Student Visa (Long-Stay, Type D — >90 days)

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.

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.

Three things sit between today and your trip: preparing the file properly, waiting for an appointment, and the mission's own processing. Switzerland currently states Usually 8–12 weeks. The Cantonal Migration Authority in Switzerland makes the underlying decision (~8–12 weeks); after authorization is granted, the Embassy issues the Type D visa within approximately 15 calendar days. 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.

Most of it is not ours. The Switzerland government fee (currently FREE) 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.

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 (Switzerland currently states Usually 8–12 weeks. The Cantonal Migration Authority in Switzerland makes the underlying decision (~8–12 weeks); after authorization is granted, the Embassy issues the Type D visa within approximately 15 calendar days.). Government and visa-centre fees (FREE for this visa) are charged at cost; our own fee is published, and if the visa is refused that fee comes back in full.