Is visa type "D" considered Schengen?

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It's a bit ambiguous, “D visa“ is Schengen terminology for a long-stay visa but those are in fact national visas, issued under a different set of rules separate from the rules controlling the Schengen system.

All this is however quite theoretical, in practice there is no harm in answering “yes“. It's always best to ensure you do not appear to be hiding information and an earlier long-stay visa is more likely to help your application than anything else.

However, you should not assume you will not have to enroll your biometrics again. At the moment, the VIS, the system used by Schengen countries to store these data does not cover long-stay visas (in fact there are plans to allow that) so the data you submitted in 2017 might not be reusable. It certainly would not be for any other country than Denmark.

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Yes, type D Schengen visa is a Schengen visa. You should answer "Yes".

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