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We remind applicants for a short-stay tourist visa (Type C) that this type of visa is issued exclusively for tourism purposes in Belgium.Belgium must be the main destination of the trip.This means that the applicant must spend the majority of their stay in Belgium, and not in another Schengen country.If the primary purpose of the trip is to visit another Schengen country, the visa application must be submitted to that country, even if the applicant enters the Schengen Area through Belgium.Any false declaration or inappropriate application may lead to a visa refusal and compromise future visa requests.

All applicants are advised that from now on, walkers and similar persons will not be allowed access to the tlscontact centre.

Indeed, it has been noted that some people come back several times with documents from different people for the same service. henceforth, any person who brings documents that are not theirs, more than once, will be considered as third-party agent and will be banned from accessing the visa application centre.

On 22 May 2024, the Official Journal of the European Union published Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1415 of 14 March 2024 amending Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 as regards the amount of the visa fee, which you will find in the appendix.

This means that starting from 11 June 2024, the visa fee will increase from EUR 80 to EUR 90 for short-stay visas for adults and from EUR 40 to EUR 45 for short-stay visas for children aged 6 to 12 years.

The visa fee amount remains unchanged for countries benefiting from a visa facilitation agreement, staying at EUR 35, except for Cape Verde nationals, for whom the visa fee will increase from EUR 60 to EUR 67.50 for adults and from EUR 30 to EUR 33.75 for children aged 6 to 12 years.

Starting in March 2024, our visa applicants will be required to pay the TLScontact service fees in advance via our website.Once payment has been made, the applicant will receive email confirmation of their appointment.

Please keep in mind that changing the appointment date or time is possible.

Even if the applicant cancels their appointment in advance, reservations are non-refundable. The service fees remain with TLScontact and will not be refunded in the event of a no-show at the scheduled appointment or non-submission of the application (abandonment, incorrect visa type, etc.).

MAKING AN APPOINTMENT AT THE TLSCONTACT VISA APPLICATION CENTRE IS FREE

Do not pay anyone who claims they can guarantee an appointment or special treatment.

Visa applicants have reported paying various sums of money (from 5,000 CFA to 250,000 CFA) to external people outside the TLScontact building to obtain either an appointment or documents which are supposed to guarantee the applicant a visa.

The money paid to these third parties can in no way speed up the processing of your visa application or ensure a favourable outcome or benefit you in case of a complaint.

TLScontact strongly condemns these fraudulent and deceptive practices.

No external intermediaries are accredited by TLScontact or the Embassy.

If you have been a victim of these practices, we urge you to lodge a complaint for fraud with the Cameroonian authorities and to report these people to us by e-mail at customercare.yao2be@tlscontact.com