Schengen tourist Visa (VISA C)

What

Short term visa allows you to enter and stay in Slovakia for a maximum of 90 days within a six-month period subsequent to the date of the first entry. With this visa you can enter and stay for a limited period of time in any other Schengen Member State but please bear in mind that most of the time must be spent in the state that issued Visa, otherwise your visa can be cancelled by the police. Also once you enter Schengen area, be careful, you must not exceed the length of stay permitted by the visa.

More information on visa (in English): www.mzv.sk/web/en/consular_info

How

Firstly, check your passport – it must be valid for at least three months longer than the expected validity of the visa. Secondly, you have to submit your application to the consulate or embassy of that EU country where you will be entering first or residing most days of the trip. Before you do so, find and contact directly a territorially competent Slovak embassy/or consulate general for more information. You should apply for a visa as soon as possible, but not sooner than 3 months before your planned trip. Deadline for issuing the visa is 15 days from the receipt of the request. For some countries it is 10 days. This visa may be issued for one or several entries (single entry and multiple entry visas).

When you apply, you need to provide documents depending on the purpose of your stay. Likewise, you cannot obtain a Visa C at the border. Application is available at (in 5 languages): www.mzv.sk/cestovanie_a_konzularne_info/cestovne_doklady_a_viza-viza_pre_cudzincov_na_vstup_do_slovenskej_republiky

Where

Information on the Slovak embassies or consulates is available here (in Slovak):

www.mzv.sk/ministerstvo/slovenske_zastupitelstva-vsetky_zastupitelstva

Bratislava, Slovakia