In order to improve border security, the Federal Council intends to contribute €300 million to the Schengen Funds. Switzerland will receive roughly CHF 50 million as part of this plan from the fund to assist domestic measures. An official statement from the Federal Council’s fund for national initiatives served as [...]
Hungary has lately received the support of the Russian Federation’s tourism agency as a viable choice for Russian citizens seeking a Schengen visa. They would be allowed to travel around Europe with this visa, especially when certain nations are not giving travel documents as a result of the military crisis [...]
More than 132,000 people obtained citizenship between 2011 and 2019 as a result of residency and citizenship investment programs offered by various European countries, including Portugal, Greece, Italy, and Spain. These conclusions are based on a recent Biz News story that emphasizes that the difficulty of obtaining visas through these [...]
Algerian nationals applied for 239,927 visas in total from French consulates in 2022. A sizeable 64.5 percent of these, or 115,807 applications, were turned down. This result places France as the country that refused the most visa requests from Algerian citizens that year. According to Schengen Statistics, France emerged as [...]
According to local media, three Vietnamese males who attempted to enter Germany using fake passports have been given jail terms of six months. One of them also had to do time in prison for supplying a fake passport. Nguyen Van Hung, 27, was detained while attempting to board an aircraft [...]
The abuse of appointments by middlemen has been brought up once more by Moroccan residents applying for Schengen visas. All available appointment times are reportedly reserved by these middlemen, who subsequently sell them for inflated fees on the black market, effectively preventing legitimate applicants from receiving visas. For Moroccan students [...]