What is the proverbial "Schengen"?
The fact that the participating countries of the European Union in the framework of the process of building a United Europe in the time agreed that their citizens can freely cross the border each other without unnecessary bureaucracy and formalities.
This agreement is called "Schengen agreement" and abolished the need for visas for citizens of States which have adhered to it. Initially adhered to the agreement of 15 countries, in late 2007 the Schengen area came in 9 countries (mainly Eastern Europe). Thus, in the presence of the passport coveted "eurostampa" when you have time and desire will be able to tour the whole of Europe and to visit 24 countries.
The only exception is the UK and Switzerland, which is still stubbornly refuse to let myself unregulated flows of tourists. A number of Balkan countries and former Soviet republics (excluding the Baltic) is also not yet part of the Schengen area into force of the difficult political and socio-economic situation.
The Schengen visa is of several types: A transit visa is issued for a transplant for air travel, B - ordinary transit visa, C - ordinary visa to visit the country (tourist or business), D - visa for a long stay in the country.
We are primarily interested in the Schengen visa type C, it is suitable for tourist purposes. This type of visa also has two varieties - one time, when a person can enter the Schengen area only once, twice, with two entrances, and the so-called "multivisa" with an unlimited number of entries into the Schengen area.
In addition, visas vary according to the valid number of days of stay in the Schengen area. Most often, embassies of European countries give tourists a single entry visa, the necessity of a multiple entry visa you have to prove.
What are the rules for the use of visas for citizens of countries outside the Schengen area?
The main requirement is a Schengen visa must be issued by the Embassy of the country in which you intend to spend most of my European trip (or trips).
For example, if you rented on Christmas vacation cottage in Finland and I'm going to spend a week, and then stop for a couple of days in the capital of Sweden Stockholm, then to apply for a visa you need in Finnish Embassy.
If days in different countries, you assume equally, there is no difference in what the Embassy to go, although in this case slightly prefer the country of first entry into the Schengen zone. In this case we are talking about the formal rules established by the member countries of the Schengen agreement. But we are interested in the maximum capacity with minimum bureaucracy and time-consuming.
Therefore, it is necessary to take into account the following fact - movement within the Schengen zone of passport control itself does not, that is your passport will not put stamps on departure/arrival, for example, when traveling from Germany to the Netherlands.
Therefore, with a Schengen visa at the German Embassy for 20 days and arrived in Europe through Germany, you in reality can, with impunity, to spend just one day (or one hour), spending the rest of the time in Holland or any other country in the Schengen area. However, back home it's still recommended through Germany in order to avoid provocative questions at the border and possible problems with the new visa.
How to get this coveted ticket in Western Europe?
The Embassy of each country imposes its own set of requirements to the applicant, up to the different background colors on your pictures. However, in General terms, a list of these requirements are similar - in addition to a number of standard documents, which will be described below, you typically need to provide documented justification for your trip.
This can be an invitation from a private person (for example, your relative is abroad) or company (for example, your business partner), travel voucher, tickets to any event (concert, festival, football match, conference) paid for the reservation in the hotel.
Rarely, you may have a Bank account statement for the identity of your financial viability. Also you need to provide the Embassy of the application form, your personal passport and passport for your child, if you are traveling with the whole family, the validity of which is not less than three months, a color photo and an insurance policy covering the entire period of time for which you are requesting a visa.
Before you apply for a Schengen visa, it is recommended to carefully study the entire set of requirements to provide documents of the state as a rule, it is published on the website of the Embassy.
The Embassy or Consulate of the States parties to the Schengen agreement is most often located in Kiev, some are in other regional centers that are geographically close to the country of entry. As already mentioned, formally, to obtain a Schengen visa needs at the Embassy of the country where you will spend most of the trip. However, there are nuances.
The hardest Ukrainian traveler in Europe. Our Western neighbors still do not tend to see us or EU, or simply as tourists. Especially rage brothers-Slavs themselves recently became the Schengen countries. Czech Republic even introduced for Ukrainians mandatory medical certificate for visa. However, this concerns only those who come into the country more than 90 days. But simple for tourists to obtain a visa in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia is quite difficult. It is also not very loyal to the Ukrainian Consulate in Spain, France and Greece.
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