WILL I NEED A VISA?

If you are part of the following countries, you DO NOT require a visa to enter Schengen Area for a short stay.

  • EU/EEA/EFTA Citezen.
  • A spouse (married/civil partnership) or child of an EU/EEA/EFTA national and hold a UK visa on basis of EEA/EU or Swiss national.Note: you must travel with the EEA/EU National.

  • Holder of a Service, Official or Special Passport from Bolivia, Philippines;holder of a Service Passport from Bolivia, Chad, Colombia, 
  • Ecuador, Moldova (biometric passport), Oman (biometric passport), Philippines, Qatar (biometric passport), Thailand, Turkey;
  • holder of Special Passport from Kuwait (biometric passport), Oman (biometric passport), Qatar (biometric passport), Turkey;
  • holder of a Diplomatic Passport from Albania, Algeria, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Chad, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Gabon (biometric passport), Georgia, Ghana, India, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kuwait (biometric passport), Macedonia, Malawi, Moldova, Mongolia (biometric passport), Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Oman (biometric passport), Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar (biometric passport), Russian Federation, Serbia, South Africa, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine;
If national of those countries and not intending to remain in Schengen Area for longer than 3 months: 
Albania (bio-metric passport)  Bahamas Canada El Salvador Hong Kong (SAR passports) Macao (RAE only)
Andorra Barbados Chile Georgia (biometric passports) Israel Macedonia (biometric passports)
Antigua & Barbuda Bosnia and Herzegovina (biometric passports) Colombia Grenada Japan Malaysia
Argentina
Brazil
Costa Rica Guatemala

Kiribati

Marshall Islands
Australia Brunei Dominica Honduras Korea (Republic of) Mauritius
Mauritius Montenegro (biometric passports) Paraguay San Marino St. Kitts & Nevis Trinidad and Tobago
Mexico New Zealand Peru Serbia (bio-metric passport) Switzerland Tuvalu
Micronesia Nicaragua Saint Lucia Seychelles Taiwan (only passports that include
an ID number)
Ukraine (biometric passports)
Moldova (biometric passports) Palau Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Singapore Timor-Leste United Arab Emirates
Monaco Panama Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Uruguay
Uruguay Vanuatu Venezuela      
USA Vatican        

If you hold a British Passports/Travel Documents:

You can enter Schengen Area if you hold:

- British "European Community" passport issued in or after July 1988.
- British "Isle of Man", "Jersey" and "Guernsey and its dependencies" passport.
- Travel Documents according with the Convention of July 28, 1951 or the Convention of September 28 1954. (These Travel Documents must be valid for at least another four months at the time of entry into Germany.)
- British Subject passport.
- British Overseas Territories citizen passport.
- British Nationals Overseas (BNO) passport.
- British Protected Persons Passport.
- British Overseas Citizens Passport.

If you are National of the countries listed below YOU MUST apply for a visa: 
Note: Processing times for visa applications is 14 days

Afghanistan Kuwait Pakistan Uzbekistan
Algeria Kyrgyzstan Qatar Vietnam
Azerbaijan Lebanon Rwanda Yemen
Egypt Libya Saudi Arabia
Ethiopia Mali Somalia
Iran Mauritania Sudan
Iraq

Morocco

Syria
Jordan

Nigeria

Tajikistan (except diplomatic/service pp)
Kazakhstan (except diplomatic/service pp) North Korea Tunisia
Kenya Oman Turkmenistan

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