DOC CITY doccity.netWhatsApp +90 555 575 0001DOC CITYMOSCOW · ISTANBULThe appeal period starts the day the decision is notified to you, and the deadline, the authority and the procedure DIFFER BY COUNTRY. That is why we do not print a number of days here: the correct one is written on your own decision. The Visa Code obliges every member state to state it there. Miss it and the right to appeal lapses; only a fresh application remains.
Three things to do today
Find the refusal form and note the DATE OF NOTIFICATION — the clock starts there.
Write down which boxes are ticked; there may be more than one.
Keep the entire old file: both an appeal and a new application are built on it.
A Schengen refusal comes on a standard form: eleven grounds, numbered boxes. Whichever box is ticked on your paper decides what has to be done next.
Listing eleven grounds gives you a table; separating them gives you a decision. Whichever family yours belongs to is the road you take.
This is the good news. Something was absent or fell short; once completed, a second application goes in strong.
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Get help with this reasonThe documents were there, but the consulate was not convinced by the account. What is needed is not another paper but consistency.
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Get help with this reasonA different road is required. These are not solved with one document; the source of the obstacle has to be identified first.
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Get help with this reasonThis ground is used when you asked for the visa to be revoked.
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Get help with this reasonVisa Code Article 32(3): there is a right to appeal against a refusal, and the decision must state to which authority, by which procedure and within what time limit. The only exception is ground 11: if you asked for the revocation yourself, no appeal arises.
Residence permit, work permit and university admission refusals follow other procedures and have no single standard form. Let us read your decision together — there too the deadline is on the paper.
Source
Visa Code (EC) No 810/2009, Annex VI — standard form for notifying refusal, annulment or revocation. The eleven grounds come from that form.
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