How Nigerians Can Get a Visa to Belgium
The Kingdom of Belgium is a small, densely populated country in west Europe, which covers a total area of 30,528 square kilometres, with a population of about 11 million people. Two major languages spoken in Belgium are French and Dutch and this is as a result of the country's location right between Germanic and Latin Europe.
The capital is Brussels.
Types of Belgian Visas
- Short-Stay visa
- Long-Stay visa
- Transit visa
Where To Go
Embassy of Belgium in Nigeria
Address: 9, Usuma Street, Maitama.Abuja
Phone: +234-806-979-2233, +234-803-301-6822, +234-803-884-1003
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://diplomatie.belgium.be/nigeria
Requirements
These are the supporting documents to submit when applying for a short-stay visa for professional purposes.
A completed and signed application form, complying with the harmonised SCHENGEN visa application form. You append a recent identity photograph meeting the standards in force. Any person appearing in your travel document must complete a separate application form. Minor children must submit an application form signed by a person with parental authority or by a legal guardian;
A travel document (e.g. a passport), valid for at least 3 months from the date on which you intend to leave the SCHENGEN territory, or, in the case of multiple journeys, the date on which you intend to leave it for the last time. This document must also contain at least 2 blank pages and have been issued less than 10 years ago;
The documents indicating the purpose of your journey (e.g. an invitation from a business or an authority to participate in talks, lectures or events of an industrial or commercial nature, other documents indicating the existence of commercial or professional relationships, entry tickets to fairs and congresses, documents attesting to the activities of your business, documents attesting to the status of employment within your business, etc.);
The documents relating to accommodation (e.g. in the case of accommodation with a private individual, an invitation from the person hosting you, or in the case of a stay in a hotel, guesthouse, etc., a supporting document from the establishment offering accommodation or any other substantiating document indicating the type of accommodation envisaged, etc.);
The documents indicating that you have sufficient personal means of subsistence, both for the duration of your stay on the SCHENGEN territory and for the transit to a third country in which your admission is guaranteed or a commitment that charge will be taken;
Information indicating that you retain the centre of your interests in your country of origin or habitual residence (e.g. any proof that you have roots in your country of origin or habitual residence: attestation of employment, professional situation, receipt of regular income, ownership of real estate, family situation, etc.);
Suitable, valid travel health insurance covering any costs of repatriation for medical reasons, emergency medical care and/or emergency hospital care or death during your stay/s on the SCHENGEN territory. This insurance must be valid for the whole of this territory and the whole of the stay. The minimum cover is 30,000 EUR;
If you are applying for a multiple-entry visa, you must in addition establish the need to travel frequently and/or regularly, inter alia because of your job or your family situation, and prove your integrity and reliability, inter alia by the legal use of visas issued previously, by your economic situation and by your desire to leave the territory of the SCHENGEN States before the expiry of the visa applied for;
When you receive confirmation of the issue of the visa, add the proof of the transport that you will use to reach Belgium (non-transferable return ticket in your name). This proof is not required when you lodge the visa application, to avoid unnecessary costs. On the other hand, proof of the reservation of a return ticket may be demanded.
For further information on other and all types of visas, please visit the official website of the Embassy of Belgium in Nigeria.
