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National Visa DVerified 16 Apr 2026Informational guide for Indian citizens visiting family/friends in Austria for 91–180 days with financial guarantee from the inviter.
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Please note: we do not deal with long-term residence permits for foreign countries. For Austria long-term visitor visas, we recommend applying directly via the Austrian Embassy or through a licensed Austrian immigration lawyer.
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Guide last reviewed 2026-04-16. Fees, documents and appointment rules can change.
A Visitor Visa D is provided for those who are visiting family/friend in Austria. The inviter has to provide a guarantee on behalf of the applicant for visits between 91 days and up to 6 months. Biometric enrollment at VFS is mandatory.
What it costs
Paid directly to Austria / VFS — these are not our service fee, and we never mark them up.
Figures per VFS Global, last verified 16 Apr 2026. Fees change without notice — the official page is final.
Visa D fees are significantly higher than short-stay Schengen C fees. All fees non-refundable.
Flights · Hotels · Insurance · Itinerary
Austria applies the Schengen rules, so travel insurance is not a nice-to-have — it is a legal condition of the visa.
2 of 4 are compulsory for Austria
Where people slip: Flying into one city and out of another with nothing showing how you travel between them. Officers read the whole route, and an unexplained gap reads as a plan that does not hold together.
Book for ₹708 (+₹472 per family member)Where people slip: Free-cancellation bookings are accepted, but if the entire file is free-cancellation the officer sees a trip nobody has committed to. Some of it should be real spend.
Confirmed hotel booking, ₹590 per hotel: message us firstWhere people slip: Buying cover for the adults and forgetting the children. Every traveller needs their own EUR 30,000, infants included — a real refusal we have seen on a family of four.
What a Schengen policy must showWhere people slip: Spending more nights in another Schengen country than in Austria. That gets a file rejected before it is even assessed.
The letter your itinerary attaches toWe can arrange the flight reservation, the hotel and the itinerary for your Austria file — each sold separately.
We are a B2B travel agency as well as a visa consultancy, working with partners including Riya Travel — so the flight reservation and the confirmed hotel booking both come from us, and you deal with one team. Every booking is a real one under your own name. We do not sell travel insurance: buy the policy directly from an insurer.
None of them is part of our visa fee: each is bought on its own, at the price below, with or without our visa service.
Flight reservation ₹708 (+₹472 per extra family member) · Confirmed hotel booking ₹590 per hotel · Travel itinerary ₹1,499. GST included.
Delivery. Usually within 30 minutes during office hours, Mon–Sat 10:00–18:00 IST. Confirmed hotel bookings are not bought online: message us first on WhatsApp or email info@sureshotvisa.com with the city, dates and travellers.
Tell us your dates — we will say which of these you actually need
What to gather
Having a document isn't the same as presenting it right — that's the part we handle.
English/German, signed
Purpose, duration, relationship with host, accommodation
Mandatory for all long-term applications
Detailing host's address, contact details, intended period of stay
Copy of passport / national ID / residence permit
Elektronische Verpflichtungserklärung — obtained by sponsor at competent Fremdenpolizeibehörde of sponsor's district in Austria via bmi.gv.at
Host's address from invitation is acceptable
Schengen-wide, €30,000 min, entire stay + COVID-19
Required · optional / if applicable
5 steps from intake to approval — never as linear as government sites pretend.
Austrian host creates EVE
Financial guarantee obtained at competent Fremdenpolizeibehörde.
Gather supporting docs
Invitation letter, legal residence proof, accommodation proof.
Fill National Visa (D) form + Declaration
English/German.
Book VFS appointment + biometrics
Mandatory biometric enrollment at VFS.
Embassy decision
3–8 weeks typical for long-term applications.
Biometrics and the visit to the visa centre are yours to attend in person — no consultancy can do those for you. How we work
Each link opens the official Austria page on VFS Global (we never host third-party forms): pick your visa category there and use its "Download Form" section for the current version.
We're actively building per-visa quizzes. For now, the best way to assess your eligibility for Long-Term Visitor Visa (National Visa D — 91–180 days) is a 1-on-1 consultation with our team.
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Every case here is different
There is no honest standard answer for Austria long-term visitor visa (national visa d — 91–180 days) — the route depends on who is sponsoring you, what the employer has already started, and which region is processing it. So rather than publish generic answers that may not fit your case, we would rather read your actual situation. Send us what you have: an offer letter, an email from the employer, or just the facts as they stand. A consultant at our licensed firm will tell you straight what is possible, what is not, and what it would take.
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Reviewed by Sherbir Singh Grewal, SureshotVisa — a government-licensed consultancy (Licence 849/DC/PTA/PLA/LC-3/2024). Verify us.
Source & Disclaimer
Data on this page is sourced from the official VFS Global Austria website and Embassy of Austria. Last verified 2026-04-16. Always verify with the official embassy before applying — fees and requirements change without notice.
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