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ReservationPoints Schengen & Europe Visa Desk

This desk covers the Schengen visa file and European entry rules: what the Visa Code requires, and where individual consulates ask for something different.

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What this desk covers

The Schengen visa file and the wider European entry rules. The legal framework (Visa Code Article 6(1), Article 14, Annex I, Annex II Section B), member-state divergence, means of subsistence, accommodation proof for a Schengen application, application sequencing, consular verification, and the United Kingdom’s separate regime.

What it reasons from

These are the classes of source this desk is permitted to use. Where a page states a rule, the rule is quoted from one of them, with the date it was read.

• The EU Visa Code and its annexes, cited by article and annex number
• Individual member-state consulate and ministry pages, in the member state's own words, with the URL and the date read
• European Commission visa policy pages
• UK Home Office guidance
• Where consulates disagree, both are quoted — the divergence is the story

Geographic focus

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and any other European country by region fallback.

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Corrections

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