Belgium Visa Application Centers

Belgium visa

For short-term entry into Belgium (no more than 90 days within 6 months), Russian citizens must have a foreign passport and a Schengen visa type C, obtained on the basis of an invitation or a tourist voucher. The list of documents required for long-term trips to Belgium depends on the purpose of the trip.

To obtain a visa, you must contact the Belgium visa center in Moscow or St. Petersburg or the Belgian Embassy in Moscow (by appointment only by calling +7 (495) 276-25-17).

Electronic registration for filing

At the consular department of the embassy, ​​employees consider civil legal issues of visitors, and to obtain a visa they strongly recommend contacting the official Belgium Visa Center in Moscow - TLScontact.

In order to get an appointment at the Visa Center, you must first fill out a visa application on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, then register for an appointment on the website of the Visa Center in your personal account.

All the steps that need to be taken to obtain a Belgian visa are described in detail in our article.

Belgium Visa Application Center

To speed up the processing of applications for short-term visas to Belgium, the Embassy of Belgium uses the services of the commercial organization Visa Center. Its addresses: Moscow: 2nd Syromyatnichesky Lane, 1, Delta Plaza Business Center St. Petersburg: Liteiny Prospekt, 26, 2nd floor, Preobrazhensky Dvor Business Center Yekaterinburg: st. Bolshakova 70, office 601, 6th floor Novosibirsk: st. Sibirskaya 57, entrance from the street. Sovetskaya Rostov-on-Don: st. Suvorova, 91, BC "League of Nations"

Single telephone number for all branches, Mon - Fri 09:00-12:30 and 13:30-17:00

Opening hours: Reception of documents: Mon - Fri 9:00-17:00. Issuance of passports: Mon - Fri 9:00-16:00. Website: https://be.tlscontact.com/ru/splash.php If you live in other cities, visa documents can be sent by courier service (paid separately). Service fee for visa center services is RUB 1,850. for Moscow and St. Petersburg and 2,070 rubles. for other cities. The visa center also provides additional services for a fee. The visa center provides services to citizens of Russia, as well as Belarus, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.

List of basic documents required for obtaining entry visas to Belgium

:

• visa application form filled out online on the portal https://visaonweb.diplomatie.be/ (Form for reference can be downloaded from the Embassy website, DOC in French);
• Foreign passport (validity must be at least 3 months after the expiration of the requested visa and with 2 blank sheets on both sides) and a copy of the first page;
• Medical insurance with coverage of at least €30,000, valid in the Schengen countries and covering possible medical expenses and repatriation; You can buy an insurance policy online!
• Certificate from the place of employment indicating the position, salary, period of leave provided with job protection. For students: certificate from the educational institution;
• Copies of previous Schengen visas or old passports with them.

Additional requirements for obtaining a tourist, business visa to Belgium or by private invitation.
Tourist trip:

• Indication of the travel route with hotel reservations along the entire route;
• Proof of personal financial creditworthiness for the duration of the trip in the amount of at least €38 per day (bank statement and/or tax certificates of income, or certificate of purchase of foreign currency);
• Confirmation of round trip ticket booking.

Business invitation:

• An invitation from a Belgian company indicating the purposes and dates of the trip, certified by the signature of the inviting person. For participation in exhibitions or conferences - confirmation of registration;
• Guarantees of payment of expenses (in an invitation from the inviting organization or in a certificate from the place of work from the sending organization);

Private invitation:

• An invitation letter from the inviter indicating the nature of your relationship, as well as the purpose of the trip to Belgium. When invited from relatives - documentary evidence of relationship (birth certificate, marriage certificate, etc.);
• Proof of the financial creditworthiness of the invitee for the period of the trip and the commitment to support in form 3 bis (required on 2 sides of 1 sheet, original and copy), signed by the inviter in Belgium (The commitment to support form can be obtained from the commune at the place of residence in Belgium The obligation to take maintenance must be submitted in the original and accompanied by the following documents: 1) Certificate of salary for the last three months or a document issued by a government agency certifying monthly or annual income, net or gross, (certificate of pension, extract from tax register); 2) A document confirming the Belgian citizenship of the guarantor, or, if it is a foreigner, a document giving the right to unlimited stay in Belgium);
• A copy of the inviting person’s passport/residence permit;
• Confirmation of round trip ticket booking.

For a transit trip through Belgium to a non-Schengen country, Russian citizens must obtain a short-term visa type C. If the transit trip does not require leaving the international area of ​​the airport, Russian citizens do not need to apply for an airport transit visa.
To obtain a transit visa to Belgium

Type C you must provide the following documents:

• 1 completed application form in English, French, Dutch or German and 2 recently taken color photographs 5 x 5 cm (Belgium visa application form .DOC file 134 Kb from the embassy website, .PDF file 184 Kb from the visa center website);
• Foreign passport (validity must be at least 3 months after the expiration of the requested visa and with 2 blank sheets on both sides) and a copy of the first page;
• Valid visa for the country of destination;
• Confirmation of round trip ticket booking.

Deadline for submitting documents: 18 working days before the start of the trip. The visa processing time at the Belgian Embassy is 7 days. However, in the case of a first trip to Belgium or, especially, to Schengen, the verification period may take up to 3 months.

Belgium

Diplomatic relations between the USSR and the Kingdom of Belgium were established on July 12, 1935.

After the invasion of fascist German troops in Belgium and in connection with the note of the German Foreign Ministry dated June 29, 1940 on the liquidation of diplomatic missions in countries occupied by Germany by July 15, the USSR mission in Brussels was closed.

On August 7, 1941, an agreement was reached between the Soviet government and the Belgian government located in London to exchange diplomatic missions, which were converted into embassies in early 1943.

The consent of the Soviet side to the opening of a general consulate of Belgium in Leningrad, recorded in the Protocol between the Government of the USSR and the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium on the establishment of consulates (clause 2), signed in Brussels on October 4, 1976, was not implemented.

On October 28, 1994, in response to a note from the Belgian Embassy in Moscow dated September 12, 1994, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation announced the consent of the Russian side to open a branch of the Belgian Embassy in St. Petersburg, which operated for two years.

The issue of the Belgian consulate in St. Petersburg was reopened in 2007. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation sent a note to the Belgian Embassy in Moscow on January 28, 2008 regarding the consent of the Government of the Russian Federation to the establishment of a Consulate General of Belgium in St. Petersburg.

The Consulate General is located in Saperny Lane, building No. 11, lit. A.

This lane (formerly Grafsky Lane) is located in one of the oldest parts of the city - the Liteiny part, which took its name from the Liteiny Dvor that existed in this area, founded by order of Peter I in 1711.

On the site of the current Saperny Lane there used to be barracks and training grounds. The Sapper Life Guards Battalion, which was formed in 1812 from officers and lower ranks of engineering troops who distinguished themselves in the Patriotic War of 1812, was stationed here for a long time. The name of Saperny Lane comes from this military unit.

In the first half of the 19th century, there were mainly wooden buildings on this site. On the site where house No. 11 is now located, there was a one-story house with a mezzanine, which belonged to the heirs of the titular councilor Ya.Ya. Kononov. In 1859, the merchant P.S. Stepanov acquired the plot, and at his request, architects A.A. Kulakov and E.G. Yurgens designed a courtyard stone three-story residential outbuilding. Then, in 1861, according to the project of A.I. Dolotov, who had the right to erect civil buildings, the stables that existed at the house were converted into living quarters.

In 1886, the plot was acquired by merchant A.F. Lobek. According to the project submitted to the St. Petersburg City Government in the same year, prepared by the architect I.V. Wolf, the construction of a two-story stone residential building was approved. A.F. Lobek owned this house until 1917.

In 1970-1971, the house was completely renovated while maintaining its façade. The converted premises of the house once housed the consulates of Iran and then Mongolia.

In 2008, the building was provided to the Consulate General of Belgium. It underwent renovations over the course of two years, ending in February 2010. The official opening of the Consulate General, which was attended by the Secretary General of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dier Achten, took place on May 5, 2010.

From November 28, 2021, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Belgium in St. Petersburg is located at: 191186, St. Petersburg, emb. Moika River, 42, lit. A, office 38-N.

Belgium visas for minors

• Minors must provide a copy of their birth certificate.
• For children included in the parent/guardian's passport, a separate visa form must be provided, completed by the parent/guardian. The parent/guardian's passport must have an additional 2 blank sheets on both sides for each child.
• For minors traveling without parents or with one parent, it is necessary to provide a notarized parental consent for the child to travel abroad, certified with an apostille stamp (original and copy). If a child is traveling accompanied by one of the parents, and the parents are married, it is sufficient to provide a copy of the personal data page and a copy of the marital status page of the internal passport of the parent who is accompanying the child.

Entry rules to Belgium

When crossing the Belgian border you must provide:

• A foreign passport valid for 3 months after the end of the trip.
• Return air tickets or their reservation.
• Hotel reservation (hotel, apartment, hostel) or tourist voucher.
• Confirmation of financial solvency: cash, bank cards.
• Medical insurance.

Crossing the border with children

• The child’s own foreign passport is valid for 3 months after the end of the trip. Crossing the border with a child based on the entry about him in the parent’s passport is not allowed.
• Original or copy of birth certificate with an insert or stamp indicating Russian citizenship (children under 14 years old).

Importing things across the border

When passing through customs, the following goods must be declared:

• Intended not for personal use (for commercial purposes).
• Purchased outside the European Union and exceeding the maximum quantity not subject to customs duties (in the amount of more than 430 euros per person).
• The import of which is prohibited or limited (alcohol, tobacco, food).
• Cash in the amount of 10,000 euros or more.
• Plants, plant products, wood, planting material, soil and compost imported from non-EU countries are subject to inspection by the plant protection service.

Further information on customs requirements can be found in the bulletin of the Belgian Ministry of Finance.

Schengen Area

Belgium is part of the Schengen zone and, upon receipt of a Belgian visa, you can freely visit all 26 countries that have signed the agreement. But when planning such a trip, you must take into account that you must apply for a visa at the embassy of the country that is the main purpose of the trip. If the trip covers several countries and it is impossible to determine the main one, then you must obtain a visa from the country that is the first on the route. When entering the Schengen zone, Russians will be required to present a passport and visa. In addition, they must be prepared to present a document providing the basis for the trip (invitation/booking), medical insurance, and also prove that they have sufficient financial means to stay in the country of the return trip. Additional information about Schengen visas.

List of countries participating in the Schengen Agreement:

• Austria
• Belgium
• Hungary
• Germany
• Holland
• Greece
• Denmark
• Iceland
• Spain
• Italy
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Finland
• France
• Czech
• Switzerland
• Sweden
• Estonia

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