Visa Approvals

This tool lets you see visa approval rates for different countries.

Application country

Statistics describe where applications were submitted, not applicants’ nationality.

Issuance rate: 93.5%
Applications: 679,425
Uniform visas issued: 618,806
Multiple-entry issued: 175,862
Not issued: 42,953

Visa statistics by destination for applications submitted in Russia

Austria	88.9%	4,959	4,216	731	17.3%	526
Belgium	94.0%	1,753	1,575	951	60.4%	100
Bulgaria	96.6%	27,423	26,006	13,942	53.6%	925
Croatia	92.8%	1,694	1,376	1,011	73.5%	107
Cyprus *	98.5%	42,005	41,377	11,005	26.6%	628
Czech Republic	89.1%	175	155	78	50.3%	19
Estonia	81.8%	2,363	1,934	1,188	61.4%	429
Finland	92.1%	4,148	3,369	2,391	71.0%	288
France	96.5%	167,549	156,547	21,935	14.0%	5,634
Germany	95.3%	24,690	20,036	1,004	5.0%	987
Greece	88.8%	67,579	59,020	24,525	41.6%	7,480
Hungary	93.0%	28,540	26,292	7,757	29.5%	1,972
Italy	94.5%	170,511	161,121	80,760	50.1%	9,390
Latvia	94.5%	1,126	1,062	418	39.4%	62
Lithuania	90.2%	1,796	1,467	1,080	73.6%	160
Luxembourg	96.4%	1,048	732	695	94.9%	27
Malta	80.0%	879	702	101	14.4%	175
Netherlands	99.1%	11,959	11,637	8,158	70.1%	109
Norway	96.3%	81	78	46	59.0%	3
Poland	100.0%	103	103	40	38.8%	0
Portugal	90.3%	6,966	6,289	508	8.1%	677
Romania	87.8%	208	180	65	36.1%	25
Slovakia	95.9%	1,203	1,149	530	46.1%	49
Slovenia	94.6%	1,607	1,254	110	8.8%	71
Spain	90.7%	139,596	123,359	2,034	1.6%	12,701
Sweden	95.3%	91	82	45	54.9%	4
Switzerland	89.8%	11,378	9,065	5,759	63.5%	1,033

How to read these statistics

* Cyprus figures are national short-stay visas from the workbook’s separate Cyprus sheet, not Schengen visas. They are shown for comparison and excluded from the overall Schengen totals and rate.

Issuance rate = uniform visas issued ÷ (uniform visas issued + not issued). Limited-territorial-validity (LTV) and airport transit visas are excluded. Multiple-entry % = multiple-entry issued ÷ uniform visas issued; it is the share of issued visas, not applications. For Cyprus, the denominator is national short-stay visas issued. No issued visas is shown as —. Multiple-entry issued counts are a subset of uniform visas issued, not additional visas. Applications and outcomes may differ because of reporting periods. This is a historical aggregate, not your personal chance of approval; small samples can be misleading.

Apply to the country responsible for your actual itinerary, not simply the country with the highest rate. Official application guidance

Source: European Commission — 2025 consular statistics