European embassies in Algeria lift the Schengen visa costs

European Embassies that belong to the “Schengen” space in Algeria, intend to raise the costs of obtaining a visa to enter the region by 10%, and it will be announced in September.

Sources from the European Union in Algeria told Echorouk, that the decision to increase the “rights” to study visa applications falls within the context of the EU Council’s study of the project which has been almost approved and will be announced in September.

According to this new procedure, every “Schengen” visa applicants across the world will be asked to pay an amount worth 70 Euros, or approximately a 12,000 ZDZ, as receivables to study the “Visa” application, of course, this amount is “not compensable”, whatever the decision after examining the request for access to transit visa towards the European countries in the framework of the Schengen Space.

Algerians are considered the most claimants to obtain “Schengen visa”, as the financial value that was paid by the Algerians to get a visa to enter the territory of the European countries, according to an official source from  the European Union in Algeria, reached over 8 million Euros in 2014, i.e. the equivalent of 80 billion centimes, as the European Union in Algeria is ranked first in the Arab and Maghreb countries, and seventh globally in terms of applications for the Schengen visas, in 2014, as statistics that were provided by the Immigration Directorate and Internal Affairs of the European Commission referred to providing more than 445,000 applications, but at the same time it classified it first globally in terms of rejecting these requests.

Numbers of the files that have been rejected by some embassies reveal that are mostly reveal that the French embassy occupies the top by 45.000 files that were rejected in 2014, which represents 28% of the total deposited files, while other 12 files were rejected during the first quarter of the current year, as their owners pay a million centimes without compensation.