application through. |
| The visa, plus the parts you would rather not do | Usually flights, sometimes the insurance. Take one, take both, take neither. |
| The whole trip | Visa, flights, hotels, the route and the day-to-day plan — one team and one person to call. |
The visa work is identical in all three, and asking for the first one will not get you a lesser service than asking for the third. If you are DIY-planning and only want the file handled, say so in your first message and nobody will pitch you a package.
How much does a Schengen visa cost from India?
The total is the visa fee plus the VFS service charge plus travel insurance, and the rupee figure moves with the euro rate, so any number written into an article is out of date within weeks.
Current figures, broken down per adult and per child, are kept on our Schengen visa cost calculator.
Do you need a multi-entry Schengen visa?
If you travel to Europe more than once every couple of years, ask for multi-entry rather than accepting the single-entry visa most first applications default to.
Under the cascade rules, a clean history of previous Schengen visas used correctly can earn progressively longer multi-entry validity — one year, then two, then five — without reapplying from scratch each time. The qualifying conditions and the order they apply in are worth understanding before your next application, because the visa you are granted this time determines what you can ask for next time.
We have set that out in full in our guide to the multi-entry Schengen visa for Indian travellers.
The terms on a Schengen application, in plain English
| Term | What it means for your application |
|---|---|
| NOC | No Objection Certificate — your employer’s letter confirming your position, salary and that your leave for these exact dates is approved |
| ITR | Income Tax Return. Three years is the usual expectation; it evidences both income and that you are established in India |
| ICAO photo standard | The international specification your photographs must meet — 35 × 45 mm, white background, matte finish, taken within three months. Indian passport-sized prints are the wrong dimensions |
| VFS Global | The outsourced visa centre where you submit and give biometrics. It does not decide your application — the consulate does |
| Biometrics | A 10-finger scan and a digital photograph, taken once and reused across subsequent applications for a period |
| EES | Entry/Exit System — the biometric border record replacing passport stamps, which counts your 90-in-180 days automatically |
| ETIAS | A travel authorisation for visa-exempt nationalities. It does not apply to Indian passport holders and is not an alternative to a visa |
| 90/180 rule | You may spend up to 90 days inside the Schengen area in any rolling 180-day period, counted across all member states together |
| Cascade rule | The principle by which a clean history of used-correctly Schengen visas earns progressively longer multi-entry validity — one year, then two, then five |
| Main destination | The country where you spend the most nights. It decides which consulate must receive your application — applying elsewhere is refused on jurisdiction alone |
And if you get stuck anywhere in this — a document you cannot get hold of, a date that will not work, a form field that makes no sense — message us and ask. You do not have to be a client, you do not have to be buying anything, and we would far rather answer a question now than read a refusal letter in six weeks.
Common Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Schengen visa checklist for Indians?
The Schengen visa checklist for Indian applicants has eight groups: identity and travel documents, the application form, itinerary and bookings, financial proof, employment or business documents, travel insurance, a cover letter, and any purpose-specific extras. Every group is set out in full above, and the complete checklist with sample document formats is available as a free PDF download.
How long is a Schengen visa valid for?
A short-stay Schengen visa allows up to 90 days of travel in any rolling 180-day period. The sticker in your passport states three separate things — the validity dates, the number of entries permitted, and the maximum duration of stay. Read all three before you travel; they are not the same number.
Which country should I apply to for a Schengen visa?
Apply to the consulate of the country where you will spend the most nights. If your nights are split evenly between two or more countries, apply to your first point of entry. Applying anywhere else is a refusal on jurisdiction, regardless of how strong the rest of the file is.
Can I apply for a Schengen visa from Hyderabad?
Yes. VFS Global operates centres in Hyderabad at Hi-Tech City and in the Begumpet area. Your application is submitted there and then processed by the relevant consulate in Mumbai, Delhi or Bengaluru depending on the country, which is why processing times differ between applicants who submitted at the same counter.
How early should I apply for a Schengen visa?
The earliest you may apply is six months before travel. We recommend six to eight weeks out. Three weeks is the practical minimum, and two weeks is the last point at which applying is worth attempting.
Do I need confirmed flight tickets to apply?
You need a confirmed round-trip itinerary. A verified itinerary issued by a travel agent is accepted in place of purchased tickets by most consulates, which is the safer route — buying non-refundable tickets before approval puts real money on an application that has not been decided.
What is the minimum bank balance for a Schengen visa?
There is no published minimum. Consulates assess whether your funds cover the trip you have described. As a working rule we look for an average balance across six months of at least 1.5 times the total trip cost, held steadily. A large deposit shortly before applying weakens the file rather than strengthening it.
How many years of ITR do I need to submit?
Three years of Income Tax Returns is the usual expectation for salaried and self-employed applicants. If you have fewer than three years of filings, submit what you have and explain the gap in the cover letter rather than leaving it unaddressed.
Do I need travel insurance before applying?
Yes. Cover of at least EUR 30,000 for medical treatment and repatriation, valid in all Schengen states, for the entire duration of your trip including arrival and departure days. Buy it after your dates are fixed so the policy period matches the itinerary exactly.
Can I apply again after a Schengen visa refusal?
Yes, and there is no waiting period. The refusal letter names the ground on which you were refused, and that ground is what a reapplication has to answer. Reapplying with the same file produces the same outcome.
Does a previous refusal affect future applications?
It is recorded, and it should be disclosed. A disclosed refusal that was properly addressed is far less damaging than one the consulate discovers you omitted. An undisclosed previous refusal, overstay or deportation is itself a refusal ground.
Is there an interview for a Schengen visa?
Not as a routine step. Most applications are decided on the documents. Some consulates may call an applicant in for a short interview if something in the file needs clarifying, so keep your phone reachable during the processing window.
Do children need their own Schengen visa?
Yes. Every traveller needs their own application and their own document file, including infants. A minor travelling without both parents also needs a birth certificate and notarised consent from the non-travelling parent or parents.
Can a travel agent apply on my behalf?
An agent can prepare and submit the file, and that is most of the work. The application form itself must be signed by you. We do not sign forms on a client’s behalf, and you should be cautious of anyone who offers to.
Do Indians need ETIAS for Europe?
No. ETIAS is a travel authorisation for nationalities that may enter the Schengen area without a visa. Indian passport holders require a visa, so you go through the full visa application process. ETIAS is not a shortcut, a replacement, or an alternative route.
Does a Schengen visa cover the UK or Ireland?
No. The United Kingdom and Ireland are outside the Schengen area and issue their own visas. Equally, some non-EU countries such as Switzerland, Norway and Iceland are inside Schengen, so the Schengen list and the EU list are not the same list.
Can I extend a Schengen visa while I am in Europe?
Only in exceptional circumstances — force majeure, humanitarian reasons, or a late-arising personal reason you could not have foreseen. An extension is not available simply because you would like to stay longer, and applying for one is not a substitute for asking for the right duration at the outset.
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Last verified: 8 September 2026. Schengen visa requirements, fees and processing times are set by the individual consulates and the European Commission and change — confirm current requirements with us, or with the consulate, before you apply.
