How to apply for a Portuguese visa?

Visa application process The most troublesome thing about traveling abroad is the visa. If your visa is settled, you can pack your bags. In fact, sometimes applying for a visa feels like taking a driver's license, so you can feel it.

Before applying for a visa to any country, the first step is to log in to that country's embassy, official website, or visa center, official website, to find out the materials and procedures required for the destination to apply for a destination country.

Portugal Schengen visa can refer to the website: click to view.

Visa materials 1. Visa application form: applicants must fill in and sign, and minors should be filled in and signed by their parents or legal guardians: click to view.

★ Knock on the blackboard! All the contents in the visa application form can be filled in as required, but I want to remind you once again that the "estimated stay time" and "estimated arrival/departure date" must not be wrong! Especially when the ticket involves cross-dates, we must carefully check the time of arrival in Schengen. If the entry time on the visa does not match the actual entry time, it will bring a series of troubles, and I will also mention the history of blood and tears later.

2. Passport: its validity period is not less than 3 months after the expiration of the visa to be applied for, and it must have at least two consecutive blank visa pages and personal information pages. If there are extension pages and visas from other countries and all used pages, two copies of the first and last pages and one copy of all used pages should be provided. If the visa page of the latest fingerprint information collection is on the old passport, you need to show the old passport.

★ Knock on the blackboard! According to the regulations of the embassy, copies of all pages should be provided. Please provide a copy of all valid or expired visas in your passport and a copy of the passport use page.

3. passport-sized photos

Photos in the last 6 months, 3.5x4.5 on a white background.

4. An effective travel medical insurance: covering the whole period of stay in Portugal, with a minimum amount of 30,000 euros. Insurance must cover the expenses of emergency medical treatment and emergency hospitalization due to physical illness and the repatriation of remains.

Applicants applying for multiple-entry visas must provide insurance that meets the above requirements during their first stay in Portugal.

★ Both domestic Ping An Insurance and overseas Allianz Insurance are available, and you can place an order for insurance in Taobao.

5. The original household registration book and copies of all pages.

6. Proof and guarantee of means of transportation for returning to the country of residence: round-trip air ticket reservation, car or boat ticket; If it is go on road trip, please provide your driver's license and proof of renting a car. If the applicant goes to a third country, he must provide the itinerary (travel ticket, etc.). ).

★ Whether the airline official website or the major agents book air tickets, after the payment is successful, a confirmation letter will be sent to their reserved mailbox and printed.

7. Accommodation order:

★ Full proof of accommodation: Booking or Airbnb & B is the mainstream of booking now. In my experience, if you book B&B, it is best to attach the bill and confirmation form of the website and choose the language of the destination country.

Tips: Hotel or B&B residents had better write it down and mark it in red, which is helpful for visa officers to review it quickly.

8. Travel plan Travel route:

★ A true and complete travel itinerary can clearly show whether you have made careful preparations for this trip. Here, it is very convenient for Amway's poor travel assistants to directly choose the printed signing method every time they travel. Including daily attractions, modes of transportation and accommodation can be presented at a glance.

9. On-the-job certificate: Take the materials that the on-the-job personnel need to prepare as an example.

★ A copy of the current company's business license must be stamped with the official seal.

Original certification letter issued by the company's work unit (in English or Chinese, with English translation). The letter of proof must be written in official paper, signed by the relevant leaders, dated and stamped with the official seal. The contents shall include:

Detailed address, telephone number and fax number of the applicant's work unit.

Name and position of the signatory of the certification letter

Name, position, salary and working years of the applicant

Vacation certificate

10. Proof of the applicant's funds: bank statements in the last 3-6 months, with balance and transaction records on the statements.

★ I printed out the running water of the last six months, and highlighted the income and salary of each month with a marker in advance, so as to facilitate the visa officer to review and obtain information. The most important thing about running a bank is that it has a fixed income every month.

Application process

First, submit an application.

On the whole, Portugal is still an unpopular destination for China people, and not many people apply for visas. Official website introduced that all applicants applying for short-term visit to Portugal need to submit their applications directly to the Portuguese Visa Application Center, without making an appointment to submit their personal applications.

However, if more than 5 people are submitted at the same time or the ADS group needs to make an appointment by calling or mailing the visa application center in advance, this method is usually adopted by the travel society. Therefore, it is suggested that students who go to Portugal for free travel should call the visa center in advance to ask if there are a large number of group reservations, or they can wait in line before opening the door to ensure that they can go ahead of the travel agency to save time to the greatest extent.

Second, you can get multiple Schengen visas.

Generally speaking, Portugal does not adjust its work, but 14 work sunrise sign. We chose to notify by SMS, and we can also check the progress at the official website Embassy. There are SMS and email notifications in every process from obtaining a passport from the visa center to submitting it to the embassy for review and then returning to the visa center. If the visa is refused, you can appeal once and send an email to the embassy with the reasons for the appeal and supplementary materials.

Although the staff of the intermediary suggested that we should not check "multiple applications" when submitting materials, otherwise the visa officer may refuse "multiple applications" or even refuse the visa once. However, I silently changed back to a single round trip.

But when we received the visa, it gave us both a big surprise! The visa page actually shows a multiple-entry visa. Although it's only been half a year, I can't go again in such a short time, but I'm still very excited to get a Schengen multiple-entry visa for the first time!