From 1 July 2026, the fee for long-stay visa (D visa) applications will increase to €250.
If you already have an appointment scheduled on or after 1 July 2026, the new fee will apply when you submit your visa application.
Please ensure that you pay the updated fee on the day of your appointment.
As of 10 April 2026, the new EU Entry/Exit System (EES) is now fully operational across all Schengen countries.
What is the Entry/Exit System?
Instead of stamping passports, the system will record your entry and exit electronically if you are a non-EU traveller staying for a short period.
It will also collect basic information such as your facial image, fingerprints, and details from your travel documents.
This system helps improve border control, increase security, and make the process faster and more efficient.
Who does it apply to?
The Entry/Exit System (EES) applies to non-EU travellers staying in the Schengen area for a short period (up to 90 days within any 180 days).
It applies whether you need a visa or not.
A non-EU traveller is anyone who is not a citizen of an EU country, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Switzerland.
Some travellers may be exempt, depending on their status.
How does it work?
With the Entry/Exit System (EES), every time you enter or leave the Schengen area, your information is recorded electronically. This also applies if you are refused entry.
The system securely stores your facial image, fingerprints, and details from your travel documents.
Key benefits of the system
The Entry/Exit System (EES) is designed to:
make border checks faster and more efficient
reduce waiting times, including through self-service options
improve security by identifying people who overstay and helping prevent identity fraud
support authorities in detecting security risks and serious crime.
For more information, please consult the official EU website.
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.
For D-Visas related to marriage and legal cohabitation, applicants must now have travel health insurance valid for at least three months after arrival in Belgium. This insurance must cover potential repatriation costs for medical reasons, emergency medical care, and/or urgent hospitalization or death, with a minimum coverage of 30,000 EUR.
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.).