Consulates charge € 60 per Schengen visa application. This amount is the same irrespect of the duration or the number of entries of the visa. This fee is not refundable if the visa be denied. The visa fee is charged in Euros, in US dollars or in the national currency of the country where the visa application is made.
Schengen visas are issued free of charge to:
- the spouse and to the children under 21 years of age of a European Union national or of a EEA national.
- children under 6 years.
- school pupils, students, post graduate students and accompanying teachers who undertake trips for the purpose of study or educational training.
- researchers from third countries travelling within the Community for the purpose of carrying out scientific research.
In individual cases, the amount of the fee to be charged may be waived or reduced in accordance with national law when this measure serves to promote cultural interests as well as interests in the field of foreign policy, development policy, other areas of vital public interest or for humanitarian reasons.
A fee reduction or waiver for nationals of a third country may also be the result of a visa facilitation agreement concluded between the European Community and that third country consistent with the Community's overall approach to visa facilitation agreements.
Until 1 January 2008, the visa fee remains € 35 for the nationals of third countries in respect of which the Council has given the Commission a mandate to negotiate a visa facilitation agreement by 1 January 2007. This countries are Albania, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Serbia, Russia and Ukraine.
