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Schengen Type CVerified 12 May 2026Schengen transit visa for Indian merchant marine seafarers joining or leaving a vessel via a Norwegian port.
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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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Guide last reviewed 2026-05-12. Fees, documents and appointment rules can change.
A Norwegian seafarer's transit visa is granted for up to five days per transit and is only as strong as the vessel paperwork behind it. The port agent's letter in Norway is the document that decides it; an employer letter alone, however detailed, is refused without it. The other two failures are a CDC that is expired or about to expire, and dates on the employer letter that do not match the vessel's itinerary. Apply at least three weeks before the vessel's expected arrival, because port schedules slip and a refusal leaves no time to refile. The fee is €90 and the Embassy quotes 15 calendar days from a complete file.
What it costs
Paid directly to Norway / VFS — these are not our service fee, and we never mark them up.
Figures per VFS Global, last verified 12 May 2026. Fees change without notice — the official page is final.
Embassy fees are set in EUR by UDI — the INR charged at VFS varies with the daily exchange rate. VFS service and courier fees are fixed in INR. Family members of EU/EEA nationals, pupils/students/teachers on educational trips, and researchers are exempt from the embassy fee (the fee must be paid up front in the UDI portal and refunded at appointment). All fees are non-refundable regardless of outcome.
Flights · Hotels · Insurance · Itinerary
Norway 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 Norway
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 Norway. 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 Norway 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.
Original + photocopy
Confirms position on board, joining/disembarking port and date, vessel name and IMO number, guarantee of repatriation
Confirms vessel's arrival/departure schedule and the seafarer's expected presence
If available — strengthens the application
Required · optional / if applicable
4 steps from intake to approval — never as linear as government sites pretend.
Shipping company arranges UDI registration
Employer files the seafarer's online application at selvbetjening.udi.no, pays the fee, and prints the cover letter.
Book VFS appointment
At visa.vfsglobal.com/ind/en/nor — mark as 'Seafarers' Transit'.
Submit documents + biometrics
CDC, vessel agent letter, employer letter, flight ticket — at VFS.
Decision + passport return
Standard 15 days; expedited for vessel-schedule emergencies with documentation.
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
4 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 Seafarers' Transit Visa (Schengen Type C) is a 1-on-1 consultation with our team.
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Frequently asked
Either can register the application in the UDI portal, but in practice the shipping company / manning agent handles the online filing and pays the fee. The seafarer attends VFS for biometrics.
The visa is dates-bound. If the vessel's schedule shifts significantly, contact the Embassy / VFS to amend dates. Minor shifts within the visa validity are typically fine.
Yes — if your vessel calls at Norwegian ports multiple times during a contract, request multiple entry. The Embassy decides based on the employer's letter.
Short-term offshore workers transiting via Norwegian ports can use this route. Long-term continental shelf workers need a separate UDI residence permit (offshore worker category).
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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.
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 Norway 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 Norway website and Embassy of Norway. Last verified 2026-05-12. Always verify with the official embassy before applying — fees and requirements change without notice.
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