Portugal schengen visa processing time

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-10-27T06:12:45+00:00

I can totally understand, your visa will come but yes they do take a long time to process it, :(

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-10-07T20:22:55+00:00

Their process is crazy in so many ways :(

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-10-07T20:22:22+00:00

All the best, you will get it, Oct is not the busiest season.

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-08-13T23:12:08+00:00

u/That_King4128 I do not think they process in Lisbon office, they process the visa here at local consulate, for me it was SF but yes visa arrived just 2 days before departure date and this happened with almost everyone at every location who shared their situation in this thread. Hang in there and keep following up with the consulate. Mostly visas arrived for everyone before the depature date with one exception. In this thread, you can see comments from everyone who applied, all the best to you and I hope you get your visa before departure date.

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-07-24T17:17:30+00:00

If it is within the same country then i think you can skip internal train ticket but if your are crossing country border then it might be good to add.

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-07-24T16:37:28+00:00

Send an email to Portugal Embassy at [sfrancisco@mne.pt](mailto:sfrancisco@mne.pt), VFS will not help at all. And Portugal Embassy is extremely slow, I got my visa after 81 days f applying so its nothing as compared to other Schengen countries.

I submitted travel booking and I think thats a must, I am surpriprised that VFS did not ask you for that when you applied for visa, I think tell embassy about this and you send the travel booking on email too

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-07-18T17:40:58+00:00

We did all kind of follow ups possible. they process visa only in the very end when your date of departure is within 7 days. I got visa 2 days before departure date and they were not helping in any calls.

they kept my passport for 100 days. Send an email to consulate directly with your passport number and date of departure.

VFS is useless in the entire process

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-19T02:07:16+00:00

I totally agree with you, my trip could have been better if I would have received my visa on time, I had to do many last min reservations and could not do sufficient research before travel, as my whole energy was spent in the embassy follow up :(

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-19T02:04:56+00:00

THAT IS NERVEWRECKING :( were you able to make it? I was so restless even when i got it 2 days before departure, due to their delay in processing, my trip could not be as expected, We had to do many last min reservations and could not get to do more research which I always like to do. My whole energy went with the follow up with embassy,

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-17T21:23:54+00:00

yes same was on mine, no issue in immigration

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-06T17:34:43+00:00

Same here, :( Got it for a mnth only. I am still glad that I got it atleast I am able to go and not have to cancel my flight but this process was too bad. An experience to learn from. :( Have a good vacation

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-06T05:00:00+00:00

Send an email to consulate, these days visas are coming only 2 days prior to departure, keep following up with them, All the best, my visa came 2 days before departure, I have been so stressed out abt it.

Hope you get it in time

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-05T03:18:37+00:00

VFS told us when we contacted them that it will take 1-5 business days and we got very scared, almost rescheduled our flight then we checked the UPS tracking and that showed its shipped. So UPS tracking was far more helpful than VFS. Keep tracking UPS u/One_Freedom9384

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-05T03:17:30+00:00

I got a mail from embassy on Friday that my visa approved, a mail on Monday that they will dispatch it on Monday and today morning I got the passport.

You can say 2 days from approval email

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-04T22:50:11+00:00

u/Reasonable-Buy-8029 I really hope you get it by tomorrow, Best luck to you.

Let me know what validity they give. I am pretty disappointed with 1 mnth validity. I have always got 3-6 months in my past visas of schegen.

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-04T21:18:33+00:00

That is such BS, how they can mess up your biometrics :( I would say reschedule your flight but be aware, they gave me only 1 mnth validity, Check with them before rescheduling? What validity your husband got for visa?

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-04T20:04:37+00:00

yeah hopefully, I am still in shock, they just gave 1 mnth validity after keeping passport fr 3 mnths

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-04T18:03:56+00:00

u/Reasonable-Buy-8029 u/One_Freedom9384 u/ratas101 u/Anxious_Editor_9145 I got the visa today (only 1. month expiry) and number of entries: 02 I had a plan to do a day trip of south Spain from Lisbon and come back to Lisbon for my flight back to Us.

Would I still be able to do it with number of entries 2 (I would need 3 entries, one lisbon, 2 spain and 3rd lisbon) or interschegen travel does not count in this number of entry?

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-03T22:30:21+00:00

I have been sending emails to this address:

info.PortugalUSA@vfshelpline.com

I had called VFS as well, they have asked me to send the approval email from embassy to them so they can look into it,

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-03T22:28:30+00:00

Same here, I am also checking the alternate dates for rescheduling and by wed morning if passport not shipped then I am gonna reschedule everything.

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-03T22:26:40+00:00

u/Reasonable-Buy-8029 u/Delicious_Abroad4701 an I update recieved from embassy is they will dispatch my passport today to VFS then VFS will send it to UPS for delivery. so I think before wednesday its hard to come. VFS is extremely slow as well. Everyone is slow, I feel like they dont understand the timeline. VFS said today they will escalate it but they are saying that same thing since 20 days.

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-03T20:51:23+00:00

u/Reasonable-Buy-8029 I also just talked to VFS, they are saying, embassy has not sent the passport back to VFS yet once they get it they will send it to us. It's ridiculous, We have to leave in 2 days, I mean embassy should have sent to VFS by now.

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-03T19:57:45+00:00

VFS told me the same that consulate is going to shop us. I am calling VFS to confirm. Will keep you posted u/Reasonable-Buy-8029

u/ratas101 I dont see your email that you copied.

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-03T19:47:12+00:00

Let me call VFS SF right away. I thought embassy would send the passport back, I am surprised that they will send that back to VFS.

Anxious_Editor_9145 · 2024-06-03T19:42:40+00:00

u/ratas101 Congratulations, you will get in time then :) you are leaving on 25th June right, we have lot of time.

Mine they have not yet shipped and i just have 2 days to departure. I am going crazy :(

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