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Facilitated Schengen VisaVerified 24 Apr 2026Facilitated Schengen visa for family members of EU, EEA, or Swiss citizens travelling to or joining them in the Netherlands. Visa fee is WAIVED under EU Directive 2004/38/EC. Includes Chavez-Vilchez route for parents of Dutch minor children.
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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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What you get
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Visa refused — 100% of our fee back, initiated within 7 days. Embassy and visa-centre fees are collected by the authority and are not refundable by anyone. Refund policy
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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 2026-04-24. Fees, documents and appointment rules can change.
If you are travelling to the Netherlands with or to join a family member who is an EU, EEA, or Swiss national (who is exercising free movement in a country other than the one they are a national of), you can apply for a facilitated Schengen visa under EU Directive 2004/38/EC. The visa fee is fully WAIVED, the documentation is simplified, and processing is typically faster. This category does NOT apply to family members of Dutch nationals living in the Netherlands — with specific exceptions (see below) and the Chavez-Vilchez route for parents of Dutch minor children.
What it costs
Paid directly to The Netherlands / VFS — these are not our service fee, and we never mark them up.
Figures per VFS Global, last verified 24 Apr 2026. Fees change without notice — the official page is final.
The visa fee is fully waived for qualifying applicants under EU Directive 2004/38/EC. Only the VFS service charge (₹1,855) applies. You must prove that you qualify under the directive — unqualified applications will be processed under standard Schengen rules with the full €90 fee.
Flights · Hotels · Insurance · Itinerary
The Netherlands 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 The Netherlands
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 The Netherlands. 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 The Netherlands 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.
The accelerated procedure requires fewer fields. Fill the form ONLINE to receive the unique code.
Birth certificate, marriage certificate, certificate of registered partnership, or other official document stating your name and that of the EU/EEA/Swiss citizen. Original + colour copy.
If the EU citizen resides in a country other than their own for 3+ months: residence permit OR registration in that EU state. If visiting: travel itinerary/flight booking showing their travel. A letter explaining any gaps helps.
Proof of cohabitation, joint finances, serious health-grounds care need, or financial dependency. Assessed case-by-case.
Dutch travel document or other official proof. Required only for Chavez-Vilchez applications.
Birth certificate, acknowledgement of parentage, adoption papers, foster-parent proof, or DNA test from an RVA/ILAC-accredited lab.
Extract from parental responsibility register (gezagsregister) or foreign equivalent.
If travelling with the EU citizen, also show a reservation in their name or a document showing their travel plans.
Required · optional / if applicable
7 steps from intake to approval — never as linear as government sites pretend.
Confirm eligibility under EU Directive 2004/38/EC
You must (1) be a family member of an EU/EEA/Swiss national, (2) be accompanying or joining them, and (3) the family member is travelling to or residing in an EU country OTHER than their own. Family of Dutch nationals in NL usually do NOT qualify.
Gather proof of family ties + EU free movement
Birth/marriage certificate, EU passport copy, their residence permit in another EU state OR travel itinerary showing free movement.
Complete the simplified Schengen application form
Fill ONLINE. Under EU Directive you can leave sections 19, 20, 31, 32, 33 blank; complete fields 34 and 35.
Book a VFS appointment
Note: the visa fee is WAIVED, but the ₹1,855 VFS service charge still applies.
Submit at VFS + biometrics
Submit all documents in person. Processing is typically expedited.
For Chavez-Vilchez applicants
If you are a parent of a Dutch minor living in the Netherlands (Chavez-Vilchez), use the dedicated checklist — proof of child's Dutch nationality, parental responsibility, and dependency is required.
Track + collect
15 days average, often faster. 45 days maximum.
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
12 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 Netherlands — Family Member of EU/EEA/Swiss Citizen (Facilitated Schengen Visa) is a 1-on-1 consultation with our team.
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Frequently asked
Yes. The Schengen visa fee is fully waived under EU Directive 2004/38/EC for qualifying family members of EU/EEA/Swiss citizens exercising free movement. You still pay the ₹1,855 VFS service charge.
Generally no — Dutch nationals in their own country are not exercising EU free movement. Exceptions exist (for example, under Chavez-Vilchez for parents of Dutch minor children, or when the Dutch national has recently worked/lived in another EU country).
No. The facilitation applies only if your family member holds EU/EEA/Swiss citizenship. Long-term residents who are third-country nationals don't trigger Directive 2004/38/EC.
No. You can travel to join them. The key is that they are in (or travelling to) a member state of which they are not a national.
Joint address records, shared finances, shared lease, family photos over time, long-term correspondence, cohabitation history. Dutch authorities assess this holistically.
Fee is waived, fewer application-form sections need filling, documentation is lighter, and processing is typically faster.
Yes. Under the Chavez-Vilchez ruling, parents of Dutch minor children may live in the Netherlands. A separate, dedicated checklist applies — proof of the child's Dutch nationality, your parental responsibility, and the child's dependency on you.
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A strong The Netherlands file clearly explains your travel purpose, funds, and ties to India. We structure and submit everything properly — so your case is presented clearly and professionally.
Our professional fee · GST included
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Everything below — included, nothing extra
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.
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 The Netherlands 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 The Netherlands website and Embassy of The Netherlands. Last verified 2026-04-24. Always verify with the official embassy before applying — fees and requirements change without notice.
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