{"id":4294,"date":"2022-10-13T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahane-gardesh.ir\/%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%84%db%8c%d9%82-%d9%88%db%8c%d8%b2%d8%a7%db%8c-%d8%b4%d9%86%da%af%d9%86-%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%9b-%d8%b4%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%b9%d9%87-%db%8c%d8%a7-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T12:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T09:04:34","slug":"%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%84%db%8c%d9%82-%d9%88%db%8c%d8%b2%d8%a7%db%8c-%d8%b4%d9%86%da%af%d9%86-%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%9b-%d8%b4%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%b9%d9%87-%db%8c%d8%a7-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahane-gardesh.ir\/en\/%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%84%db%8c%d9%82-%d9%88%db%8c%d8%b2%d8%a7%db%8c-%d8%b4%d9%86%da%af%d9%86-%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%9b-%d8%b4%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%b9%d9%87-%db%8c%d8%a7-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82\/","title":{"rendered":"?Suspension of Schengen visa in Iran; Rumor or fact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The suspension of the issuance of Schengen visas in Iran has been rejected by the governments of Germany and Poland, and the French embassy has also called it a “rumor”. Nevertheless, the direct evidence and the statements of tourism agency owners in Iran still support the suspension of Schengen visa issuance by the embassies of most European countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to jahane- gardesh<\/strong> – after the publication of ISNA’s report and the announcement of the head of the Board of Directors of the Iranian Travel Service Offices Association that some European embassies, especially in the Schengen area, without official notification and in a decision that is mostly informal, have stopped processing visa requests for the time being. have stopped and suspended the issuance of Schengen visas, the spokesperson of the German Foreign Ministry emphasized in response to this news that “the visa issuing department of this country’s embassy in Tehran continues its normal activity and both at the national level and at the Schengen level according to the regulations, Issuance of visas continues.”
One of the operators of the German visa application center (Visametric) in Tehran said in a phone call to ISNA: “This center is still active and there has been no new announcement from the German embassy about the suspension of Schengen visa issuance or the suspension of applications, but it has received It is still possible to make a visa appointment through the website, but it is not possible to make an appointment until the end of October (around the 10th of November).
Earlier, the person in charge of the visa department in one of Tehran’s agencies, who said that “the processing of visa requests by the embassies of European countries (Schengen area) located in Iran, has been stopped”, confirmed that it is possible to get visas from some European embassies, including Germany. It doesn’t exist until the end of October (about 10th of Aban 1401).
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland has also announced in response: “We have no plans to suspend our activities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the French Embassy in Tehran, whose visa application center had previously informed, “Due to the conditions in Iran, the Internet has been disrupted, and as a result, the French visa application center in Tehran is not able to process visa applications. This situation is beyond the control of VFS and the French Embassy”, while this message is still visible on the center’s website, he called the visa suspension a “rumor” and wrote on Twitter: “France still issues visas in Iran. However, government filtering of the Internet has significantly slowed down our activity. Beware of rumours!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ISNA reporter’s follow-up with European tour operators as well as Schengen visa application centers (VFS Global) in Iran, still shows that it is not possible to get the time of delivery of visa documents from most embassies online. There are also embassies that have stopped issuing tourist visas and only deal with applications for study and business visas.
This center provides visa application services in Iran for the embassies of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland and the Netherlands in the Schengen area directly and some other Schengen countries indirectly. , and also works for the embassies of Croatia, England, Australia and New Zealand.
Omid Mohammad Alikhan <\/strong>– one of the reputable European tour operators in Iran – also confirms the suspension of Schengen visas in a number of embassies of European countries located in Tehran and tells ISNA: We are one of the trusted agencies in the embassies of Switzerland, Spain and France, all three of which Embassies have stopped processing Schengen visa applications. Around the beginning of September 1401, the Swiss Embassy informed that due to the lack of manpower, it is not possible to process new Schengen<\/strong> visa applications from October 1st to January, and it has suspended the processing of Schengen visa applications, but individual applications and Handles requests that have already been made.
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He added the explanation that these three embassies had reduced the number of Schengen visa appointments almost since August, so that it had become very difficult for ordinary people to get a Schengen visa appointment. In addition, our agency has not been able to get a visa for a traveler for about three weeks despite the credit it has at the Spanish Embassy. The Spanish Embassy recently announced that it is unable to process visa applications due to internet problems in Iran.
This manager of European tours added: The French Embassy in Tehran announced on Twitter on Tuesday the 19th of October that “it will still issue visas in Iran”, but it has not given any new appointment for visas for about three weeks and sent an email to our agency that reiterated Due to internet disruption in Iran, it is not possible to accept new visa applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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He also said: I know that some other embassies, such as England and India, have stopped processing visa applications in Iran.
At the same time, this manager of European tours in Iran announced the continuation of the activities of the visa and consular departments of other European embassies, but said: Although the consular departments of these embassies of Schengen countries are active, they issue visas with great delay or process requests slowly. .
He also rejected the possibility of an increase in immigration, which some have considered as a reason for suspending the issuance of visas in Iran’s current conditions, and said: Before Corona, 220,000 Schengen visas were issued to Iranian nationals, and the most requests were from Germany, France, Italy and It was Spain that this statistic is not really a significant number compared to Iran’s population of 85 million. On the other hand, it is estimated that about 1% of the 220,000 travelers who received Schengen visas may not have returned to the country, which is not a significant number in the overall scale. Therefore, immigration cannot be an excuse to stop the consular activities of an embassy.
This host of European and Asian tours raised questions about how the embassy of a country like France, which has stopped its consular activity even “temporarily” on the pretext of internet disruption, does not have a way to respond to visa requests in Iran. Before, people are not accountable and don’t have a solution and idea to deliver the passports to their owners without losing their rights? Does the action of some embassies, which have announced the suspension of their consular activities months ago, stem from a diplomatic decision or is there another motive behind it?
Despite these statements and in the current situation, it seems that the reaction and declaration of opinion of some embassies regarding the continuation of issuing Schengen visas and the activity of the consular department is a diplomatic rhetoric; Because maybe the consular desk for issuing visas is active in these embassies, but actually it is not possible for ordinary people to get a Schengen visa appointment from most of the embassies of European countries in Iran, and the passports of travelers who have already applied through tourist agencies have been pending in these embassies for weeks. remained. On the other hand, the restrictive action of some of these embassies has worried many travelers who have already spent money to travel for study, work, business or tourist motives and put them in an ambiguous situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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