Seafarers Visa (Schengen Short-Stay, Type C)

Often not — and we will tell you so rather than file something you do not need. It depends on your nationality, the airport, whether you stay strictly airside, whether you change terminals, and whether your bags are checked through. Change of terminal or an overnight connection usually tips it into needing one. Send us your itinerary and ticket and we will read the actual routing; this is one of the few questions with a clean yes or no answer once someone looks properly.

Up to 90 days in any 180-day period (Schengen area-wide). The window rolls: on any given day the authorities count backwards 180 days and add up the days you were inside. It is not 90 days per country and it does not reset when you leave and come back. Entries are single, double, or multiple entry, as granted by the embassy. stay limited to 90 days in any 180-day period across the schengen area.. Getting this arithmetic wrong is how people end up overstaying without realising, which follows you into every future application.

You apply to the country you will spend the most nights in. If the nights are equal across several, you apply to the one you enter first. Applying to the "easier" consulate when your itinerary says otherwise is a well-known refusal ground and, if the mismatch looks deliberate, it reads as misrepresentation rather than a mistake. Send us your itinerary and we will tell you which mission is the correct one for your trip — sometimes that is not Estonia.

Three things sit between today and your trip: preparing the file properly, waiting for an appointment, and the mission's own processing. Estonia currently states Minimum 15 calendar days at the Embassy of Estonia, New Delhi (post-VFS submission). May extend to 45 calendar days for cases requiring further scrutiny. VFS forwards applications to the Embassy on the next working day; satellite centres may take 48–72 hours in transit. for the decision itself. We control the first, which is usually days. The middle depends on slot releases. The third is entirely the mission's and no consultant can shorten it — anyone telling you otherwise is selling something they cannot deliver. Tell us your travel date and we will tell you honestly whether it is realistic.

Most of it is not ours. The Estonia government fee (currently ₹9,760) goes to the mission and the visa-centre fee goes to VFS — both charged to you at cost, never marked up, and shown as separate lines on one GST invoice in the registered company name. Our service fee is the only part we set, and it is published rather than quoted case by case.

You send what you have on WhatsApp and a licensed consultant says the same working day whether the case is ready. We build the file around your profile, check every document against the others, write the cover letter to match them, and hold the file complete so the first workable appointment can be taken the moment it appears. You attend biometrics; we track the file to the decision (Estonia currently states Minimum 15 calendar days at the Embassy of Estonia, New Delhi (post-VFS submission). May extend to 45 calendar days for cases requiring further scrutiny. VFS forwards applications to the Embassy on the next working day; satellite centres may take 48–72 hours in transit.). Government and visa-centre fees (₹9,760 for this visa) are charged at cost; our own fee is published, and if the visa is refused that fee comes back in full.