Schengen Short-Stay (Type C) — Carrier / Transport Crew (Informational) Verified 2026-04-30Carrier Visa (Transport Crew)
Hungary Carrier Visa (Schengen Type C) for transport-company crew members. Initiated by the carrier firm — typically airlines, shipping companies, or maritime operators. Informational only.
- Processing time
- About 15 days
- after you submit
No visa is ever guaranteed — the final decision always rests with the Hungary visa authority. We make sure your file is presented at its strongest.
Hungarian work and residence categories (Employment, Gainful Activity, Intra-Corporate Transfer, EU Blue Card, Hungarian Card, Seasonal Employment, Long-Term Mobility, Guest Self-Employment, Traineeship) require a Hungarian-side employer or sponsor to first secure approval from the Hungarian National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing — the labour-demand and employer-accreditation steps happen entirely inside Hungary. Indian travel-visa consultancies cannot substitute for that process. SureshotVisa specialises in Hungary's short-stay (Type C) visas plus long-term D visas for Study, Family Reunification, Research, Medical Treatment, Official, and Voluntary Service — all of which we file end-to-end through VFS. For work / employment categories, please consult a licensed Hungarian immigration lawyer or have your Hungarian employer initiate the process directly.
Hungary — Full Schengen member · Two India jurisdictions
One Hungary visa = all 29 Schengen countries. But the right Indian jurisdiction is non-negotiable.
Hungary processes Indian applications through TWO offices: the Embassy in New Delhi for north India, and the Consulate General in Mumbai for south & west (Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Cochin, Pune, Goa, Puducherry, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad). Submit to the wrong one and your file is returned without a decision. All applications go via VFS Joint Visa Application Centre.
29 Schengen countries
Full Schengen member — Hungary visa unlocks the whole zone during validity, not just Hungary.
15 calendar days
Minimum processing. Apply at least 15 days before travel; max six months in advance.
VFS Joint Centre
All submissions via VFS — biometrics required on long-term D visas (₹1,920 extra service fee).
Which office decides your Hungary visa?
Embassy New Delhi
North India — Delhi NCR, Punjab, Haryana, HP, J&K, UP, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, MP, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Odisha, the Northeast, Bhutan, Nepal.
Consulate Mumbai
South & west — Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Sri Lanka.
Photo size note: Hungary needs passport-size 35–40mm wide, white background — slightly different from the typical 35×45mm Schengen photo. Use a Hungary-spec photo to avoid rejection.
Note: SureshotVisa handles Hungary Tourist, Business, Conference, Cultural & Sports, Educational Training, Medical, Family-of-EU-Citizen, Visiting Family/Friends, Airport Transit short-stay visas — plus long-term D visas for Study, Family Reunification, Research, Official, Medical, Voluntary Service. Work / employment / EU Blue Card / Hungarian Card / Intra-Corporate Transfer / Seasonal / Guest Self-Employment pages are informational only — those need a Hungarian-side employer or licensed Hungarian immigration lawyer.
Processing
15 calendar days standard processing at…
Stay Duration
Transit-tied
Starting Fee
₹9,600
Apply At
13 VFS centres
Good to know before you apply
Rules that apply to every Hungary visa type — worth a quick read so nothing trips up your file.
- 1Hungary processes Indian applications through TWO offices: Embassy of Hungary, New Delhi (north India) and Consulate General of Hungary, Mumbai (south & west: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Sri Lanka). Applying at the wrong jurisdiction means your file gets returned without decision.
- 2All applications submit through VFS Joint Visa Application Centre — biometrics are mandatory on long-term D applications (₹1,920 separate service charge).
- 3Photo specification: 35–40mm wide passport-size, color, white background, no head-dress (except religious), no glasses reflection — slightly different from the typical 35×45mm Schengen photo.
- 4Apply at least 15 calendar days before travel; max 6 months before. Files with less than 15 days' lead may be returned without decision.
- 5Travel medical insurance must be from a Hungary-Embassy-approved Indian insurer with €30,000 minimum coverage and Schengen-wide validity (accident + illness + medical emergency + repatriation).
- 6Passport must be valid at least 3 months beyond intended stay (D visas need ≥18 months), have at least 2 blank pages, and have been issued within the previous 10 years. Handwritten passports issued after 1 April 2010 are NOT accepted; passports with manual corrections in the bio-data page are NOT accepted.
- 7ALL documents marked with (*) must be in ORIGINAL — photocopies are not enough.
- 8Sri Lanka nationals must apply at the German Embassy Colombo (which issues Hungary visas on Hungary's behalf), not at India centres.
- 9The mere possession of a Hungary visa does NOT confer automatic right of entry — the Schengen Border Officer at first point of entry can still refuse admission if doubts arise about the visit's purpose.
Who Can Apply
- Airline / shipping / maritime crew members on contract with the carrier firm
Not eligible under this visa:
- Crew members travelling outside scope of their carrier role — apply for appropriate Type C category
What it costs
Government & VFS fees
Paid directly to Hungary / VFS — these are not our service fee, and we never mark them up.
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Schengen Short-Stay visa fee — adult (Type C, 1–90 days) | ₹9,600 |
| Schengen visa fee — child (6–12 years) | ₹4,800 |
| Schengen visa fee — child below 6 years | ₹0 |
| VFS service fee — with biometrics | ₹2,133 |
| VFS service fee — without biometrics | ₹1,600 |
| Optional courier (mandatory in south & west) | ₹675 |
Visa fees are set by the Embassy of Hungary in INR and are non-refundable regardless of outcome. Children under 6 are visa-fee-exempt; school pupils, students, postgraduates, researchers attending scientific events, family members of EU/EEA citizens, and accompanying teachers may also be visa-fee-exempt — confirm at submission. Diplomatic and service passport holders are exempt from the visa fee. Long-term D visas carry a separate ₹1,920 biometrics service charge on top of the visa fee.
Flights · Hotels · Insurance · Itinerary
What Hungary actually requires — and what it does not.
Hungary 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 Hungary
Flight reservation
The Hungary consulate wants a return itinerary with a real PNR covering your exact dates. It does not want a paid ticket, and buying one before a decision puts your money at risk for nothing.
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.
How to hold a flight without payingHotel booking
Accommodation for EVERY night of the stay. Not most nights — every one. A gap is a documented refusal ground under the Schengen code.
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.
Refundable hotel booking, explainedTravel insurance
Minimum EUR 30,000 medical cover, valid in every Schengen state, including repatriation and emergency medical evacuation, for the full period of stay. Regulation (EC) 810/2009 — this is law, not preference.
Where 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 the cover must actually sayTravel itinerary
A day-by-day plan matching your flights, your hotels and the country you applied to. Hungary must be your main destination or your first point of entry, or you are at the wrong consulate.
Where people slip: Spending more nights in another Schengen country than in Hungary. That gets a file rejected before it is even assessed.
The letter your itinerary attaches toWe arrange all four for your Hungary file.
We are a B2B travel agency as well as a visa consultancy, working with partners including Riya Travel — so the flight, the hotel and the policy all come from us, issued the same day, and you deal with one team instead of four. Every booking is a real one under your own name.
What to gather
Documents required
Having a document isn't the same as presenting it right — that's the part we handle.
Carrier-Specific Documents (informational reference)
6 items- Letter of certification or request from the carrier firm — signed and sealedRequired
- Salary slip last 3 months from carrier employerRequired
- Certificate of registration of the carrier firm (if self-employed scenarios)
- Bank statement of last 3 monthsRequired
- Travel itinerary + return flight reservationRequired
- €30,000 Schengen-approved travel medical insuranceRequired
Required · optional / if applicable
The journey.
2 steps from intake to approval. Curved spine on the right shows the natural pace — never as linear as government sites pretend.
- 01
Carrier firm initiates the certification letter
Done by the airline / shipping / maritime employer's authorized person.
- 02
Crew member applies via VFS at correct India jurisdiction
Submission and biometrics at VFS.
Download official forms
Each link opens the official Hungary 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.
Hungary Schengen Visa Application Form (Short-Stay, Type C)
Fill online via VFS Hungary, then download, print, and sign. Separate forms exist for Mumbai/west zone and the rest.
Hungary Long-Term Residence Permit Application + Appendix
For D visa categories. Each sub-category has its own appendix (9.6 Employment, 9.13 Study, 9.23 Family Reunification, etc.). Source: National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing of Hungary.
Schengen-approved Indian Insurance Companies (Hungary-accepted)
Travel medical insurance must be from this approved Indian-insurer list — €30,000 minimum coverage.
VFS application centres
Quiz not yet available for this visa type
We're actively building per-visa quizzes. For now, the best way to assess your eligibility for Carrier Visa (Transport Crew) is a 1-on-1 consultation with our team.
Every case here is different
Tell us your situation and we will tell you what can be done.
There is no honest standard answer for Hungary carrier visa (transport crew) — 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 licensed consultant will tell you straight what is possible, what is not, and what it would take.
Reviewed by Sherbir Singh Grewal, SureshotVisa — a government-licensed consultancy (Licence 849/DC/PTA/PLA/LC-3/2024). Verify us.
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View guideSource & Disclaimer
Data on this page is sourced from the official VFS Global Hungary website and Embassy of Hungary. Last verified 2026-04-30. Always verify with the official embassy before applying — fees and requirements change without notice.
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