How can an Indian homemaker spouse be guaranteed a Schengen tourist visa?

2/4/2023 7:52:38 PM

I realize you are a busy professional and are accustomed to paying third parties for specialty tasks of which you are unfamiliar. However you need to be very careful when doing that with visas and immigration. A mistake made by your contractor will affect you for the rest of your life. (I.e. being forced to tick "yes" for "were you ever refused a visa?", which brings more scrutiny at every future visa application.)

As such, your concept of entrusting your visa application to a travel agency is foolhardy. They are not immigration lawyers, and they are doing the work "for free" on the side. Should a dental assistant do your job as a free extra? I think not!

I would advise either handling it yourself with great care, or having a qualified specialist do that work and only that work, for pay, and reviewing carefully everything they submit.

The fatal error in visa applications is "deception", which means putting something on the application that is wrong. Agents do this frequently when they are in a hurry to write your application and don’t know the answer to something.

Once the deception is done, there is no way to convince the authorities that it was an honest error. Because everyone says that! (Unless of course the wrong information made you look bad, e.g. that you didn’t own a house when you really did; in that case they would accept proof with an explanation of how the error occurred. But they would not call that deception, they would call that a failure to prove tourist intent).

What immigration is mainly looking for is a body of evidence that you have no reason to want to overstay your visa and effectively immigrate, rely on public funds ("the dole"), seek employment, commit crimes, run out of money and be unable to leave, etc. Being a doctor or politician, owning a house, having ample money for the journey etc. are superb qualifications since presumably you have a successful practice which demands your return. So is being the wife of such a person.

2/3/2023 4:10:40 PM

There is no guarantee. We don’t know their circumstances, we don’t know what the Schengen states have in their database about them.

  • The visa authorities will want to know the premise of the travel. This will be the same for both. Spouses traveling together is normal.
  • The visa authorities will want to know who funds the travel and why. One spouse funding the travel for both husband and wife is normal, if the spouse who is earning money is earning enough to fund the trip.
  • The visa authorities will want to be reasonably confident that both of them are tourists, and not planning to overstay.
    • Having a well-paid job at home is one factor to make a voluntary return more plausible.
    • Having no job at home is one factor to make a voluntary return less plausible.
    • A spouse having a well-paid job at home is one factor to make a return more plausible.
    • Having a spouse who stays at home is one factor to make a return more plausible.
    • Having a spouse who travels along is one factor to make a return less plausible.

Try to think about their situation. Would a visa official suspect that they would throw away their (one) job in India to stay in Europe?

2/4/2023 9:10:22 PM

It is a fairly common practice of one spouse being a dependent. No issues. They can apply together and will get the visa as same. Mention in the form or by a cover letter that the wife is a dependent. She can attach bank statement of her husband along with her. Since they are travelling together, no issues.

Also, avoid travel agents for Schengen visa and apply directly. They are likely to give wrong advice and screw up applications.

I also applied a Schengen visa for my wife, who is a dependent and got it effortlessly.

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