Visa Details For Schengen States

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Schengen VISA Information

Who needs a Schengen Visa?

Schengen Area nowadays covers most of the European Countries with an exception made for the United
Kingdom and the countries that are soon to be part of this agreement as Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus
and Ireland. Although not members of the European Union, the following countries like Norway, Iceland,
Switzerland and Lichtenstein are also part of the Schengen zone enjoying the same freedom of movement
policy as the others.

However, regarding the non-members of the Schengen Area there is a mandatory visa requirement to
enter the Schengen Zone for some countries. The countries whose citizens are required to obtain a
Schengen visa in order to enter one of its member countries are listed in the below section.

Afghanistan Ecuador Madagascar Sierra Leone


Algeria Egypt Malawi Solomon Islands
Angola Equatorial Guinea Maldives Somalia
Armenia Eritrea Mali South Africa
Azerbaijan Ethiopia Marshall Islands Sri Lanka
Bahrain Fiji Mauritania St Lucia
Bangladesh Gabon Micronesia St Vincent & The
Grenadines
Belarus Gambia Moldova Sudan
Belize Georgia Mongolia Suriname
Benin Ghana Morocco Swaziland
Bhutan Grenada Mozambique Syria
Bolivia Guinea Namibia Tajikistan
Botswana Guinea-Bissau Nauru Tanzania
Burkina Faso Guyana Nepal Thailand
Burma/Myanmar Haiti Niger Timor-Leste
Burundi India Nigeria Togo
Cambodia Indonesia North Korea Tonga
Cameroon Iran Northern Mariana’s Trinidad and Tobago
Cape Verde Iraq Oman Tunisia
Central African Republic Jamaica Pakistan Turkey
Chad Jordan Palau Turkmenistan
China Kazakhstan Papua New Guinea Tuvalu
Colombia Kenya Peru Uganda
Comoros Kiribati Philippines Ukraine
Congo Kuwait Qatar Uzbekistan
Cote D’ivoire Kyrgyzstan Russia Vanuatu
Cuba Laos Rwanda Vietnam
Dem. Rep. Of Congo Lebanon Samoa Yemen
Djibouti Lesotho Sao Tome And Principe Zambia
Dominica Liberia Saudi Arabia Zimbabwe
Dominican Republic Libya Senegal Kosova

This Document is only relevant to those travelling to a Schengen state, it is accurate at the time of going to print, you should seek the advice of our
consultants for the most accurate information
The amount of days permitted to stay in any of the Schengen zone countries doesn’t exceed 90 days/ three
months every half a year needless of the travel reasons. Also, you got to bear in mind that the fact that you
are able to obtain a Schengen visa to enter and reside for the certain amount of time in a Schengen area
doesn’t apply to working or studying in that country.

In the meantime, there are countries citizens of which need also an airport transit visa in order to change
the airplane at an airport in a Schengen Area country. The list of the countries which are subject to the
airport transit visa in the Schengen Area goes as following:

Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Congo (Drc)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Ghana
Iran
Iraq
Nigeria
Pakistan
Somalia
Sri Lanka

In the case of citizens with more than one nationality the visa requirements depend on the passport he/she
chooses to travel with. If you chose to travel with a passport of a nationality that requires a mandatory visa
you will have to obtain one even if you are in possession of a passport of one of the Schengen member
countries but you are not willing to use it for any reason.

This Document is only relevant to those travelling to a Schengen state, it is accurate at the time of going to print, you should seek the advice of our
consultants for the most accurate information

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