BNL 2 R/FI VISA

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May I know what on visa sticker BNL2 R/FI represents.

Based on the information found in Annex 22 of the visa handook:

BENELUX

Common data which may be entered when an A, B, C or D+C visa is issued:

  • BNL2
    • visa issued ex officio.

...
for the Netherlands when an A, B, C, D+C and D or multiple entry visa is issued: the alien's number;

This will be a visa issued by a responsible consulate official (BNL1: visa issued following authorisation by the central authorities ; BNL3: issued at border point ; BNL4: visa issued in the framework of representation following consultation of the represented State).

The R/FI, although it doesn't look like a number to me, according to the documentation should be 'the alien's number'.

In fact I forgot to mention you that I have applied a Finish visa Thru The Netherlands embassy who is representing Finish embassy in Pakistan.

It would seem the R/FI is based on the, now obsolete, Annex VII syntax using the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code instead of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code which should now be used in the uniform format for visas.

2016-04-12: Visa Code - Annex VII (removed 2019-06-20)
ANNEX VII
FILLING IN THE VISA STICKER
...
9. (a) Mandatory entries to be added in the ‘COMMENTS’ section

  • in the case of a visa issued on behalf of another Member State pursuant to Article 8, the following mention is added: ‘R/[Code of represented Member State]’,

...

The Code of represented Member State is the ISO alpha 2 country code used in the point 1.1 of ANNEX VII:

(b) Schengen State or Schengen States to whose territory the validity of the visa is limited (in this case the following abbreviations are used):
...
FI FINLAND.
...

Note:
Annex VII was removed from the Visa Code on the 20 June 2019:

EUR-Lex - 32019R1155 - EN - EUR-Lex
(42) Annexes VII, VIII and IX are deleted;

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