2 minutes agoKosovars mostly refused visas
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)With nearly 1.6 million applications in 2017, the twelve developing European countries whose citizens needed visas to visit 26 Schengen countries in 2017 made up nearly 10 per cent of all 16.2 million applications accepted by the Schengen consulate worldwide, according to Schengen VisaInfo.com. Belarusns have [...]
Belarusns have applied 710,504 visas and Ukrainians for 694,349, though since June 11th 2017 Ukrainians carrying biometric passports have been able to travel to the Schengen Zone without visas for a period of 90 days within each 180-day period for other work purposes.
Georgia was the fourth largest source of Schengen émat apps within the first quarter before the South Caucasus country was included in the visa liberalisation programme of 23,354 Georgians applied for Schengen visas.
Of all the nationals on a global level, the Russians are applying for the largest number of Schengen's visas, 3,885,899 only in 2017. The Russians were given the largest number of visas to Schengen during the past year. A total of 3,826,151 visas have been granted to the Russians, while only 52,170, or 1.4 per cent of the apps have been rejected.
In 2017, 57,601 of the 66,171 Armenians received a Schengen visa. At the same time, 8,473 visa requirements were rejected, representing 12.8 per cent of the total.
Schengen consulates in Azerbaijan received 60,491 requests and approved 52,226; 7,942 visa requirements, or 13.1 percent of the total were rejected. Interestingly, in the South Caucasus, the Georgians had the highest rate of rejection - 18.3 percent. Within the first three months of 2017, the Georgians received 19,141 Schengen visas, and 4,263 applications were denied.
Citizens of six Western Balkan countries -- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia -- also need Schengen visas. In 2017, Kosovo, with a population of 1.8 million, had the largest number of Schengen visa requirements in the region.
The Schengen embassies located in the new European country absorbed a total of 90,475 visa applications. Kosovo citizens had the highest rate of visa denial: 19.6 per cent. At the same time, Serbs have applied for 7,238 visas, and the rate of rejection was only 2.7 per cent.
Currently, Schengen visas are required by citizens of four developing European countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Kosovo.
