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Family & FriendsVerified 9 Jun 2026Finland private visit (family & friends) Schengen visa for Indians — invitation letter, host residence proof, documents, fees and the VFS process.
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Not included in our fee: a flight reservation (from ₹708) and a confirmed hotel booking (₹590 per hotel). Book them separately, only if your visa needs them:
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Not part of our visa fee: each is bought on its own, with or without our visa service.
₹708 first traveller · +₹472 each additional traveller on the same reservation · GST included
A genuine airline reservation in each traveller's name. Issued close to your visa appointment, so it's live when you apply.
Delivery. Usually within 30 minutes during office hours, Mon–Sat 10:00–18:00 IST.
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Guide last reviewed 2026-06-09. Fees, documents and appointment rules can change.
The Finland private visit visa is a Schengen Type C short-stay visa for Indians visiting family or friends in Finland for up to 90 days in any 180-day period. The core requirement is a signed invitation letter from your host (no more than 3 months old) with their address, contact details, the dates and purpose of your stay, and proof of the host's legal residence in Finland. You submit the file in person at the Finland Visa Application Centre (VFS) after completing the Schengen form; €30,000 travel medical insurance is mandatory.
What it costs
Paid directly to Finland / VFS — these are not our service fee, and we never mark them up.
Figures per VFS Global, last verified 9 Jun 2026. Fees change without notice — the official page is final.
Family members of a Finnish citizen and applicants under Directive 2004/38/EC are exempt from the visa fee (they still pay the VFS service charge). INR fees vary with the exchange rate; all fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Flights · Hotels · Insurance · Itinerary
Finland 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 Finland
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 Finland. 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 Finland 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.
Completed, dated, signed, with photo affixed
Valid 3 months beyond departure, issued within 10 years, 2 blank pages
If issued within the last 59 months
Not older than 6 months
Valid 3 months beyond departure if not a permanent resident
Max. 3 months old; states purpose and duration of visit, relationship to inviter, host's address, email and phone, and who covers the costs
And the host's valid residence permit if not a Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic or Danish citizen
Birth or marriage certificates, notarised
Finnish 'commitment to support' form with attachments, where applicable
Min. €30,000, whole trip + entire Schengen area
Travel plan plus round-trip and onward flight reservations
Host's address or other accommodation covering the whole stay
Showing sufficient means; or proof that the host covers costs
For employed applicants
On letterhead, with position, salary, tenure and approved leave
From guardian(s) not travelling with the child
Required · optional / if applicable
6 steps from intake to approval — never as linear as government sites pretend.
Get the invitation from your host
Ask your host in Finland for a signed invitation (max. 3 months old) with their address, contact details, the dates and purpose of your stay, and who covers the costs.
Collect host residence proof
Obtain a copy of the host's passport/ID and their valid residence permit (unless they are a Nordic citizen), plus relationship proof if relatives.
Complete the form and buy insurance
Fill, date and sign the Schengen form, and buy travel medical insurance with min. €30,000 cover for the whole Schengen area.
Book the VFS appointment
Schedule an in-person appointment at the Finland Visa Application Centre.
Submit and give biometrics
Submit the file, pay the fees (host's family members of a Finnish citizen are fee-exempt), and provide biometrics.
Track and collect
Track online and collect your passport once the decision is made.
Biometrics and the visit to the visa centre are yours to attend in person — no consultancy can do those for you. How we work
What works
3 levers that flip a borderline case.
What kills cases
Top 3 refusal triggers we see.
Each link opens the official page that issues the form (we never host third-party forms) — download or fill the current version there.
We're actively building per-visa quizzes. For now, the best way to assess your eligibility for Finland Visit Visa (Family & Friends — Schengen Type C) is a 1-on-1 consultation with our team.
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Frequently asked
The estimated processing time is up to 15 working days for individuals (up to 20 working days for groups of more than 15 people). During high season or in individual cases the Embassy can extend processing to 30 days, and may request extra documents or an interview. Working days exclude weekends and Finnish/Indian public holidays. Apply well in advance — up to 6 months before travel.
Yes. Every applicant (including children) must hold travel medical insurance with minimum coverage of €30,000, valid for the full trip and the entire Schengen area (worldwide is also accepted; 'Finland only' is not). It must cover sudden illness, accident, on-site assistance, medical repatriation and repatriation in case of death. Diplomatic/official passport holders and applicants under Directive 2004/38/EC are exempt.
You can submit no earlier than 6 months before your planned departure (9 months for seafarers travelling on duty). The processing clock starts only when you submit your application and supporting documents in person at the VAC or mission.
The signed invitation must be no more than 3 months old and include the purpose and duration of the visit, your relationship to the host, and the host's address, email and phone number. It should also indicate who covers the costs, and be accompanied by a copy of the host's passport and their valid residence permit (unless the host is a Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic or Danish citizen).
Family members of a Finnish citizen, and applicants covered by Directive 2004/38/EC, are exempt from the visa fee. They must still pay the VFS service charge, and the family relationship must be proven with notarised certificates.
If your host sponsors your trip, include the Finnish commitment-to-support undertaking plus the host's financial documents. Even so, it is best to show your own bank statement and ITRs to demonstrate stability and ties to India.
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Not included in our fee: a flight reservation (from ₹708) and a confirmed hotel booking (₹590 per hotel). Book them separately, only if your visa needs them:
Not sure you qualify? Start with a refundable ₹499 possibility report — an honest Yes / Maybe / No, credited to this fee. Read the full guide
Price is for our consultancy service only and includes 18% GST. No agency can guarantee a visa — the final decision rests with the visa authority.
Your fee, in one glance
Government, VFS, insurance, ticket and hotel costs are separate and charged at cost. Read what each item means, in full.
Before you file
Filed on a guessed checklist, the government fee is gone on a refusal and the refusal follows every future application. Filed after a consultant at our licensed firm has read the papers against each other, the file answers the officer's questions before they are asked. Same Finland rules, different outcome. How we do that is written once, in full, on the method page rather than repeated here.
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Source & Disclaimer
Data on this page is sourced from the official VFS Global Finland website and Embassy of Finland. Last verified 2026-06-09. Always verify with the official embassy before applying — fees and requirements change without notice.
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