Greece - Visa for Russians 2015

Planning to spend a holiday under the gentle Greek sun, the inhabitants of Russia should not forget about the need to issue a visa to this beautiful Mediterranean country. On how to get a visa to Greece and what documents in 2015 you need to prepare for this Russians you can learn from our article.

Visa to Greece for Russians

Since Greece is one of the countries that signed the Schengen Agreement, the Schengen visa is also required for its visit. To apply for a visa to Greece, a Russian resident needs to apply to the embassy or consulate of that country by collecting the following package of documents for this:

1. Passports - domestic and foreign. Both these documents must be valid, and the validity of the overseas one must be longer than the time of the intended journey for a minimum of three months. In a foreign passport there must be a free place to paste a new visa - at least two blank pages. To the originals of passports you need to attach high-quality copies of all their pages. If the applicant has foreign passports that have lost validity to the package of documents, then copies thereof must be attached. If those have been lost or stolen, a certificate of this fact will be required.
2. Photographs of the applicant, made no earlier than 6 months before the filing of documents. The size of the photographs and the quality of the images on them are also clearly regulated: photos should be 35x45 mm, the applicant must be photographed on a light background. Photos should not have frames, corners, vignettes, etc. The person of the person to be photographed must occupy at least 70% of the photograph.
3. Financial documents showing the applicant's standard of living. As a guarantee of possibility for an applicant to pay for a stay in the country, both certified statements from a bank account and checks with a balance from an ATM can act. But it should be remembered that the validity of the last is only three days. In addition, not be superfluous and others documents that confirm the applicant's availability of real estate, personal vehicles, etc.
4. Applicants must submit a certificate confirming their place of work, position, salary level, and also that the employer agrees to keep the workplace for the duration of the trip. Private entrepreneurs apply to the package of documents a certificate from the tax service.
5. Nonworkers apply a certificate from the place of study or from the pension fund, a copy of the student's card or pension certificate.
6. A questionnaire for a visa filled in by hand in accordance with the sample.