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Add up the Schengen visa fee, VFS service charge, courier, photos and insurance into one editable total in rupees.
A Schengen visa cost estimator adds the statutory short-stay visa fee to every commercial charge around it — visa centre service fee, courier, photographs, travel medical insurance and card markup — and converts the lot into one rupee total. The visa fee itself comes from Article 16 of the EU Visa Code (Regulation (EC) No 810/2009): EUR 90 for applicants aged twelve and over since 11 June 2024, EUR 45 for children aged six to eleven, and nothing at all for children under six. It is built for travellers and travel desks who need the real cash outlay for a family, not just the headline fee, and it flags a service fee that breaks the Visa Code cap of half the visa fee.
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Uses the Visa Code fee bands for adults, 6-11s and under-6s.
Warns when the centre's charge exceeds half the visa fee.
Separates the sunk fees from the refundable insurance premium.
The short-stay Schengen visa fee is EUR 90 for anyone aged twelve and over, EUR 45 for children aged six to eleven, and free for children under six. Those amounts took effect on 11 June 2024 under Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1415 and are payable in local currency at the exchange rate the mission publishes, so the rupee figure moves month to month.
No. Fingerprint and photograph enrolment is covered by the visa fee and carries no extra government charge. Fingerprints are stored in the Visa Information System for 59 months, so a repeat applicant inside that window can usually skip the enrolment appointment altogether, though the visa centre may still bill its service fee.
Article 17(4) of the Visa Code says an external service provider's service fee must not exceed half of the visa fee — a maximum of EUR 45 for a standard EUR 90 applicant. Anything above that is either an optional extra such as premium lounge, courier or SMS alerts, which you can decline, or a charge worth querying at the counter.
No. The visa fee and the visa centre's service fee are charges for processing the application, not for the visa, and Article 16(1) of the Visa Code makes the fee non-refundable regardless of the outcome. An unused travel insurance policy can often be cancelled for a refund, so buy cover that is refundable if the visa is refused, and check the insurer's terms before paying.
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