Getting a tourist visa to Greece for Russians

What a visa is needed in Greece? How to get a Greek visa and what documents are required for this? What are the terms of manufacture and the cost of registration of a visa to Greece? Read on the tour calendar!

What a visa is needed in Greece

Greece is visited with different goals and at different times of the year. But when and for what you did not go to this welcoming country, you will need a visa, because Greece is also a terrible country of the Schengen Agreement.

The requirements of Greece do not have almost no features compared to the general agenic rules for issuing visas. The exception is the autonomous territory of Athos, to visit which the mode is installed. And some Greek Islands under certain conditions can be visited without obtaining a Greek visa.

In general, the Greeks are fairly loyal to Russian tourists, as evidenced by quite frequent issuance of three-year-olds (can be issued if there is at least one Schengen visa in the applicant's passport) and five-year-old visas (can be issued subject to the use of previous Schengen visas).

Registration of a Greek visa through a travel agency

The standard set of visited visas, when buying a tour in travel agency, is:

Questionnaire and documents for obtaining a visa to Greece

Attention!If there is marks about visiting Northern Cyprus in your passport, be prepared for increased attention to your documents from the Greek representative offices!

Financial guarantees upon receipt of a Greek visa

As such, when receiving a visa to Greece can be presented:

• Help from the place of work with the details and the seal of the employer and signed by the head. The certificate indicates the position, experience, salary of the applicant, as well as data on the dates of the paid vacation. If your employer is an individual entrepreneur, further will need to provide his testimony of OGRN and TIN.

Individual entrepreneurs themselves provide a copy of the certificate of registration and formulation for tax accounting, the latest tax return.

• As financial guarantees, an extract from the account / credit card with information over the past three months may also be given, or confirmation of property ownership in Russia.

Pensioners and students make photocopies of documents confirming their status. For students - this is a certificate from the place of study and a student card, for pensioners - a pension certificate.

From non-working persons who cannot confirm their financial security by bank documents, a letter of sponsor will be required. The letter is made by hand, in it the sponsor undertakes to pay the applicant's trip to the countries of the Schengen Agreement, including Greece. The sponsor signs the document, be sure to indicate the period of the trip, date of registration. The writer's financial documents are attached to the letter (employer's certificate, account statement), a copy of the sponsor passport and a document confirming the fact of kinship with a sponsor.

As a sponsor can only be a close relative!

With participation in the tour to Greece, the child under 18 is provided:

Persons under 18 will need to provide: the original and a copy of the birth certificate. If a child goes accompanied by one of the parents - notarized permission to depart the child from another parent.

If a child rides without parents - a notarial agreement to depart the child, certified, besides the apostil, from both parents, as well as copies of all pages of their Russian passports. Passport details of parents are made at the power of attorney, the address according to registration, the data of the accompanying child face (name, passport data), the purpose of the trip (tourism), the dates of the trip.

In case the visa is requested only to the child, photocopies of the active Schengen visas will be required.

Attention! Original documents transferred to the visa and notarial copies remain in the consulate, so in advance or a second original or a notarized copy of the permission to leave the child, which will need to be present when crossing the border.

How to get a visa to Greece yourself

To design a visa to Greece, they will also need:

• Medical insurance with minimal insurance coverage of 30,000 euros, operating in the territory of the countries of the Schengen Agreement for the entire period of stay (original and photocopy of the policy).
• Confirmation of hotel armor (original or electronic copy of the seal of the hotel and the signature of the responsible person).

A special requirement of the Greek side is the confirmation of 30% of the payment of booked housing.

When traveling by car, you will need a route list (where you need to specify a detailed route to Greece), a photocopy of the system on the car, driver's license and international car insurance.

Traveling to the islands of the Aegean Sea, visiting Athon

Without the design of a Schengen visa (under certain conditions and from June to September (inclusive)), you can visit some of the Aegean Sea Islands: Samos, Chios, Kos, Rhodes, Lesbos.

The conditions under which such a visit is possible:

• Arrival on the islands on the ferry from Turkey
• Availability of armor hotels
• Purchase tour from the Turkish company

For a trip to the island, a single visa is drawn up (its cost is also 35 euros). The visa is issued for a period of 15 days and it is impossible to visit the mainland part of Greece.

Visiting Athos is possible only for male people. Tourists-pilgrims need a special resolution (diagonirion). There is such a resolution of 4 days. You can get it on your own, but it is better to use the services of operators that organize pilgrimage trips to the holy mountain.

Visa cost in Greece

As of November 2017, the consular fee for issuing a Schengen visa to Greece is 2380 rubles (which is equivalent to 35 euros).

Payable in rubles in cash or on the map, directly on the day of submission of documents.

Service Collection When submitting documents through visa centers, a collection of 1360 rubles is paid.

Visa fee from children under 12 years old, close relatives of persons legally living in Greece, or the countries of the European Union, the disabled and the second group and the accompanying person (upon presentation of reference).

Dates for the manufacture of a visa to Greece

The standard deadline for the decoration of the Schengen visa is 10 business days. Usually, the Greek visa is drawn up for about 2 working days (not including the date of submission of documents and the period for transporting documents to the visa center). Nevertheless, the application for a visa is better to apply in advance - two weeks before the trip, but not earlier than three months before it.

Information on the procedure for applying for a Greek visa

You can apply for a Greek visa to visa centers, both personally and through the travel agency accredited by the General Consulate of Greece, or through a representative (a close relative in the selection of visas for a visit to the family).