MARRIAGE in Belgium with EU citizen (NON-BELGIAN)

This visa allows you to celebrate your marriage in Belgium, with your partner residing in Belgium. To avoid any disappointment, applicants are advised to submit their complete files at least 3 to 4 working weeks before the intended date of departure.

Guarantees for return (assessment of migration risk): The applicant is requested to provide as much information as possible to document his/her family background, professional and socio-economic status, ownership of land or real estate (for instance : proof of family bonds with his/her country of origin, proof of regular income and stable source of revenues from the applicant and/or his/her partner, proof of property, etc.)

This information is essential to correctly judge the intention of the applicant to leave the Schengen area before the expiry of his/her visa.

In case you have already submitted your fingerprints for a previous Schengen visa application in the last 59 months, you are not required to submit them again.

However, If you are uncertain whether your fingerprints have been captured for a Schengen visa within the last 59 months, you are advised to appear in person.

Kindly note that, if it would appear that the fingerprints prove not to be present in the VIS system, you will be asked to reappear in person for new biometric data collection. To avoid this possible complication, you have the right to ask for your fingerprints to be taken again.

Please note:

• The applicable visa fee in LBP is as per the current exchange rate. It is subject to change without notice due to sudden foreign exchange fluctuations.
• Applicant shall be levied a service charge of euro 23.5 paid in LBP as per the exchange rate per application over and above visa fees (all applicable taxes included).

All fees are non-refundable.

Visa C - for MARRIAGE in Belgium with EU citizen (NON BELGIAN)

File to be presented in 1 original and 2 copies

Required documents:

1. National passport into which a visa can be affixed and which is valid for more than 12 months
2. Completed and signed visa application form with 1 recent color photograph (5x3cm) with white background glued on the application form
3. Copy of the identity page of your passport

1. From the partner to be joined in Belgium

4. Declaration of marriage, delivered by the city hall in Belgium, within 6 months prior to the visa application + 1 copy

5. Original of guarantee letter “3bis” issued by the city hall in Belgium with its annexes + 1copy (unless applicant provides sufficient personal financial means)

   https://dofi.ibz.be/sites/dvzoe/FR/Documents/Annexe_03_02.pdf

6. Copy of the residence permit (front + back)

2. From the visa applicant

7. The documents indicating that you have sufficient personal means of subsistence : copy of updated bank statement/pass book or proof of your profession and copy of recent pay slips etc. (unless a guarantee letter “3bis” is provided)
8. Copy of private travel insurance of the visa applicant valid in Belgium and covering a minimum of 30.000€ medical costs for a minimum period of 3 months.

3. From both partners

9. Proof of chronicle history of your relationship (photographs, letters, mails, telephone bills, money transfers, copies of previous visas and immigration stamps, signed declarations of friends and relatives, proof of holidays together, etc.)

Remarks:

1. Please note that the city hall in Belgium might require your original legalized birth certificate upon your registration in Belgium.
2. Minimum age of both partners must be 21 years old or 18 years old if you can submit proof justifying that you and your partner have been lived together at least 1 year before your arrival in Belgium
3. Additional documents, even if not featured in the list above, may be required by the Embassy during the process
4. The administrative fee is non-refundable if the visa is denied.
5. The type of visa is a C-type visa (short stay). Once the marriage is registered in Belgium, the applicant will receive a Belgian residence card with which he/she can stay in Belgium;
6. The type of visa that we issue for marriage in Belgium is a type C/Schengen visa. In general, for type C/Schengen visa, a return flight ticket is required. However, as an exception, for marriage in Belgium, a one-way flight ticket is sufficient for the Belgian authorities. As all airlines staff members are not always aware of this exception, if you have bought/want to buy a one-way flight ticket, we advise you to take contact with the airline before departure and check if they will let you board the aircraft.
7. A later change to the purpose of the visit is not admissible. A prolongation of the visa is not possible. In both cases, a new application has to be entered.
8. For more detailed information on supporting documents, processing times, tracking the progress of your visa application, legal background and other immigration related topics, please refer to the website of the Immigration Office of Belgium: https://dofi.ibz.be/sites/dvzoe/FR/Guidedesprocedures/Pages/Regroupement_familial/Venir_se_marier_en_Belgique.aspx

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Applicants need to submit your Application form with the new photo format, as explained below:

General

The photo must fulfill the norm specified by the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization).

• Use plain light-coloured background.
• The photo must be no more than 6-months old.
• Not tilted picture (portrait style) showing both edges of face clearly.
• Close up of the head and top of the shoulders so that the face takes up 70–80% of the photograph.
• Photo in sharp focus and clear.

Photo Size

The photo for each visa applicant submitted must measure:

• The picture dimensions must be 240 pixels wide by 320 pixels high at least. A smaller picture will be rejected. For instance, a photo being 235 pixels by 320 pixels is not valid.
• On the other hand, the photo should keep a proportion of 3 x 4 (width x height) within limits. However, 250 x 340 pixels picture would be valid, but not a 290 x 340 pixels one.
• Finally, the image weight (size in Kbytes) can never be bigger than 120 Kbytes. Finally, the image weight (size in Kbytes) can never be bigger than 120 Kbytes.

Resolution

• An image resolution is measured in DPI (dots per inch) and it's mainly used to control printing quality. Therefore, higher resolution means better printing quality.
• Photos resolution should be 300 dpi, so, when you scan the image, check this parameter carefully. However, bear in mind that the higher the resolution, the bigger the picture.
• The only image format accepted is JPEG (Join Photograph Expert Grup Format). The other image formats such as BMP, TIFF, GIF, PNG, etc. will be rejected (a warning will be shown).
  • Attaching the Photo to the Application form
• Glue one photograph to the application form in the designated space.

Note: If children are traveling with their parents and are included inside the passport of the mother and/or the father, one photograph for each children MUST be glued to the application form of the father or the mother, depending on whom are they traveling with.

Please follow these instructions carefully. If the photograph presented do not meet these requirements your application will be considered incomplete.

Processing time for a short term stay (Visa Schengen).

As a general rule, once a Schengen visa application is submitted, a decision is taken within 15 calendar days. This period may, in individual cases, be extended up to 30 days and, exceptionally, 60 days, if a more detailed examination of your application and/or additional documents are required

As for the long term visa that depends on the examination of applications submitted