• According to the EU Visa Code by putting fingerprints exempt for the following categories of applicants:

    • Children up to 12 years old;
    • Individuals who are physically unable to undergo the procedure of fingerprint scanning. If it is possible to scan in less than 10 fingers, you should scan the maximum possible number of fingers. If the impossibility of taking fingerprints is temporary, the applicant will have to go through the procedure of scanning during the next visa application;
    • Heads of State and Governments and members of the national government with accompanying their spouses as well as members of official delegations, when touring with the official purpose of the invitation of the Schengen countries or international organizations;
    • Monarch and the royal family members in the commission of an official trip at the invitation of the Schengen countries or international organizations.

  • How long will my data be stored in the system?

    The data is stored in the system for 5 years and then deleted.

  • How often do you need to provide their data to the Visa Information System?

    The biometric data (digital photographs and fingerprints) must be renewed every 5 years. Textual information (profile) and other documents (as required by the country to which you are applying for a visa) must be provided with any request for a visa

  • I have a valid visa in one of the countries of the Schengen agreement, which expires after 14 of September. Is this visa after September 14?

    All visas issued before September 14 will be valid until the end of his term. Getting a visa under the new system should be after the expiry of the current visa.

  • If I have already passed the consulate fingerprints of one of the Schengen countries, do I have to take them again the next time applying for a Schengen visa at the consulate of another country?

    VIS is common to all Schengen states. After fingerprints taken when applying any Schengen consulate in the world and stored in the VIS have access to all the consulates of other Schengen countries, and they will be copied to the subsequent applications within 59 months. Only if there is reasonable doubt as to the identity of the applicant or in the case of technical impossibility to copy fingerprints, consulates may during this period ask the applicant to be fingerprinted again. The applicant may also be asked to be fingerprinted if at the time of submission of the application is not possible to immediately confirm that the fingerprints were taken in the last five years.

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