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Reasons for Schengen Visa Rejections or Refusal

List of Schengen Area Countries

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden

Schengen Visa Rejection

What makes an Embassy or Consulate to refuse your Schengen visa application? This question immediately appears to many people when they are about to apply for such a visa. In fact, whenever a Schengen visa or any visa gets rejected, there is something unsatisfactory regarding visa application. 

Schengen visa is difficult to obtain, many Schengen visa applicants get confused and are unable to understand the exact reason for their visa refusal. Here are the most common reasons for Visa Rejections / Refusals. 

  • Incomplete Application Form:

    An incomplete Schengen visa application form will lead to visa rejection. During the time of applying for a Schengen visa, an applicant must submit duly-filled application form. Application must not leave application form blank or fill improper or false details.

  • Insufficient Explanation of Purpose of Travel:

    An insufficient explanation for planned visit can also make an adverse impact on your visa application. Therefore, to avoid that you must make sure to clarity your travel plan and attach the supporting documents such as hotel booking, flight tickets and day-to-day itinerary that explains the same. This will help you justify your purpose of visit to the Schengen area.

  • Insufficient Travel Insurance Coverage:

    An adequate and a valid travel medical insurance is required for applying Schengen visa. Travel medical insurance must be valid in all the countries of the Schengen area and must cover entire duration of stay.

  • Invalid Proof of Accommodation:

    Absence to provide hotel reservation or proof of accommodation may lead to Schengen visa rejection.

  • Insufficient Funds:

    If you are not able to provide enough funds for your means in the Schengen country, it may results into visa refusals. The Embassy or Consulate wants to see that you have required funds to cover your expenses while your stay in Schengen area and that you can afford your return flight tickets and accommodation for your trip. There is no pre-defined fixed amount specified by the Embassy, but it should be equivalent to the cost of your planning trip.

  • Not Having Intention to Return:

    This simply means, the visa officer is not confident that you will be returning to your home country. Visa officers want to avoid people overstaying their visa and/or working without authorization.

Factors Affecting Decision Of Your Schengen Visa

If you are travelling solo and seeking a long-term Schengen visa for the purpose of tourism then this might create a doubtful situation for the visa officer. If the visa officer is unable to draw sufficient evidence which will prove that you will return to your home country can lead to visa rejection.
If you neither an employer nor a student. The visa officer will need right justification on your purpose of visiting Schengen countries and documents that support your intention to return to your home country.
If you are found financially suspicious to the visa officer, it may results into visa refusals. To avoid that, you must have a maintain adequate balance in your bank account which will cover your planned trip to Schengen countries.
Submitting false / counterfeit / forge documents along with your Schengen visa application.
Proper justification for the purpose of visit and the conditions of the intended stay was not provided.
As an applicant, you are required to provide proof of sufficient means of subsistence, for the duration of your intended stay. Failure to provide this may result in visa rejection.
Proof of holding an adequate and valid travel medical insurance was not provided.
The information submitted regarding the justification for the purpose and the conditions of the intended stay was not reliable.
Your intention to leave the territory of the member state before the expiry of the visa could not be ascertained.

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