Thanks.

Also, if you would advise them during the interview of your travel plans I’m sure they’ll help you out.

Thanks a ton for the information provided in this blog. We are in the midst of similar woes for Schengen visa to be issued by the Portugal Embassy in New Delhi. Myself and my wife had applied for the visa on 22 Feb 2016 and our travel date is on 17 March 2016. My wife has been asked to come for an in-person interview at the Portugal embassy in New Delhi on 10 March. Since I have had travelled to Schengen earlier, I haven’t been asked to come for the interview. But, we both are really curious whether we will get the visa by the dates we are traveling or not. There is hardly a gap of 1 week between her visa interview and our travel date. Any idea how long the embassy takes to process the visa ?

We have submitted all documents required by the Embassy.

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Chinmaya

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Emon Hasan

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Emon

I can imagine, had similar experiences before..pheww !! Good to know that you got your visa in time.
How do you plan your longer/extended trips, for instance a longer trip through europe, now a days they provide us Indians with limited travel days on visa according to the air-ticket/stay bookings , suppose one plans for 2-3 month trip throughout europe backpacking and exploring as the trip goes on (not booking all the stay in advance and would want to book your return at some point later during the trip), is it possible to get a 2 or 3 month or even a 6 month multi-entry schegen visa for Indians? have you faced anything like that or any tips on that ? I think you did get some of your visas in foreign land for your extended trips , especially south america? was it easy holding an Indian passport to do so? any other experiences in other parts of the world?

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Enjoy reading your experiences ! :)
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Nik

Well, congratulations on getting your visa! :)

Is your flight from Milan to Porto a domestic flight ? Since it’s a European flight it may be internal. Your best bet is to ask the embassy or the airline. That’s really the only way to know for sure.

Personally, I think it should be fine since your destination is a European one but maybe your first entry needs to be stamped in before you move around anywhere within the Schengen region. (i.e. once you arrive in Portugal you can visit Spain since the borders are open, but maybe your first entry needs to be in Portugal) But please don’t take this as advice as I really don’t know anything about your visa.

Call the airline and see what they say. Otherwise you might have to switch flights. Let me know how it goes! Good luck!!

Finally I have got my visa for 120 days today. Since morning i was trying to talk embassy people and VFS but no one was receiving phone and even receive not ready to talk, finally one person talked but he said “plz call VFS” and he cut the phone. Then, at 4pm i decided not to call anymore to Embassy, and writting travel agency to cancel my flight ticket and suddenly a wonder happen and I got call from one ma’am from University she told me to go Embassy and collect my passport coz she had talked with Embassy in India to Issue me VISA soon possible. and just after that these people from Embassy called me and said my Visa is ready and i can collect it before 5pm.

Hey now i got my VISA but it is not Schengen it is written valid for Portugal, But my flight on Monday is from Delhi to Milan and Milan to Porto. so I am wondering if there will be problem because on My Visa it is not written Schengen……?

Thanks to you

Jitu.