Schengen visa fee will rise to 60 euros

Press release 545/2006
29 December, 2006

The new fee for the Schengen visa will be 60 euros as of 1 January 2007. The change is based on a European Union Council decision of 1 June 2006. Article 2 of the decision lists the groups exempted from the visa fee, which are the following: children under six years of age, school pupils and students, post-graduate students, certain other university trainees, as well as researchers.

Due to visa facilitation agreements between the EU and certain other countries, the previous visa fee of 35 euros will remain in force for the following countries: Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova and Albania.