Visa and Greece alone. How to get a visa to Greece? How much is the visa to Greece? How to get a visa

The Greek Republic is a Mediterranean country, comfortably located in the Balkan Peninsula. Many oldest history and mild climate causes a desire to at least once in his life to visit the Motherland of the Olympic Games. Since 1981, he has been a valid member of the European Union.

Important! Today, for the intersection of the border of Greece, the Shengen Sample Visa is needed.
This document will allow you to visit not only in this southern state, but also in any other related to the zone "Shengen".

Types of Schengen Greek Visa

From the purpose of the trip and the intended stay, the category of the requested document will depend on:

"A / B" - transit;
"FROM" - Short-term tourist. Permissive period of stay - 90 days for six months;
"D" - Long-term national. It is allowed to enter the borders of Greece for a period exceeding 3 months. The specific period is established depending on the needs of the applicant. It is drawn up only at the Embassy Consular Department after the applicant's personal visit. The applicant for this category permissions are presented by more stringent requirements.

The cost of registration of a visa to Greece - 3450 rubles + k.s.

Record for submission of documents and biometry is not required

You can arrange on our site from 0.7 € per day

Severe three conditional types of visas that will depend on the purpose of the visit

Before collecting documents, it is necessary to be clearly defined for the purpose of visiting. This will depend on the specific package of documents provided for registration of Greek entry sanctions.

Important! Before working in Greece could be on a short-term working visa. Now, official labor activity in the republic can only be carried out by having the resolution of the category "D".

Visa registration in Greece

The easiest way, get a visa category "C". National permission is issued significantly less frequently and its receipt is associated with additional time costs. Apply a petition must not earlier than a quarter before the intended trip and no later than two weeks.

Required documents - visa to Greece without presence, through visa service

Economic guarantees - Help from work (position, salary)
Financial guarantees - Reference on the balance in the bank (minimum 580 euros)
- Photo - 2 pcs. On a white background 3x4 cm. (can be done with us)
- Insurance up to 5 days inclusive - free

By visiting the consulate or service center (NTC), it is necessary to carefully prepare. And all starts with a pre-recording. It is necessary to produce it through the official resources of representative offices:

Consulate - https://e-visa.mfa.gr/elvisportal;
SVT - http://www.greecevac-ru.com;

Accepting documents, an employee puts a stamp to the applicant's passport, which indicates the country and type of the requested visa, the date of consideration of the petition and the data of the organization that adopted the application. With a positive solution to this printing, a visa blank will be pasted.

To track the status of your application, each applicant can independently on the official portal of the visa center.

Required documents, if the submission yourself

Obtaining a Schengen visa to Greece category "C" provides for the preparation of the following documents:

Profile. Filled in Latin and visits the personal painting of the applicant. Children traveling together with their parents inscribed in their passports must have their completed questionnaires;
Two color photographs. Photos are made in accordance with the requirements of ICAO. One of them is attached to the title page of the questionnaire;
Photocopy and the original Russian passport. Copy all pages that have information are necessary;
- If the actual place of residence does not coincide with the registration or applicant temporarily registered in another region, then it is necessary to provide documents explaining this situation. This can be a copy and original temporary registration, a certificate of real estate availability, confirmation of official employment, and so on;
Original and photocopy Informative pages of an overseas passport.
- In the document there should be two or more unfilled pages and become invalid, it should not earlier than three months after arrival.
- If there are stamps of the Schengen viscas obtained in old passports, then it is necessary to provide their copies, along with photocopied headpoint pages;
Financial guarantees. Such can be:
- Certificate from the employer, indicating the post and average monthly salary;
- Detailed over the past 90 days extract from the bank on the movement of funds in the account;
- Letter from the sponsor. Financial guarantors may be extremely close relatives. Additionally, it will be necessary to prepare documents certifying the personality of the sponsor and its financial consistency;
- Document confirming property ownership.
Medical insurance policy. It is necessary to draw it out in accordance with the requirements of Shengen. The coating amount should not be 45 thousand EUR;
Confirm route. This item includes tickets or reservations on them, Turpetovka or the personnel description of movement;
Auto-rooms are obliged to present a document on the registration of the vehicle, the right of the driver and the motorway.
Confirmation of accommodation. It is necessary to provide room reservation in a hotel or a housing employment contract. You can apply scripts or prints from official sites;

The above list of papers can be adjusted depending on the identity of a particular applicant.

An individual entrepreneur provides installation papers confirming the actual existence of its activities;
Students of universities and DSUs confirm their status of a student's ticket and certificate from an educational institution;
Pensioners provide a photocopy of a pension book;
Citizens without official employment must provide a bank statement;
If the applicant is on maternity leave, then this fact also needs to be confirmed by relevant certificates;
For pets, poisoning on a journey with their masters, it is necessary to place a travel document certified by the veterinarian.

Children's visa to Greece, necessary documents

For a minor before a trip to the Greek republic, you should also take care of the acquisition of a visa. The list of files required for its design looks like this:

Photocopy and original birth certificate;
Official permission on departure from one parent, if a minor rides to Greece with the second, and from both, if the child travels accompanied by third parties;
If the design procedure Permissions for the child occurs simultaneously with their parents, it is necessary to provide a copy of the "Shengen" adults along with their passport data;
- If A minor is brought up by one parent, then this nuance must be documented. This may be a certificate confirming the death of a second parent or his loss, the court order to deprive parental rights and. d.;
Profile. Fill and sight a questionnaire for a child his parents or official guardians.

Requirements for biometric photo

The photographs attached to the package must comply with clear standards prescribed in ICAO regulatory documents. Any inconsistency can lead to the fact that the applicant will receive a refusal. Requirements for the picture are following:

Size 35x45 mm.;
The background field is light, monophonic;
Within 80% of the picture area should occupy face;
There should be no glare, a clear, high resolution image;
View open, directed into the lens. There should be no sunglasses, caps, scarfs and other objects of closing face.

Biometrics, fingerprints

Over the past few years, it is possible to acquire a visa to Greece only after removing biometric parameters. Today it is daotloscopy and photographing. The procedure is carried out every five years.

Therefore, with primary petition On a visa or if after the delivery passed more than 5 years, then personal presence is required. The obtained data is stored in digitized form in a special centralized base. They can take advantage of the visa specialists of other powers of the EU, in case they will be asked for a permitting sanction of a person, at one time, surrendered biometry.

Fingerprints do not pass children up to 12 yearsThey pass only the photographing procedure. Also, persons who have such physical defects make this procedure impossible are not yet allowed.

The cost of a Greek visa for Russians

Consular fee for the design of Shengen in Greece category "C", exactly the same as for other countries of the zone, and is 35 EUR. For an accelerated procedure, you must pay 70 EUR. If the design takes place through a visa center, then it is necessary to pay for its services separately.

For a Greek visa, the amount will fluctuate around 1240 rubles. Obtaining permission can do it much more expensive, ate to instruct the design of intermediaries, and the courier service will be engaged in the delivery of documents. But the appeal to such services will significantly reduce the applicant's personal participation in the process of acquiring an inbound permission, which will save time and nerves.

There are several categories of applicants who are given a benefit for the payment of the consular duty. These include:

Minors up to 12 years;
Spouses, parents and children of citizens of Greece and other EU states;
Members of government and parliamentary delegations serving senior judicial bodies going on an official visit;
Students of higher and secondary educational institutions traveling to Greece for training and accompanying their teachers;
People with disabilities accompanying them;
Athletes and their team (coach, masseuses, etc.), departing for international competitions;
Participants in special exchange programs.

The applicant can be released from paying a consular duty that will present an undeniable evidence of the need for an urgent trip - the funeral of a relative, a visit to a seriously ill close person, urgent treatment, etc.

If the consular fee can not pay all, I will make a fee for the services of the CCTs are obliged to all without exception. Applying a petition for express design can some categories of deprive payment benefits.

Important! When receiving a refusal to a visa to Greece, the tools spent are not returned.

Dates for Russians in 2020 in Moscow

The average period of registration takes 10 working days, but depending on the specific situation and the place of filing this period can be either more or less.

So, applicants planning to submit documents in one of two capitals can expect the answer after 48 hours.
Submission of applications through the SVT will increase the deadline for the time spent on the transfer of documents.
Increase the time limit on the work of the work and the need to obtain additional information. To get permission on time, it is worth submitting documents for the month.

Validity

The legislation defines the maximum validity period of the visa category "C" in 90 days in the half year. But, as a rule, the first appeal is issued a visa for a specific journey. The basis for determining the stay will serve Turputovka, invitations, hotel reservation, etc.

When repeated circulation, it is already possible to count on a longer validity period, but this is provided that previous visits in the Schengen region cost without violation of the visa regime and conflict with the law.

Multiple visa can be issued for a period of six months to a yearBut it is no longer more than 90 days later in the territory of Greece. Active travelers who did not even be in the European Union may qualify for multivorage with a period of action up to 5 years. It is quite difficult to get a multiple visa with a large period of action. To do this, provide weighty justifications.

How to avoid refusal

Failure must be justified. An employee of the consulate is charged with the obligation to accompany the negative response with an explanatory letter. If the applicant considers the decision unreasonable, he has the right to appeal.

The most common occasions for failure are insufficient financial support, errors when filling out documents and incorrectly selected country for a visa request.

Minimize the risk of receiving a negative response, if you know a few simple rules:

A visit to a specific country Schengen zone implies a visa to its representation;
If there is a visit to several EU countries, then permission must be requested from that state in which the greatest amount of time will be carried out;
If in each country the same amount of time is carried out, then the visa of the state is necessary, the border of which will be crossed first;
In the European Union, those citizens of the Russian Federation are being passed, which per month earn at least 25 thousand rubles. If the monthly income is less, then you need a sponsorship letter;
The trip must be financially provided. The traveler must have at least 60 EUR per day. The bank account statement provided must confirm the availability of necessary funds;
The data provided in the questionnaire should not disperse with the information contained in the remaining documents. Therefore, it is necessary to take very carefully to fill the questionnaire to avoid mistakes and inaccuracies.

Need to be prepared for thatthat the Greek border guard may ask to present not only a passport with a visa, and other documents. Therefore, on the trip you need to take all the papers that were used when visa.

Where to apply for a visa

The design and issuance of visas in the Russian Federation deals with the Consulate General of Greece. They are located in the capital, St. Petersburg and Novorossiysk. You can also file a petition in one of the nineteen NTCs that are in large cities.

You can purchase permission to enter Greece by using the visa center online. Onlinevc.ru website you can find all the necessary information about the design of a visa with this resource. The process can be divided into several steps;

Register online and leave a request;
Get advice from the manager;
Transfer the necessary documents to the WCC office. They can be transferred through an email address, deliver personally or by courier;
A specialist will prepare documentation and denotes the date of visits to the consulate;
A visit to the consulate to pass biometrics (if necessary);
Get a ready visa.

Conclusion

Russians have always caused a special sympathy. Therefore, the flow of tourists from the Russian Federation to this Mediterranean country increases every year. It is a pity that an unstable international situation led to the closure of a very attractive program for a visa-free visit to some Greek territories.

It has a tourist who is in Turkey, could go to one of the seven marked islands for 15 days. Documents allowing visiting were drawn up in place. True, only some accredited tour operators had the right to do this.

But even this regrettable fact did not reduce the flow of the wishing citizens of Russia to visit Greece. On the contrary, every year the amount of visa issued visually grows. What we can conclude that people when choosing a place of rest are not focused on political conjuncture, but on their own preferences.

Muzenidis Travel Company offers services for the design of the Greek Schengen visa, as well as tourist records for the surrender of biometric data into the Greece visa center at a convenient time. Services are provided only subject to the acquisition of a full tourist package.

ATTENTION! Please note that according to the information of the Greek Consulate General from 13.02.2020 The following changes occurred:

Consulate of Greece changed visa questionnaires.
Documents for a visa may be submitted for six months (180 days) before the trip.
The minimum term of consideration of visas to Greece has not changed.
The maximum period of consideration of visas to Greece has increased to 45 days.
Changed the cost of visas for foreign citizens.

Important information!

On minor children to cross the border, the name of the state or states that the child intends to visit is obligatory. At the same time, community names, such as the "EU countries", "CIS countries", "Countries of the Schengen Agreement", "All countries of the world", etc. Not enough to cross the border.
If a trip to a foreign passport is planned to visit Greece to any other country, then when applying for visa documents, you must attach a ticket booking for this trip.
Service fee in the amount of 25 euros is not returned by the tourist in the event of a latter failure to give up the biometric data, or in the case of returning a package of documents to the visa center. The new appeal to the visa center is paid by the tourist again.
Documents of clergymen following the holy Mountain of Athos, it is desirable to apply for a visa to a minimum in 45 days before the start of the trip.
If you need additional inspections, in some cases, the Consulate General of Greece reserves the right to increase the terms of consideration of up to 45 calendar days (Article 7 of the Russia-EU agreement on the facilitation of the visa regime) without explaining the reasons.
If there is an active Schengen visa in an annulled passport (which allows you to carry out a planned trip) and if you have a new passport passport, you do not need a new visa to open a new visa. A tourist can travel according to passports, provided that the tourist name has not changed.
If the current visa in an annulled passport does not cover a completely tour, then to open a new visa, you must provide a copy of the canceled passport and the application for the cancellation of this visa. Consulate of Greece may decide, in which visa tourist will be opened in a new passport without annuling a visa in an old passport. In this case, the tourist will be able to travel with the originals of two foreign passports. (old and new)
If the tourist name has changed, then before submitting documents for a visa, it is necessary to cancel this visa in the consulate, in which this visa was obtained. After canceling this visa, you must additionally provide a copy of the cancellation form.

Territorial relations of the regions to Greece Consulates in Russia ▼

(determined according to registration, temporary registration and permanent place of work)

Documents of residents of the Murmansk region, St. Petersburg and region, Arkhangelsk region, Karelia, Pskov region, Novgorod region. Refer to the Consulate General of Greece in St. Petersburg.
Documents of residents of the Krasnodar Territory, Rostov-on-Don, North Ossetia, Stavropol Territory, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea belong to the Consulate General of Greece in Novorossiysk.
The remaining inhabitants of the Russian Federation refer to the Consulate General of Greece in Moscow. Documents of citizens living and working in the Chechen Republic, the Republic of Ingushetia and the Republic of Dagestan are accepted by the Consulate of Greece only with personal feed.

"Mobile biometric" from the company Musevidis Travel ▼

In September 2015, a new system of issuing Schengen visas (VIS) was introduced, which involves the personal presence of tourists over 12 years to provide biometric data.

To support tourists and for the convenience of obtaining a visa, Muzenidis Travel introduces a new service "Mobile biometric". The new service will be provided in cities where there is no visa centers of Greece.

Using the service "Mobile biometric" from the tour operator "Musenidis Travel", you can simply make a visa without spending time.

The service provides for additional payment. The cost can be clarified in the office of the tour operator. Cost of services Mobile biometrics is added at the reservation stage of the application in the basket of services.

IMPORTANT!

For persons who do not need biometric data, but documents to submit to a visa are necessary together with other family members, it is also necessary to additionally pay this service.
This service is provided only when group set. Biometry's passage is recorded by prior agreement with the office.
In the event that the applicant did not come to submit documents the cost of the service Mobile biometry is not refundable and must be paid to the next time the passage of mobile biometrics:

List of documents and deadlines

The requirements of Greek consulates in various cities differ in the list of documents for visa, in terms of the cost and time limits of the visa. Therefore, we ask you to carefully study the requirements for documents and prepare them in accordance with the requirements of consulates. The designs of the visas are specified without taking into account documents, if necessary. Documents for visa decoration are accepted no earlier than three months before the start of the trip.

Consulate in Moscow

The timing of the design is 4 working days from the date of delivery of biometric data.

The cost of a visa to Greece in the General Consulate of Moscow ▼

Cost of visa to Greece in the visa center in Chelyabinsk ▼

Visa cost in Greece in a visa center in Tyumen ▼

Visa centers related to the gene. Consulate of Greece in Moscow ▼

City	Address	The term of visa from the day of biometric data
Moscow	moscow, ul. Soap, d. 66	4 working days
Voronezh	voronezh, ul. Voroshilova 16.	10 business days
Yekaterinburg	yekaterinburg, Ul.Kubyysheva, d.44 (Business Hotel "Panorama" Entrance from St. Belinsky, 2T.)	7 business days
Kazan	kazan, V.Parzhskaya commune, d.8	6 business days
Nizhny Novgorod	nizhny Novgorod, ul. Shcherbakova, d.15	6 business days
Novosibirsk	novosibirsk, Ul.helylanskinsev, d.15	14 business days
Omsk	omsk, FRUNZE, D.1 / 4	10 business days
Permian	g. Perm, Ul. Chernyshevsky, D.28	7 business days
Samara	samara, Michurina St., d.78 (Millennium Program 2 Eth.of.2)	9 working days
Saratov	saratov, St ..vavova, d.38 / 114	10 business days
Ufa	g. Ufa, St .. Chernyshevsky, D.82	7 business days
Chelyabinsk	chelyabinsk, ul. Karl Marx, 38, office 204 (BC Arkim Plaza)	8 business days
Tyumen.	tyumen, ul. Sergey Ilyushin, d.10	8 business days
Smolensk	g. Smolenk, ul. Nikolaev, D.20, fl. one	7 working days (only self-submission)
Khabarovsk	g. Khabarovsk, Str.Inomin, D.22a
Vladivostok.	vladivostok, Ocean PR-KT, D.17	10 working days (only self-submission)
Irkutsk	irkutsk, ul. Sverdlova, d. 10, fl. 2.	10 working days (only self-submission)
Krasnoyarsk	krasnoyarsk, ul.Mairchaka, d.16	10 working days (only self-submission)
Kaliningrad	kaliningrad, ul. 1812, d. 126	10 working days (only self-submission)
Vologda	vologda, Prechistenskaya Embankment, 34a, 1st floor	10 working days (only self-submission)

Consulate in St. Petersburg

Cost of visa to Greece in the Consulate General of St. Petersburg ▼

Visa centers related to the gene. Consulate of Greece in St. Petersburg ▼

Consulate in Novorossiysk

Dates of registration - 5 working days from the date of delivery of biometric data.

Visa Costs in the Visa Center Greece in Mineral Waters ▼

The cost of a visa to Greece in visa centers in GG. Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Novorossiysk ▼

Visa centers related to the gene. Consulate of Greece in Novorossiysk ▼

Multiple visas

The Consulate General of Greece opens multiple visas for up to 5 years, but leaves the right to issue a multiple visa for himself!

Multiple visas are drawn up only under the condition of the presence of a previously decorated Schengen visa. In the presence of a Schengen visa in the old OZP, you need to attach a copy of the 1st page and a copy of the Schengen visas; (Originals of old passports are not accepted !!!)
The period of the visa, as well as the number of days of stay in Greece, is established by the Greek Consulate General.

Visas for people with disabilities

In all Consulates of Greece in the Russian Federation, visas for people with disabilities of the 1st and 2nd groups, as well as for the category of a disabled child open for free. The decision to issue a free visa for people with disabilities is completely dependent on the Consulate of Greece. The document package requires a certificate from the competent disability authorities.

Visa-free entry into the EU for Ukraine, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova

Citizens of Ukraine, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova, in the presence of a biometric passport, can freely cross the borders of the European Union countries without prior appeal to the consular department of the embassy to obtain a visa, regardless of the country of departure.
To find out whether the passport is biometric, it is necessary to look at the passport: if there is a presented label on its cover or on the first page with a photo, then the passport is biometric.

Independent visa design or if there is a visa tourist ▼

We notify you that visa support is provided only with 100% payment of the tour. Requested in the personal account.

The tour operator is not responsible to the agent and (or) tourist (customer of the tourist product) for non-fulfillment or improper fulfillment of obligations under the Treaty of the Tourism Product in the following cases:
1) in case of provision of unreliable information and (or) unreliable or incorrectly executed documents and (or) untimely provision of documents necessary for traveling;
2) in the case. If a visa service has not been booked by a tourist tourist for the following reasons:
a) the tourist has a valid visa of the country of the Schengen Agreement, which is suitable for all conditions of stay in Greece;
b) the tourist issues a visa independently;
c) other reasons for which the registration of a visa is not required to the client
3) in case of the action of the official organs or authorities of Russia or foreign countries that do not allow the tourist to take a journey.

We draw your attention to the following changes made to the Code of the Union on the Mode of Crossing People of Borders (Schengen Code of Borders):

- Citizens of third countries at the entrance in the territory of the EU member states should have a valid trip document, while the abroad passport of a citizen must meet the following requirements:
- his validity period should expire not earlier than three months from the expected date of departure from the territory of the EU member states;
- The document was issued less than ten years ago with the estimated date of departure from the territory of the EU member states.
- the maximum period of stay of the citizens of third countries in the territory of the Member States of the European Union (EU) is limited to a duration of no more than 90 days throughout any period of 180 days, which implies consideration of the period in 180 days preceding each day of stay;

In order not to violate this issue of the Codex of the Union about the crossing mode of the boundaries (Schengen Code of the Borders), the European Commission provides an instrument to calculate the legality of stay. You can use this tool by reference:

Responsibility for checking the visa available among the tourist carries an agent that implements the last tourist product.

Note

All copies of documents must be made and provided in A-4 format.
Documents of citizens living and working in the Chechen Republic, the Republic of Ingushetia and the Republic of Dagestan are accepted by the Consulate of Greece only with personal feed.
The list of documents for a visa submitted on our website strictly complies with the requirements of the Greek Consulate General. In case of inconsistency of the package of documents, the Muzenidis Travel has a reason to refuse to the tourist in the design of a visa and leave the right to him for personal feeding to the consulate.
In the case of previously received bounces in a visa or violations in Schengen, Muzenidis Travel has a reason to refuse to the tourist in the design of a visa and leave the right to him for personal feeding to the consulate.
Visa support is provided only at 100% payment of the tour. Requested in the personal account.
The consulate is entitled to demand additional documents from tourist, as well as invite it to a personal interview or demand to provide the original passport of the tourist after his return.
The company's visa department may require additional documents depending on the specifics of the application.
The decision to issue a visa completely depends on the Consulate of Greece.
The company is not responsible for the design of the visa, if the full package of documents is not provided in the agreed period.

Attention

Please note that in connection with the change in the Schengen Code of the borders (the decision of the EU 610/2013 of the European Parliament and the European Council of June 26, 2013), foreign passports must be issued no more than 10 years ago and are still at least 90 days from the day Return, as well as to have a minimum of 2 pure pages for visa.

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Do you need a visa to Greece for Russians in 2020?

In 2020, no changes occurred: Russians for traveling to Greece must be obtained by a Schengen visa. You can arrange it using intermediaries either yourself. In the second case, our article will help you.

Main types of Visited

To visit Greece, the Russians need to receive a visa. It can be short-term Schengen or long-term national. In any case, the appeal involves the fingerprint, digital photo.

The application for Schengen is submitted if they plan no more than 90 days in Greece or other EU countries. It may be one trip for 3 months or several. The main thing is that their total duration for half a year not exceeded the agreed 90 days and most of the first visit to the EU accounted for Greece. Most often, Russians are addressed for the "guest" or a tourist Schengen visa type C, less often for transit (type A) and others.

Schengen visa

The presence of a national visa (type D) will be allowed in Greece for more than 3 months and periodically go to other European countries. The most common causes of appealing for it are studies, work, long-term treatment, business interests.

How much is a visa to Greece in 2020?

The cost of a Greek visa depends on its type and the selected method of obtaining. First of all, this is the consular fee. Some applicants categories are released from his payment. Does a specific citizen refer to beneficiaries need to be clarified before applying.

Consular fee for obtaining Greek visas:

35 € for Schengen;
180 € for national;
90 € for national student.

Additional spending include 20 € service fee. He is paid by those who are drawn to.

All fees are paid in rubles. The specific amount is indicated on the websites of consulates, visa centers. It is periodically revised and depends on the actual exchange rate.

Important: Consular and service fees are not refunded even if it is denied the right to enter the Greek territory.

How to make a visa to Greece yourself?

You can get a Greek visa without the help of intermediaries if you contact the Greek Consulate or to one of the Global Visa Center WORLD (GVCW) visa centers. Only it from 04/26/2018 is authorized to accept documents for further transmission to their employees of Greek diplomasics.

The most expensive version of obtaining a Greek visa is to contact accredited travel agencies.

Through a visa center

Appeal to the GVCW visa center allows you to significantly save time and means. For most Russians, a visa design through the consulate, located in another city or even the region of the Russian Federation, is more expensive than 20 euros of service fee. In addition, the reception in the HC to get is much easier than in the Consulate.

To submit documents to the HC, it is recommended to pre-sign up on the GVCW website. This will allow you to quickly and conveniently submit documents. Especially relevant an electronic entry to the Ms of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg in a high season. When recording is reserved separate time for each applicant, except for the parents of children inscribed in the passport. After selecting the date and time of the visit to the Greek visa center, you must print the receipt. It will be necessary to present when visiting the HC.

To submit documents should each personally, so that the GVCW employees can remove biometric data for the VIS base. An exception is made for children under 12 years (inscribed in the parents' passport) and those who have already passed biometry for Schungn for the past 59 months. In the latter case, a formal power of attorney for submitting an application is necessary.

Especially demanding or busy clients of Greek visa centers can take advantage of the VIP-hall. This service is available so far only in Mos Moscow, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. Its cost is an additional 50-70 euros (depending on the HC) for each individual statement or 100-150 euros per family (parents + 2 children).

GVCW clients in some cities can take advantage of a personal assistant service. For 40 euros (for each applicant) or 100 euros per family, you can get priority service and maintenance of the MC specialist at all stages of submission of the application, biometric delivery.

Some visa centers offer Prime Time service that allows an additional 35-50 euros to apply for an additional time. In St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Murmansk and Petrozavodsk for 20-35 euros, you can order a "Priority Feed" service to avoid queues.

Some MCs also provide additional services:

300 rub. for filling out the questionnaire;
300 rub. for 6 photos;
300 rub. for the priority issuance of the passport;
15-20 rubles. for one photocopy.

Also, some MCs provide medical insurance services, mobile biometrics, visa to the house (departure to the client at home / office), courier passport delivery. The cost and availability of services must be specified directly to the HC.

Important: The order of additional services is released from the need to pay consular (35 €) and service (20 €) fees. Also, additional services do not affect the speed consideration by the Consulate Application and the decision-making.

Through the consulate

Application for a visa to Greece is possible after a preliminary online entry on the website of the Consulate Office. The form must be filled with Latin letters in accurately according to the passport. This registration method is suitable for everyone who needs a Schengen visa to Greece. But the candidates for the National Greek visa for recording should be made directly to the Greek Consulate General in Moscow, Novorossiysk and St. Petersburg.

The full package of documents will need to be provided to the Consulate General at the appointed time. This includes documents collected in visa centers. Unlike HC, the consulate staff does not help to fill in the questionnaires and do not provide other services.

Treatment of all applications occurs on general reasons. The consulate can invite the applicant to the interview, ask to clarify or supplement some data.

Application for a visa to Greece

Blanks questionnaire are free. They can be downloaded from the Consulate sites, the GVCW MC or get directly in these institutions.

GVCW offers to fill out an application for a Greek Schengen visa online in electronic form. After filling it, it will need to be printed to present during a visit to the VIC. After sending an electronic form, it is important to save the created identification number.

Sample fill in a questionnaire for a visa to Greece

The questionnaire is filled in Greek or English by printed letters. You can do it yourself, but it is better to entrust it for 300 rubles to employees of visa centers (for Shengen) or find an experienced consultant to fill out a form for a national visa.

On the GVCW website there is a sample of filling out a questionnaire on a Schengen visa. The questionnaire needs to be printed on 2 sheets on both sides.

A sample of filling the national Greek visa, unfortunately, is absent.

Documents for a visa to Greece: a list of 2020

And clients of visa centers, and those who turn to the consulate should provide a separate package of documents. It consists of a standard list and additional trips depending on the purpose of the trip. All visa documents need to be issued on A4 sheets.

Applicants for a visa to Greece in 2020 necessarily provide:

Questionnaire (completed, signed);
1 photo (complies with ICAO standards, cut by contour);
Greek documents on the planned place of residence (to choosing a stay of your stay / invitation from Greek Citizen / Real estate lease agreement);
Travel information (tickets / route list + documents for cars);
(Help from work or bank statement). If the applicant has a dependent (child / student / housewife) or temporarily unemployed, a sponsorship is provided (a financial document of the sponsor, confirmation of relationship with a sponsor, a copy of the first page of the sponsor passport);
Original and copies of all completed pages of the current;
Annual passport (if any) is a copy of the 1st page + Schengen visas over the past 3 years;
Copies of all completed pages of a civil passport;
Insurance policy - copy;
Receipt of payment of the consular fee;
Consent to the processing of personal data.

Collecting documents for obtaining a visa must be remembered that the consulate returns only a passport. The rest of the documents return are not subject to, so it is recommended to provide copies and originals to have at the time of applying.

Photo on a visa to Greece

Consulate General of Greece in Moscow

And it greatly facilitates the order of entry into it. Russians should receive a visa to visit Greece. You can send documents for registration of a visa at consulate, embassy or visa center.

The previous passport is in the event that Shengen visas have been affixed for the period last three years. You can also submit copies of these visas and a copy of the passport data page. Since the passport is usually invoked by the expiration, the presence of these copies is not critical in obtaining a visa.
A copy of the internal passport is all pages on which there is any mark. Personal data, information on permanent or temporary registration, data on marital status and children, as well as information on previous passports. When documents are submitted to the Consulate of St. Petersburg, the original passport also needs to be attached.
A questionnaire application, in English, with his own signing.
Two color photographs, the size of each 35 * 45 mm. One snapshot is glued to the questionnaire, the second must be attached to the documents. (On the back of the picture, the passport number is indicated).

It will be necessary where a person works. A certificate at work receives no more than 30 days before the visa appeal is planned. The certificate is drawn up on a corporate form of the company, it indicates the position, salary, as well as information about the organization - telephone and address, date of issue, printing and signature responsible person. You also need to provide a certificate from the bank. The account should be at least 50 euros for every day of your stay in Greece.
Hotel reservation in Greece.
Tickets in both directions.
Medical insurance.
Consular fee - 35 euros.

For private entrepreneurs and their employees, it will also be required to provide a copy of the certificate of SP, the owners of the IP, together with the copy, also provide a copy about tax accounting and tax payments.

Example of certificate of registration of IP

Pensioners apply a copy of the pension card and the pension book (or an extract from the retirement bank account). This is required to confirm solvency - on the bank account should be from 20,000 rubles and more. In another case, when the trip is sponsored by someone from the close, the following documents from the sponsor should be attached:

account statement;
a copy of the passport;
help from work.

Financial consistency The question is extremely important - no state wants to transport tourists to their historic homeland, as well as reimburse their costs in the host country. Therefore, you should confirm your solvency

For registration of a visa, the applicant is obliged to submit a completed visa application and a package of documents formed in accordance with the requirements of the EU Visa Code and the internal regulation of the Consulate Commission. When visiting representative offices, all applicants must pass biometrics (make a digital photo and scan the prints of all fingers). The procedure is already well debugged, all the necessary equipment is available, therefore, the removal of biometric data takes an average of no more than 10 minutes.

Visa Center

Biometrium is removed at the first appeal for the Schengen visa since the introduction of the VIS (visa information system) in Russia. Next, the procedure should be repeated only after 5 years, and access to data has consulates of all 26 countries of the Agreement. If the applicant addresses the visa of any country of the Schengen zone before the expiration of the five-year period from the time of the biometry passes, it is not necessary to repeat the procedure. This means that in this period you can handter the submission of documents to the authorized person or a close relative.

Powers to conduct a biometric procedure are endowed with exclusively representation of the states of the Agreement and the Commissioners of the MC. This is done in order to stop all the fraud with visas, for example, to prevent the intersection of Shengen's borders with tourists with other people's fake passports. In addition, the system provides complete confidentiality of personal data.

General information about the Schengen visa of a single sample (.pdf, 511kb) download

Visa cost in Greece

The cost of registration of any Schengen visa when contacting directly to the consulate is standard: 35 euros for citizens of Russia, but, for example, Belarus will have to put as much as 60 euros. The amount does not depend on the country of visiting, or on the validity period and the multiplicity of the permissive document. When contacting the WC, in addition to the consular, the service fee is made. Fees are paid in rubles directly when submitting documents.

The cost of registration of a visa in the embassy or Consulate of Greeks:

Type C - 35 €
Type D - 90 €

The cost of the visa in the visa center:

Type C - 35 €
Type D - not issued

Separate categories of applicants (children under 12 years old, disabled people, participants in various programs and other) are exempt from paying consular fees. Service fee is not charged only with children under 6 years of age.

In all Consulates of Greece in the Russian Federation, visas for people with disabilities of the 1st and 2nd groups open is free. The document package requires a certificate from the competent disability authorities.

Visa Center

Documents for a visa to Greece

The list of documents for registration of a visa to Greece directly depends on the identity of the applicant and the goals of the trip. In any case, it seems:

international passport
copies of an old passport (if there is a visas type in it)
copies of the internal passport pages
filled and subscribed by the applicant questionnaire
2 photos 35x45 mm made in accordance with ICAO standard (colored, frosted, good quality, without corners and oval, on a light homogeneous background, strictly experience)
confirmation of the goal of the trip (hotel armor, voucher, invitation, official request)
confirmation of classes (certificate from work, retirement certificate, student card and other)
financial documents (discontacts, sponsorship letters)
tickets or documents on the vehicle
polis of the media.

Children additionally seemed to be a birth certificate (in the absence of their own passport) and the power of attorney from parents (if necessary).

Check the status of the application for a Schengen visa can be referenced

Note: According to the legislation of the Russian Federation on the protection of personal data, the applicants must provide a completed and signed consent to the processing of personal data (.pdf, 137kb) download

Additional download materials:

Consistent list of documents to obtain a Schengen visa in the Russian Federation (.pdf, 296kb) download
Explanations for applicants who submit documents to the Consulate General of Greece in Moscow (.pdf, 250kb) download
Explanations for applicants submitting documents to the Consulate General of Greece in St. Petersburg (.pdf, 182kb) download
Explanation for applicants submitting documents in Novorossiysk (.pdf, 251kb) download
Application for a Schengen visa (.pdf, 282kb) download
Sample filled application for a disposable Schengen visa (.pdf, 845kb) download
Sample filled application for Schengen multivibus (.pdf, 4280kb) download
Requirements for photographs for a Schengen visa (.pdf, 461kb) download

Visa to Greece alone

Visa Information System (VIS)

In our age of high technologies, there is a clear trend towards the simplification of many processes and procedures, previously sophisticated, tedious, taking a lot of time and effort. Progress affected the procedure for the design of Schengen visas. Over the course of several years, the Agreement has developed measures designed to simplify the collection and processing of data that allow the external borders of Shengen under comprehensive control. As a result of the introduction of Vis (visa information system), all: states were able to instantly exchange information, and for Russians, the procedure for the design of the Schengen visas as accelerated and simplified.

The visa information system has been introduced since 2011, gradually covering all countries whose citizens are required to receive permits for entry into the Schengen zone. She has already successfully proven itself in Africa, Asia, Latin America. From September 14, 2015, Vis works in Russia.

What data go to Vis

Personal data Applicanta - FULL Number, passport number, citizenship, registration data, occupation, etc.
Information about the requested visa - stay, mainstream of stay, multiplicity, travel purposes, etc.
Digital biometric photo - For babies and young children, insignificant deviations are allowed in connection with the peculiarities of physiology.
Scans of all 10 fingers - Children under 12, as well as persons with the peculiarities of physiology that prevent the implementation of the procedure, are released from fingerprint scans.
Decision of a consulate regarding the design of a visa (issuance, refusal) - In the same graph, data on cancellations, reviews and extensions of previously issued visas are falling.

The result of implemented changes in visa

It simplified and accelerated the procedure for the design of the Schengen visas.
Personal information about the applicant received maximum protection.
Practically disappeared errors that had previously occurring visas.
Accelerated procedure for passing cross-border control.
Frauductural activities with travel and permits have become practically impossible.

Remember that now every Russian has the right to request information about yourself from the VIS base, and if it is incorrect, submit a petition for changing or deleting data!