For how many days before the trip, you can submit documents for a Schengen visa
The question of how many days before the trip is drawn up with a Schengen visa becomes relevant to all who choose a summer vacation place almost at the last moment. Indeed, the countries of the Schengen Agreement cannot be visited without a visa, but time for its design can be different. We will try to figure out when "the last train" goes "for those who are going to Europe.
What depends on the date of registration
There is a standard deadline for issuing a Schengen visa under the agreement between the participating countries - 14 days. However, in practice it is not always worth oriented on it. This time may vary depending on the following factors:
- seasonality peaks sale and vacation period;
- the popularity of a country's popularity in Russians at a certain time of the year or in general;
- type of visa, followed by the applicant;
- goals of the visit;
- ready to spend money on intermediaries and urgent design.
Some countries are particularly carefully studying the applications of Russian tourists. For example, after 2014, the number of failures in the Spanish visa Russians increased by 2 times, and the number of appeals decreased by 40%. Polish consulate is much more willing to give the resolution of the week Czech. There is a practice of receiving Shengen in a country, more loyal to the Russians, but it must be remembered that the first entrance should go through the country who issued a visa.
Maximum time
The maximum period for submitting documents 3 months regardless of the type of visa. Therefore, it makes no sense to contact either consular bodies in any visa centers if you purchase a ready-made ticket from the tour operator, then his staff will independently take care of all the necessary documentation.
If you are planning a trip on your own and you will personally feed, you should use the opportunity to submit documents in advance, after all, the queue for submitting an application in the consulate can be painted for a month and more forward. In addition, feeding documents yourself, you risks to allow inaccuracies, due to which the application will be rejected before the troubleshooting.
If you first appealed for a visa since the fall of 2015, it will also have to take into account the time for recording the biometric data - fingerprints. The record schedule in some visa centers is quite dense, because when calculating it is worth throwing another week.
Attention! Consular employees particularly carefully consider candidates of applicants for immigration visas. The package of documents here is more and tested tougher, because the probability of refusal from the first time is quite large. When applying for such permissions, it is worth submitting applications for more than 1.5 months.
Official term
On most of the official sites of the diplomatic missions of Schengen countries, a period of 14 to 10 days is specified with a reservation for possible changes related to seasonality and the workload of the consular department. The embassy undertakes to make documents during this time, provided that the documents will be submitted correctly and in full, and the applicant will have time to find the "window" in the chart.
If time remains not so much, then it is better to contact the visa center. Employees of the Center will not only check the entire set of necessary documents, but also with high probability will provide a visa on time. The services of the visa center are not too expensive, usually not more than 30 euros.
Accelerated decoration
If only a couple of days remained at your disposal, then not everyone is lost. Most consular departments provide an accelerated visa service for 3 days, and sometimes day. In this case, the consular collected will increase to 70 euros. There were cases when the applicant managed to receive a visa 6 hours before departure.
Unfortunately, not all visa centers provide an urgent visa design. In this case, the Russians have to contact the tour operators. For a significant surcharge sometimes greater than the size of the consular fee 2 times, they undertake to obtain a visa within 24 hours. This is indeed possible, in fact, the same accelerated visa design occurs, only through an intermediary. The price of a single tourist visa with an urgent design through a travel agency can reach 150 euros. When choosing an operator, make sure that it is accredited, refer to the checked specialists.
So, the answer to the question about when the documents can be submitted to the Schengen visa, largely depends on the desire of the applicant to independently deal with the design and submission of documents, seasonality of tourism and why a foreigner goes.
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