Registration of the Spanish visa: documents, terms

The favorable climatic conditions of the Spanish Riviera attract a large number of tourists every year. Picturesque landscapes, gentle sea waves, historical monuments and natural attractions, as well as a high level of service - this is just a brief description of the birthplace of incendiary flamenco and awesome bullfighting.

For an excellent holiday, tourists should apply for one of the visas proposed by Spain, most often people choose "Schengen", as it gives free movement throughout the countries that have signed the Schengen agreements. Below you will find a detailed description of the design of the Spanish "Schengen" and all the necessary nuances that may accompany the tourist during the filing of documents.

General concepts of visa regime

Spanish visa is one of the most popular among the "Schengen". And this is not surprising, it is worth taking a look only at the paradise beaches of Tenerife and the Gothic Cathedral in Barcelona. Obtaining a Spanish visa primarily depends on the correct data recorded in the application form. Usually, the manufacturing process can take up to fifteen days, but there is an option to get it in three.

All the details and rules for applying for a Spanish visa are indicated in the official source of Spain in the Russian Federation - on the website of the embassy. You need to be extremely careful when contacting third parties offering assistance in submitting documents and guaranteeing one hundred percent confirmation in obtaining a Spanish visa. Sometimes people run into scammers and thus instead of receiving a document in a passport, they suddenly find themselves in visa quarantine.

There are times when a Spanish visa is still valid, but the passport is no longer (for example, the expiration date has expired or the passport has been damaged for various reasons). In such moments, unfortunately, the visa also expires. And in addition to issuing a new passport, the tourist will need to submit documents for a Spanish visa. That is, no transfers are made and presenting a new passport along with a visa in the old at the passport control will fail.

Getting a visa in high season

The season in Spain begins in May and ends in October. In this regard, the consular department receives a large number of notifications and applications for a Spanish visa. Because of this, there is a tightening of requirements for candidates:

• It will be necessary to submit documents at least twenty-two days before the start of the trip.
• The terms for the examination and manufacture of a Spanish Schengen visa will take up to five business days and above. The day the applicant brought all the papers to the embassy is usually not counted.
• In the absence of at least one necessary certificate, the documents will not be accepted. Therefore, potential tourists should worry in advance about all the nuances and check the official list required by the Spanish authorities.
• Absolutely all data must be in printed form, you should not bring any media with documentation in electronic form (for example, flash cards).
• If changes are necessary in the questionnaire, then the applicant himself makes it, who filled out this questionnaire.

Visa Options

For foreigners, there are several options for Spanish visas that have special differences among themselves:

• Short-term visa "Schengen" type C is issued for tourist purposes.
• Visa for transit in case of using the country as a transfer point.
• Category D national visa. This is a long-term entry document.
• Student visa requested by students enrolling in Spanish higher education.
• A resident visa is issued to citizens living in Spain permanently.

Most often a "Schengen" category C is issued - a Spanish visa, the duration of stay for which is ninety days.

In order to apply for a visa, you need to collect a certain package of documents and submit biometric data. Since 2015, all citizens applying for a Schengen visa must personally come to the Spanish Embassy for fingerprinting - fingerprinting, from which underage children under twelve years of age are exempted. However, the procedure for taking biometric photographs is mandatory for all applicants.

Schengen decoration

To obtain a Spanish visa in Moscow, tourists must collect the following documentation:

• Printed and correctly filled out application form. It must be signed directly by the applicant. Application form for a Spanish visa for a child is filled out separately.
• A foreign passport of a citizen with a validity period of at least three months from the moment the tourist returns to his homeland. The passport must have at least two blank sheets for gluing in a visa and affixing an entry and exit stamp.
• Copies of all pages of a foreign passport: the first page with personal data should be duplicated twice.
• Two color photographs with dimensions of 35 by 45 millimeters. The photo should be missing corners and ovals. The face is located on a white or light background. One photo is pasted into the application form for a Spanish visa.
• Copies of all pages of old foreign passports with all marks and visas of other countries.

• Xerocopied pages of a Russian passport. Copy absolutely everything.
• A copy of health insurance, which applies to all types of medical activities, and the amount of coverage is at least thirty thousand euros. It must be valid throughout the Schengen area.
• Certificate of employment, which is issued on a special letterhead of the company. The certificate data should indicate the position of the applicant, length of service, monthly salary. It also states that the employer provides another vacation and saves his employee his job for the duration of his vacation. The certificate is signed by the head of the company, and the official seal is placed on top. Those who have the status of an individual entrepreneur will need to attach a form of certificate of registration of the enterprise, a copy of the document proving the payment of all taxes for the past year, and a photocopied TIN.

Additional documents

If a Spanish visa in Moscow is issued by a citizen who is in the status of unemployed, then he must have a sponsor who will cover his expenses. To prove financial security, the sponsor submits a statement of intention to pay for the sponsored trip, the same certificate from the workplace described above, a copy of the passport page with personal information and any document that can confirm kinship if the sponsorship comes from a loved one.

Pensioners can also get a Spanish visa in Moscow. In addition to all the above documents, the embassy should bring a copy of the pension certificate, a paper confirming the financial security for the entire period of rest (this can be an extract from the bank from a personal account, a traveller's check or sponsorship from a second person). In the case of sponsoring the trip, a person must attach a certificate from the sponsor’s workplace, a copy of the Russian civil passport, as well as a document according to which the relationship will be confirmed.

How to get a Spanish visa for a student or school student? First of all, a certificate is taken from the place of his study at the moment, a copy of the student ID and paper from the sponsor (a statement, a copy of the Russian civil passport, as well as evidence of the relationship of the sponsor and the student). To be sure that the money issue will not cause additional problems in applying for a visa, a document is presented to the Spanish Embassy stating the sponsor’s current account with an amount of 562 euros or more. The calculation is from 57 euros per day per person. If the applicant draws up a visa at the Consulate of St. Petersburg, then the daily rate is 62 euros per person, but at least 562 euros for the whole trip.

For those who have never drawn up a Schengen, the best supplement to such bank statements will be documents proving their own property, owning a vehicle, and so on.

Also, a printout of confirmation of the round-trip ticket reservation for both the aircraft, and the train, sea vessel or bus will be an ideal option. In addition to all of the above, paper is required to confirm the reservation of the hotel room. It can be obtained by fax with the signature of the general manager. It is possible to submit a rental contract, but in any case, the applicant’s data must be indicated everywhere (name, date of residence, etc.).

When a person goes to visit relatives or friends, an invitation is issued, which is certified by a notary by the inviting person. Documents proving the identity of the inviting person in the form of a copy of a passport or residence permit, a certificate indicating the registration of the receiving party, and any version of the document proving kinship are attached to it.

Of course, despite the fact that all the papers will be collected in due quantity and coincide with the list of requirements, the consular department employee has the final say. So, he has the right to call the applicant for a personal conversation and to request some more documentation in an additional format. By the way, in such cases, he calls the indicated numbers for verification, and if the data is false, an immediate refusal will follow.

When a citizen leaves an application for a visa, the validity of which exceeds one hundred and eighty days, the consul has the right to demand documents that prove a legal and valid visit to the country on a previous visa, for example:

• Copies of previously issued visas, coupled with stamps of entries and exits.
• Tear-off boarding passes from past trips or old copies of tickets.
• Checks from paid hotel rooms or from a car rental company.
• Checks confirming that you have made purchases in Spain during previous trips (a printout of the movement of capital from a bank account will also be appropriate).

Travel with baby

If a citizen is going on a trip with his child, then in addition to the full package of documents, additional ones are collected in the form of:

• Copies of the birth certificate (the original should be taken with you).
• If the child officially has a second parent, then he needs consent to be exported, he should be certified by a notary. Moreover, a copy of the Russian passport with personal data is attached to the document, and the parent’s registration address, full name, is indicated in the permission itself. accompanying. The purpose of the trip should be tourism. There are countries proposed to visit in addition to Spain, and the full duration of the trip.

Sometimes the embassy requires a cross-authorization signed by both parents. Such cases are:

• Obtaining a multivisa for a child with a validity period of six months, a year, three years or five years.
• If parents fly to Spain on different days or on different flights. The same thing with the return to their homeland.
• If one of the parents has a permanent residence permit in Spain and most of the time is on the Spanish side.
• If during the trip one parent intends to leave the Spanish state for some time.

There are times when it is not possible to take a power of attorney from the second parent, then an official paper with the reasons for his absence, for example, a divorce document or a single mother’s certificate, will be required. There is an option to get a special police certificate in which there will be a note about the unknown location of the second spouse.

When the children are inscribed in the parent's passport, the visa sticker on the child is glued along with the "Schengen". Also, all children over six years old must have a photograph in their parental passport. But from the age of fourteen, a child is required to obtain his own foreign passport.

Terms of registration and the cost of "Schengen"

The cost of a Schengen visa in the usual format is 35 euros. A visa fee may be added to this amount if the applicant applies for help at the visa center.

Application review usually takes place within five to ten business days. And in the case of filing documents from Russian regions, the whole process is delayed by about three more days due to mail forwarding. Therefore, some use the service of an urgent visa.

Urgent design option

To obtain a Spanish visa independently and urgently, the applicant must purchase tickets for certain dates and attach them to the main documents. The cost in this case, of course, changes:

• For adults and children over the age of six, sixty euros.
• For children under six years of age inscribed in the foreign passport of the parent - free of charge.

By the way, for holders of a multivisa there is an excellent option for renewal. According to the legislation of the European Union, if a citizen's visa expires in the middle of the proposed vacation, it will be easier to extend it to the required date instead of filling out all the documents on a new one.

Refusal to issue a visa

What failure options can be:

1. There are not enough documents proving the purpose of the trip.
2. Submission of knowingly false information.

Most often, the situation of the second category arises when applicants provide fake papers with hotel reservations or fake tickets and invitations.

However, a citizen is allowed to appeal, but no later than a month after receiving a visa refusal. An appeal should be filed directly to the place where the documents for obtaining the "Schengen" were considered. It is made out in English or Spanish. If the applicant cannot be present at the embassy or consulate when submitting the document, a power of attorney is drawn up for the person representing his interests.

Moreover, the appeal can be sent by mail, then a registered letter will help. This is convenient if the citizen lives far from all official Spanish missions. It is worth considering that in electronic form no document will be accepted. But the answer from the embassy will be sent by e-mail.

What must be indicated in the appeal:

• FULL NAME. a person who was refused a Spanish visa, passport details, contacts (all options for phone numbers and email).
• The place where the documentation was submitted.
• The indicated reason why the visa was not issued.
• Words of objection by the applicant.

A copy of the refusal notice from the consular department and any other documents confirming the rightness of the citizen are attached to the appeal.

In the event of a repeated refusal, an appeal is lodged with the Spanish Supreme Court, located in Madrid. This procedure is carried out no later than two months after the second refusal. It should be understood that any costs will be incurred at the expense of the applicant.

Information for residents of the Crimean peninsula

The Spanish embassy, located in the capital of the Russian Federation, as well as the Consulate General in St. Petersburg, recognizes Crimeans as Russian citizens and accepts documents from them for applying for any type of visa. All requirements correspond to the above information.