Consular Fraud Penalties for the Schengen Area

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Not only applicable to the Schengen agreement, but EU regulations and directives are in general incorporated in national law and the penalties for violations are defined there, in national law.

So to answer your question: No. There is no Schengen wide codification of the possible penalties for consular fraud or the violation of immigration law. You will have to look into national law and since laws often define a very wide range of possible consequences for a violation, you may also likely have to look into previous court rulings regarding similar cases to get an idea what to expect.

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Whenever you apply for a visa, relevant information will be added to the Schengen Visa Information System (VIS).

If you submit any fraudulent documents, this will be noted in the VIS.

Information in the VIS is shared by all Schengen countries, and consulates are meant to check the VIS while processing any application.

Data entered into the VIS is kept for 5 years.

So, even though there may be not explicit ban, you can be sure that a “visa refused due to fraud” entry into the VIS is likely to be a very large red flag, and is quite unlikely to result in a positive result.

So, in effect, you get an automatic 5-year ban.

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