I'll tell you about our experience of obtaining a Schengen visa on our own. Filed documents in the visa center of Spain, in Moscow.
The questionnaire is completed in English. 1
2 Photo size 3.5x4.5 cm color photo on a white background without angles.1
Passport passport
Passport is not valid if there is one.
Marriage certificate, useful.
Medical insurance for the whole period of stay.
Booking a hotel or apartment for the entire period of stay, it is desirable that they were, then the probability of getting increased several times.
Booking tickets, it is desirable that they too were, then the probability of getting increased.
Help with work, if without a job is not terrible.
Help from the bank is mandatory for everyone, even if you are unemployed. 1
Copies of all pages of the passport are stolen, even empty ones.
Copies of all pages of non-valid foreign passport, even blank.
Copies of Russian pages, where text or print.
A copy of the marriage certificate.
Paragraph 1 Last name, 2 surname if it was the other, before the marriage. 3 name. 4 Date of birth Day Dash month Dash year. 5 birthplace, city, village .. 6. Country of birth, if you were born before 1991, write USSR, if later Russian Federation, 7 Citizenship Russian Federation, Nationality at birth, if different: if born before 1991 write USSR. 8 sex, 9 marital status put a tick.
Point 10 for children only: write a new line Surname Father's name slash Russian Federation, Surname Name of the Matter slash Russian Federation. 11 we do not write anything. 12 Tick Normal passport, 13 Passport number, for children number of birth certificate, 14 Date of issue day dash month dash year. 15 Valid until day of dash month dash year. 16 Issued by the Russian Federation or if there is an FMS and number. 17. Home address, here indicate where you or your child actually live, if the address is the same as the residence address, even better, if not, then in the certificate of employment the city must match. Do not translate the street name into English or the language of the consulate, write only transliteration. 18 put a tick where not. Point 19, one of the most important, for children do not write anything)). For adults, write in English (translation) the name of your profession, for example, Manager, Director, etc. If you do not have a job, we write Freelancer, but to confirm the financial agrarny, we provide a certificate from the bank in your name and in Point 20 indicate the address of your employer. 21, put a tick Tourism. 22. Country of destination Spain, 23 country of first entry, if you fly to Spain for example through Paris and want to spend there 1-2 days then write to France (then it is desirable for you to show copies of housing in Paris), if you have a direct flight to Spain write Spain.
24. Here we indicate which visa we want to receive, put a tick opposite to the multiple entry, 25 the duration is 90. 26 Schengen visas issued in the last three years, here indicate the dates of visas from which by what number if you received earlier.
27. Fingerprints provided earlier. 28, do not write anything. 29 Estimated date of entry into the Schengen area, here we write how much is planned for the trip, day dash month dash year. 31 indicate the name of the hotel or apartment, all booked. In the next field, indicate the addresses in English and phone numbers. 32 here we write nothing. 33 We put Perhaps the most important point, we write yes)). Below For an adult, for example a husband or someone on whom a certificate from a bank is issued. We put more checkmarks) namely where: the applicant himself, cash, credit card, prepaid place (if you have armor, it is better of course that they were), prepaid transport put a tick. Next for the wife or child put a checkmark in front of the Sponsor (inviting person, company, organization), specify here. Other (specify) write for Wife HUSBAND and Surname Name, for child FATHER Surname Name. Paragraphs 34 and 35 are not completed. Point 36 is already written on the spot in the visa center. The questionnaire is ready to go further.