Have you ever applied for a Schengen visa?

1 Schengen countries should adopt uniform policies on the movement of people, especially with regard to visas;

2 The Schengen Agreement countries decide to issue a uniform visa that is generally valid within the Schengen area;

3. A short-term travel visa that allows for a single or double entry, provided that the total number of days of stay does not exceed 3 months within six months of the first entry;

4 The national visas of each country should be recognized before the Schengen visa is used;

5 Under the Schengen Agreement, travelers with a valid residence permit in any of the Schengen Member States may travel freely within the Schengen area without a visa for a period of 3 months. Travellers outside the Schengen area can travel to a Schengen country without a visa as long as they have a valid residence permit and passport for that country. For stays of more than 90 days, applicants should apply for a national visa in accordance with the relevant laws and the purpose of their stay;

6. The unified Schengen visa shall be issued by the diplomatic and consular authorities of the countries of the agreement;

7 In principle, the country that issued a Schengen visa should be the main destination country of the visa holder, and if the two destination countries have stayed for a similar period of time (to the nearest hour), the country of the first entry may issue a Schengen visa;

8. The travel document must be valid longer than the validity of the visa, and the travel document must ensure that the alien outside the Schengen area can return to his or her country or enter a country outside the Schengen area;

9. Each country has the right to decide whether a person has the right to enter the country, or to be denied entry, and that Schengen visas issued by other countries will be restricted when used in another Schengen country, provided that the country informs the other countries of the agreement;

10 On 26 March 1995, the Schengen Agreement first entered into force in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, and the seven countries began to implement Schengen visas. At the end of 1997, Italy, Greece and Austria successively implemented Schengen visas. Since 25 March 2001, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark have been issuing Schengen visas. The number of Schengen visa member countries has grown to 25 to date.

If you have applied for a Schengen visa, please describe if you have any questions.

The Schengen visa is not difficult to obtain, and there are relatively more independent travel in France, Italy and Switzerland in the market. In fact, the visa difficulty of these Schengen countries in Europe is similar, and the documents that need to be prepared are similar.

Since March 26, 1995, Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and other countries have introduced Schengen visas.

Holders of valid visas issued by the embassies and consulates of the above-mentioned countries are allowed to travel freely between the Schengen countries, unless otherwise specified on the visa.

1. If you are visiting only one Schengen country, you must apply for a visa at the embassy or consulate of that country.

2. If you are visiting more than one Schengen country, you must apply for a visa at the embassy or consulate of the main destination country (the country with the longest stay).

3. If you visit many countries but there is no main destination, you must apply for a visa at the embassy or consulate of the first country of entry.

4. The first stop of the applicant to Europe should be the country that issued the visa, and then he or she can enter other Schengen countries.

5. If the first stop of the applicant's arrival is a non-visa-issuing country, the applicant may be detained or repatriated.

6. The applicant must first leave the Schengen country and then enter the visa-issuing country, and is not allowed to enter the visa-issuing country directly from the country of arrival (non-visa-issuing country).

Because there are many steps, but if you follow the steps, it will not be much more troublesome than the intermediary, and the intermediary does not need you to go to the various notary offices or visa offices in person.

On June 24, 1985, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg signed an agreement in the Luxembourg border town of Schengen, stipulating that their member states issue a uniform form of visa to short-term visitors, that is, once a Schengen visa applicant obtains a visa to a certain country, he can travel freely in all Schengen countries during the validity period of the visa.

So far, 26 Schengen countries have joined the Schengen Agreement, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

If you apply for a visa to one of these countries, you can also travel to one of the Schengen countries within the validity period.

The visa center ** has written, just prepare according to it, unlike other types of leave certificates, you need to provide your parents' work certificate and bank statements, and some countries may also notarize kinship, it's not very difficult, many people have signed out.