When applying for a Schengen visa, it is necessary to consider the following requirements for a applicant's passport:
- the validity period of the passport should not exceed 10 years;
- the passport must be valid for three months after leaving the Schengen country;
- the passport must have at least 2 empty pages.
For example, a client contacted us with a request to urgently travel to a country within the Schengen zone. However, his passport expires in 4 months.
We recommended to take into account that it will take time to search a free place to record the submission, as well as the period of consideration of the application itself will be about 2-3 weeks. Therefore, it is advised to plan the trip in advance and do not forget about the validity period of the passport.
In the case of our client, we have decided to proceed a new passport and apply for a visa only after receiving it.