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Short-Term Study / Research / Internship Visa (Schengen Type C)

Schengen short-stay visa for Indian students, researchers, or interns engaged in programmes ≤90 days in Slovenia.

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Processing time
About 15 days
after you submit

No visa is ever guaranteed — the final decision always rests with the Slovenia visa authority. We make sure your file is presented at its strongest.

Processing

15 calendar days

Stay Duration

90 days in any 180-day period

Starting Fee

€90

Apply At

10 VFS centres

Done-for-you · End-to-end filing

Your whole Slovenia Study Research Short Visa, handled for one honest price.

A strong Slovenia 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.

All-in · 18% GST included · no hidden charges

₹14,999all-in · GST incl.

File-ready in 3–5 working days after documents

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Everything below — included, nothing extra

  • Document checklist
  • Application form guidance
  • Document review
  • Cover letter
  • Purpose of travel structure
  • Financial proof review
  • Sponsor document guidance
  • Submission & appointment support
  • Post-submission guidance
Licensed consultant files it Govt/VFS fees paid direct — never marked up

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

What the ₹14,999 fee covers for a Slovenia file

  • We work out what your case actually is, before touching a form
  • We build the checklist around your profile, not a template
  • We read your documents against each other, not against a list
  • Financial proof review
  • Purpose of travel structuring
  • Cover letter / explanation support
  • Return ties review
  • Sponsor / invitation guidance
  • Application form guidance
  • Submission & appointment support
  • Biometrics guidance
  • Post-submission support

Government, VFS, insurance, ticket and hotel costs are separate and charged at cost. Read what each item means, in full.

Good to know before you apply

Rules that apply to every Slovenia visa type — worth a quick read so nothing trips up your file.

  • 1Apply at least 15 days before travel — up to 6 months ahead accepted.
  • 2Passport must be valid 3+ months beyond stay, 2 blank pages, issued within last 10 years.
  • 3Travel medical insurance €30,000 minimum, Schengen-wide, covers emergency medical expenses + repatriation.
  • 4Bank statement: minimum ~€70/day/person documented for the duration of stay.
  • 5Documents not in English must be translated by an authorised translator.
  • 6Do NOT purchase flight tickets until visa is approved — only reservations needed.

Who Can Apply

  • Indian students on short exchange programmes ≤90 days
  • Researchers on short collaborations
  • Interns on short internships ≤90 days

Not eligible under this visa:

  • Full-degree students or programmes >90 days (residence permit needed)
  • Employment-based positions

What it costs

Government & VFS fees

Paid directly to Slovenia / VFS — these are not our service fee, and we never mark them up.

ItemAmount
Adult visa (Schengen Type C) — Embassy fee€90
Children 6–12 years — Embassy fee€45
Children under 6 years — Embassy feeFREE
VFS service charge₹2,052
Courier (outside Delhi)₹432

Embassy fees set by the Slovenian Embassy in EUR; INR equivalent updated monthly by the Embassy. Fees collected in INR at VFS. Non-refundable regardless of outcome. Family members of EU/EEA/Swiss nationals are exempt. Students may qualify for fee waivers via Erasmus / bilateral programmes.

Flights · Hotels · Insurance · Itinerary

What Slovenia actually requires — and what it does not.

Slovenia 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 Slovenia

Expected

Flight reservation

The Slovenia 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 paying
Required

Hotel 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, explained
Required

Travel 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 say
Expected

Travel itinerary

A day-by-day plan matching your flights, your hotels and the country you applied to. Slovenia 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 Slovenia. That gets a file rejected before it is even assessed.

The letter your itinerary attaches to

We arrange all four for your Slovenia 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.

Academic / Research Documents

3 items
  • Certificate of admission/registration at Slovenian educational establishment OR research instituteRequired
  • Cover letter from inviting Slovenian company (for internships)
  • Indian institution enrolment certificate (if currently a student)

Core Documents

7 items
  • Schengen application form (English, signed)Required
  • Valid passport + previous passportsRequired
  • Passport-size photoRequired
  • Travel medical insurance €30,000Required
  • Return flight reservationRequired
  • Accommodation proof — student housing / hotel / host familyRequired
  • Bank statement (3 months) + ITR (2 years)Required

Required · optional / if applicable

The journey.

3 steps from intake to approval. Curved spine on the right shows the natural pace — never as linear as government sites pretend.

  1. 01

    Get Slovenian institution admission/acceptance

    Letter with programme details + duration.

  2. 02

    Fill Schengen application + submit at VFS

    visa.vfsglobal.com/ind/en/svn.

  3. 03

    Decision

    15 days standard.

What works

4 levers that flip a borderline case.

  • Apply 6-8 weeks before programme start.
  • Ask Slovenian host about Erasmus / bilateral fee waivers.
  • A Slovenia Schengen visa lets you travel to all 29 Schengen countries within the validity printed.
  • Slovenia is compact — Ljubljana, Lake Bled, Postojna Caves, Piran coast all within 2-3 hours' drive. Plan a 5-10 day trip.

What kills cases

Top 2 refusal triggers we see.

  • 1Admission letter lacks programme specifics
  • 2Insufficient subsistence funds

Download official forms

Each link opens the official Slovenia 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.

VFS application centres

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Schengen Tourist Visa Eligibility Check

Answer 10 quick questions to see your likelihood of approval. This is not a guarantee — final decision is always with the Embassy — but it flags common weak spots so you can address them before applying.

0 / 10
1

What's the primary purpose of your trip?

2

How long do you plan to stay?

3

Have you previously visited any Schengen country?

4

Have you ever been refused a Schengen (or any country's) visa?

Past refusals must be disclosed — they show up in VIS database across Schengen countries.

5

Do you have confirmed travel bookings?

Reservations are enough — don't buy tickets until visa approval.

6

What's your current employment status?

7

What's your typical 3-month bank balance?

Schengen needs ~₹700/day covered. For a 10-day trip, minimum ₹70,000 stable balance.

8

How many years of Income Tax Returns (ITR) can you show?

9

What are your strongest ties to India (return-intent)?

Embassies want evidence you'll come back — not overstay.

10

Who are you travelling with?

Indicative only — final decision is always with the Embassy.

Frequently asked

Questions, answered straight

Use Slovenia national long-term residence permit (D Visa) via Embassy + administrative unit.

No — paid work isn't permitted on Schengen Type C. Programme-related internships may be permitted.

Reviewed by Sherbir Singh Grewal, SureshotVisa — a government-licensed consultancy (Licence 849/DC/PTA/PLA/LC-3/2024). Verify us.

How we get it done

Your Slovenia Short-Term Study / Research / Internship Visa, from your first message to your passport back.

7 questions about this visa specifically. The first two are open — tap any other to read it.

Refused? Our full service fee comes back.Government and visa-centre fees are the one part nobody can refund.

+What does Slovenia want to see about my funds as a student?

That the money for tuition and living costs exists, is available to you, and came from somewhere explainable. Depending on the country that is a blocked account, a fixed deposit, a sanctioned education loan or a sponsor's income — and the sponsor's relationship to you has to be documented. The most common failure is not a small amount, it is an unexplained one: a large transfer landing shortly before the application, with no trail behind it, reads worse than a smaller balance with history.

+Do I still have to prove I will come back?

Yes, on most study routes — and it surprises people, because the whole point is a multi-year stay. The officer is asking whether the study plan is genuine and whether you intend to comply with the visa, not whether you will never emigrate lawfully later. What answers it is coherence: the course matching your academic history, the cost matching your funding, and a plan that makes sense for someone who intends to finish it.

+How long can I actually stay on a Slovenia Schengen visa?

90 days in any 180-day period. 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 entry typically. Getting this arithmetic wrong is how people end up overstaying without realising, which follows you into every future application.

+Should I apply to Slovenia or to another Schengen country?

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 Slovenia.

+How long does a Slovenia Short-Term Study / Research / Internship Visa take, start to finish?

Three things sit between today and your trip: preparing the file properly, waiting for an appointment, and the mission's own processing. Slovenia currently states 15 calendar days from when the Slovenian Embassy receives your complete application. May extend to 30–45 days if additional documents or interview are needed. 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.

+How much of what I pay for the Slovenia visa is actually your fee?

Most of it is not ours. The Slovenia government fee (currently €90) 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.

+How does SureshotVisa handle my Slovenia Short-Term Study / Research / Internship Visa, from first message to passport back?

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 (Slovenia currently states 15 calendar days from when the Slovenian Embassy receives your complete application. May extend to 30–45 days if additional documents or interview are needed.). Government and visa-centre fees (€90 for this visa) are charged at cost; our own fee is published, and if the visa is refused that fee comes back in full.

Before you file

A Slovenia Short-Term Study / Research / Internship Visa goes one of two ways.

Filed on a guessed checklist, the government fee is gone on a refusal and the refusal follows every future application. Filed after a licensed consultant has read the papers against each other, the file answers the officer's questions before they are asked. Same Slovenia 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 Slovenia website and Embassy of Slovenia. Last verified 2026-05-12. Always verify with the official embassy before applying — fees and requirements change without notice.

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