Most Schengen refusals are not close calls. They are a missing document, the wrong consulate, or an itinerary that does not match the money in the account. We prepare the whole application before you book an appointment, for any of the 29 Schengen countries.
These are the published rules, not our terms. We will go through how each one applies to your trip on the first call.
A refusal costs you the fee, the appointment and usually the trip. These four are the ones preparation actually prevents.
You apply to the country you will spend most time in. Where no single country is the main destination it is the one you enter first. Apply to the wrong one and it is refused on that alone, however good the rest is.
We do: work out which consulate the trip belongs to before anything is booked.
A fortnight of hotels and flights against an account that could not pay for it reads as a trip that is not going to happen as described. Consulates compare the two.
We do: make the plan and the evidence agree, and say so in the covering letter.
Cover has to be at least €30,000, valid in every Schengen state, for the whole of the trip. A policy that stops short on any of the three is not accepted.
We do: check the policy against all three requirements before you buy it.
Applications must be in at least fifteen calendar days before travel, and a consulate that wants more documents can take up to forty-five days. Late is how a correct application still misses the flight.
We do: start at the six-month mark and submit far earlier than the deadline.
The form is the easy part. What decides it is the supporting file behind it, and whether every piece of it tells the consulate the same story.
You send us the trip and the documents you already have. We tell you what is missing, prepare the rest, and check it all once more before you attend the appointment.
Nothing about a Schengen application rewards leaving it late, and one request for further documents can add a month.
The earliest you can apply. Start gathering documents here, not at the end.
Applications must be in at least fifteen calendar days before travel. We aim for far earlier.
Most decisions come within fifteen calendar days of the appointment.
Where a consulate wants further documents it can run to forty-five days. Preparation is what avoids this.
A visa issued by any one of these is normally valid across all of them. Which one you apply to still depends on your trip, and it is the first thing we work out with you.
No hourly billing, and no work begun before you have agreed a number in writing.
Twenty minutes. We go through the trip, the circumstances and anything in the history that matters, and tell you honestly how straightforward it looks.
One figure for the whole job, agreed before anything begins. It does not move because the application turned out to take longer than we thought.
We tell you exactly what to send, prepare the covering letter, the itinerary and the financial evidence, book the appointment and check the whole file once more before you attend.
Our fee is separate from the official fee. The visa fee itself is set by the authority deciding the application and is paid to them, not to us. We will tell you what it is at the first call, and we do not add anything to it.
A refused application is not an argument you get to win later. It is a trip you do not take.
OneHub LegalWe will tell you if we think it will not succeed. Some applications are weak for reasons no amount of paperwork fixes. If yours is one of them we will say so on the first call, before you have paid us anything, rather than take a fee for a form.
If yours is not here, ask. A straight answer costs you nothing.
No, and nobody honestly can. The decision belongs to the consulate. What we control is that the file in front of them is complete, consistent and in the form they expect, which is what most refusals turn on.
The one you will spend the most time in. Where no single country is the main destination, it is the one you enter first. It is the first thing we work out with you, because applying to the wrong consulate is a refusal on its own.
You can apply from six months before travel, and it must be in at least fifteen calendar days before. Most decisions come within fifteen calendar days of the appointment, and up to forty-five where the consulate asks for more. We would rather start months out than weeks.
A fixed fee for the whole job, agreed in writing before anything starts. The consulate’s own visa fee is separate and is paid to them; we do not add anything to it. We will give you both figures at the first call.
No. A previous refusal has to be addressed head on rather than hidden, and the new application has to answer the reason that was given. Bring the refusal notice to the first call and we will tell you honestly how it looks.
Usually yes, for fingerprints and a photograph. Once given, biometrics can normally be reused for 59 months, so a second application is lighter than the first.
No. Ireland and Cyprus are in the EU but outside the Schengen area, and need their own visa. If your trip includes either, tell us and we will cover both.
The dates, the countries and anything in the history that worries you. We will come back within one working day with what it involves and a fixed fee.
