4 steps to getting a visa

Independently to obtain a visa to the Schengen area you can! And even need to do it independently if you craps in Europe in independent travel.

Moreover, to obtain a visa to the Schengen area itself - it's not something unimaginable adventure and strained, it is perfectly normal and expressly settled procedure, which is similar to the receipt of any other document. Importantly - act on the instructions that regulate the issuance of visas to the Schengen countries. So, how to actStep 1: Country
Determined with the country, where we will go to the embassy and we therefore go for a visa.Step 2: Documents
We need to find out what documents we need to collect to get a visa.
It was this moment causes many difficulties!
And the main secret is this: the only office that will tell you exactly what documents are needed to provide for a visa - this is an office, which you will issue this visa, the embassy there!
The only source of information about the authorization procedure and the necessary documents - it is the embassy.
From my own experience I know that our people prefer to trust in obtaining visas (and many other issues), travel agents, friends and the tabloids. Please, from now on, stop believing everything you tell us! The first thing you need to do - is to go to the website of the Embassy of the country where you go, and poizuchat section "Visa. Documents on a tourist visa. " A list of embassies and consular services of countries of Europe in Russia here
Of course, it is necessary to collect and additional information, interested in how others get visa, but all of this information is received, please critically! Check back all at the Embassy's website.
What is the purpose of the Embassy with the visa?
The purpose of issuing visas at the embassies is to make sure that you ride it there, it was with a view and it was at that time. And that you have sufficient funds to make it all secure. Build some special obstacles, if you provide all necessary and relevant embassy documents - it is absolutely not in the problems of any embassy. European embassies in our country exist to reasonably run you and us in Europe and not to on unreasonable grounds to deny us on trips to Europe! Therefore, to avoid a headache from the fear of the embassy - go right now on the site of the Embassy of your country of interest and study the requirements for a visa to the most reliable source of information on this topic.Step 3: prepare the documents to the embassy list
Usually it is a confirmed hotel, tickets, proof of income, proof of a specific amount for each day in Europe (usually 50 euros per day), insurance, photos, profile and a couple of specific documents. I specifically cite a general list, because the complete list of documents you will find on the site chosen embassy.Step 4: Interview
To do this you need to assign the date of the interview at the embassy and go there at this time. Take along all the documents on the list and go to the embassy for an interview. As you prepare for the instruction of the embassy, the difficulties should not be. Only if some force majeure: for example, yet another scandal with the issuance of visas on fake invitations, and the Embassy conducts demonstrations "cleansing". But it's not your fault is it compelling circumstances. Even in this case to you will not find fault, if you follow the instructions of the embassy.
Everything! This is the only working and ideally triggered circuit, how to get the visa yourself.
Option "to get a visa through a travel agency, we do not consider here. My goal - to tell how and what to do on their own. And you too are free to decide how you act.
Before you worry about visas and uncertainties, try to understand that he wants a European state, which it fears, exposing a particular condition, and then think about how you need a story to dispel this doubt.
Please remember that we are in Europe, we go to visit. A guest better not to go with its charter in another monastery. Your chances of getting a visa will be equal to 100% if you play by the rules of the embassy.