Visas are barely issued in 2020, Dukagjin Pupovci tells why

The Executive Director of the Kosovo Education Centre, via a Facebook post, has said liberalisation does not seem to be close either.

Read his post.

A KASKING SERIOSIA EUROPIAN FOR VIZAW CENTURY?

It has been almost 20 years since I applied for a Schengen visa and it has never been harder to obtain visas than in the last 2-3 years. First, a couple of months to wait for an interview term. Second, when you come to the shop, they look for a tractor that requires necessary, unnecessary documents. Third, when you get your visa (if you get it), you're surprised because it's been given to you in 10 days until your previous visas are one year old.

If the EU were serious about abolishing visas, the first step would be called, “visa facilitation process”. Such agreements have been linked to all states before visa removal, and with them the conditions for obtaining visas have been eased: fewer documents, lower visa or free prices, longer-term and similar visas. As a rule, these countries have already been stripped of visas for diplomatic and official passports, which have not happened to us yet. So, as long as the EU has no trust in diplomatic and official passport carriers, then how will it trust the average citizen?

Then, if we look at the official EU statistics in the last five years, we will note that the rate of visa rejection Schengen in Kosovo is around 20%, as far as 58% is brought to the global level.

Under such conditions, even the forecast for visa removal in 2020 seems very optimistic.