🇮🇪→🇦🇹Ireland→Austria

• Visa application form (original) (see here) (signed on 3rd and 4th page as per passport signature).
• Passport (original)
• Irish Residence permit.
• Irish re-entry visa /Irish Residence permit/GNIB card, must be valid for at least three months beyond the intended departure date from the Schengen Area; C type visitor visa (see here) is not acceptable.
• Photograph (original).
• Proof of current occupation
• Employer letter (original): recent (less than 10 days old), signed, headed letter (addressed to the Embassy, name and position of the signee and confirming customer’s employment).
• Student letter (original): recent (less than 10 days old) signed Irish university/college/school letter (addressed to the Embassy and confirming customer’s enrolment)
• Self- employment letter (original): recent (less than 10 days old) signed headed letter (addressed to the Embassy and confirming customer’s self-employment) obtained from:
• customer’s accountant: when customer’s company’s accounts are done by an external/independent accountant
• Solicitor: when customer’s company was registered by a solicitor
• Bank manager: when customer’s company opened a business bank account
• Companies Registration Office: Certificate of Incorporation received upon registering business: if customer’s name is not mentioned on certificate, then additional proof demonstrating the relationship between the customer and the company should be provided
• Tax authorities
• Proof of business invitation
• Proof of funds
• Irish current account bank statements dated within the last 3 months, showing customer’s name, address and a positive closing balance dated within 1 week of the visa application submission date. The bank balance must show a sufficient amount to cover the expenses during the intended stay in the Schengen Area and for the return to Ireland or the country of origin/residence; alternatively online bank account printouts are also accepted.
• Payslips dated within the previous 3 months.
• Proof of accommodation
• Travel insurance (all-risk medical travel insurance and winter sports cover is mandatory from November to April)

Both the standard and the supporting documentation must be recent and must be provided for every Schengen visa application.

Signed passport, at least 2 blank pages for visa purposes, must be valid for at least 90 days beyond the return date of the trip to the Schengen Area must be issued within 10 years of leaving the Schengen Area.

Extended passport may still be valid, but when older than 10 years the passport is no longer acceptable; in which case the customer first needs to apply for a new passport.

Original Invitation letter from a company/business in Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein or Slovenia, or Generalverpflichtungserklärung (general declaration of business relationship) confirming the purpose of visit, travel dates and arrangements for accommodation/travel (if applicable).

Entry tickets or registration for fairs/ /conferences/seminars (only for employees, students must apply as a tourist (#tourism))

Confirmed accommodation (hotel, hostel, camping,…) booking mentioning customer’s name, travel dates and accommodation address details.

If the customer’s name is not mentioned on the accommodation reservation, then a joint travel confirmation letter, signed and dated by the person whose name is on the reservation, must also be provided along with a photocopy of that person’s passport/ID card + passport signature page, if signature is not on passport’s bio page.

When accommodation is reserved for a group, then a list with the names of the group members will also be required; alternatively, the group members their names may also be mentioned on the travel ticket.

Please check the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) website to check the latest travel advise! Most travel insurances will not cover any claims for countries with status ‘Avoid non-essential travel’ and ‘do not travel’.

Travel insurance clearly showing the customer’s name - must be valid throughout the complete territory of the Schengen Area and must cover the entire period of the customer’s intended stay in the Schengen Area; the minimum coverage for medical emergency and repatriation must be € 30.000. Insurance certificates should be purchased in Ireland.

For further information please go to the following link click here (bmeia.gv.at ↗)

• Visa application form (original) (see here) (signed on 3rd and 4th page as per passport signature).
• Passport (original) Signed passport, at least 2 blank pages for visa purposes, must be valid for at least 90 days beyond the return date of the trip to the Schengen Area and has to be issued within the last 10 years on the day of leaving the Schengen Area.
• Irish Residence permit.
• Photograph (original).
• EEA/EU and Swiss national’s passport or ID card (original to be seen).
• Proof of relation to EEA/EU and Swiss national: marriage/birth certificate (original to be seen), if not in English or German, then translation by a certified translator in Ireland of the same is required.
• Address in Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein or Slovenia.

Both the standard and the supporting documentation must be recent, (see below), and need to be provided for every Schengen visa application.

Extended passport may still be valid, but when older than 10 years the passport is no longer acceptable; in that case customer first needs to apply for a new passport.

Irish re-entry visa /Irish Residence permit/GNIB card, must be valid for at least three months beyond the intended departure date from the Schengen Area; a C type visitor visa (see here) is not acceptable.

• Visa application form (original) (see here) (signed on 3rd and 4th page as per passport signature).
• Passport (original).
• Irish Residence Permit
• Irish re-entry visa /Irish Residence permit/GNIB card, must be valid for at least three months beyond the intended departure date from the Schengen Area; a C type visitor visa (see here) is not acceptable.
• Photograph (original)
• Proof of current occupation
• Employer letter (original): recent (less than 10 days old), signed, headed letter (addressed to the Embassy, name and position of the signee and confirming customer’s employment).
• Student letter (original): recent (less than 10 days old) signed Irish university/college/school letter (addressed to the Embassy and confirming customer’s enrolment).
• Self- employment letter (original): recent (less than 10 days old) signed headed letter (addressed to the Embassy and confirming customer’s self-employment) obtained from:
• customer’s accountant: when customer’s company’s accounts are done by an external/independent accountant.
• Solicitor: when customer’s company was registered by a solicitor.
• Bank manager: when customer’s company opened a business bank account.
• Companies Registration Office: Certificate of Incorporation received upon registering business: if customer’s name is not mentioned on certificate, then additional proof demonstrating the relationship between the customer and the company should be provided.
• Tax authorities.
• Unemployed/retired
• Receiving Benefits: a letter of confirmation by the respective social welfare office thatstates that the office is aware of the intended trip.
• Not in receipt of Benefits: cover letter explaining customer’s financial status
• Housewife/husband (only applicable to married couples): customer may be sponsored by their spouse/registered partner; in which case the following needs to be provided:
• marriage certificate (original + copy): in cases where this document was issued outside the EU and is not in English or German, it should be translated by a certified translator in the Ireland and must have an Apostille.
• spouse/registered partner’s passport (original + copy).
• spouse/registered partner’s proof of occupation.
• spouse/registered partner’s proof of funds.
• spouse/registered partner’s cover letter (signed & dated) confirming sponsorship.
• Proof of funds
• Irish current account bank statements dated within the last 3 months, showing customer’s name, address and a positive closing balance dated within 1 week of the visa application submission date. The bank balance must show a sufficient amount to cover the expenses during the intended stay in the Schengen Area and for the return to Ireland or the country of origin/residence; alternatively, online bank account printouts are also accepted.
• Payslips dated within the previous 3 months.
• Proof of accommodation
• Travel insurance (all-risk medical travel insurance and winter sport cover is mandatory between November and April).

Both the standard and the supporting documentation must be recent and must be provided for every Schengen visa application.

For Minors, please click here (vfsglobal.com ↗).

Signed passport, at least 2 blank pages for visa purposes, must be valid for at least 90 days beyond the return date of the trip to the Schengen Area must be issued within 10 years of leaving the Schengen Area.

Extended passport may still be valid, but when older than 10 years the passport is no longer acceptable; in which case the customer first needs to apply for a new passport.

Accommodation provided by family/friends in Austria: customer’s hosts (written within 1 week ) cover letter (signed, dated and confirming both travel period and address of stay) ,copy of host’s passport’s bio page + host’s permit of stay in Austria(if host is non-EU citizen) and copy of registration (“Meldezettel” for Austria and for Switzerland "Wohnsitzbescheinigung").

Alternatively in cases where an “Electronic letter of guarantee“ (elektronische Verpflichtungserklärung) = EVE can be forwarded, then only the LHR-number is required (no passport copy of host).

Please check the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) website to check the latest travel advise! Most travel insurances will not cover any claims for countries with status ‘Avoid non-essential travel’ and ‘do not travel’.

The travel insurance clearly showing the customer’s name must be valid throughout the complete territory of the Schengen Area and must cover the entire period of the customer’s intended stay in the Schengen Area: T the minimum coverage for medical emergency and repatriation must be €30.000. Insurance certificates should be purchased in Ireland.