Steve ...Originally Posted by Bluebirdjones
No matey .....
In the case of the French Embassy, you merely download the visa form off their Embassy website & select a date/time for an "interview".
You then turn up at the alloted time with all your revelant docs (as specified on the application form), and you return 1 week later to collect (or get it posted to you).
You do NOT have to have a travel iternery, nor flights/hotels booked etc etc.
I think all Schengen Embassies work the same way, although some outsource to VFS (where the charges come in).
; I can certainly confirm this is the way the French Consulate operates - at least in Edinburgh [where Myrna was issued with her Schengen Visa a year or so, ago!]. All she needed to produce were our Marriage Certificate and both our *passports plus an extra set of *similar-sized photos.
And the best bit about it IS, spouses of British Citizens are entitled to receive visas for France FREE of charge... the only drawback being that there's generally a waiting period of up to 14 working days for processing.
However - as has already been mentioned - some Embassies employ the services of VFS ... who do levy a small handling fee (not sure how much!). But whether Spain is one of the countries affected,I wouldn't know for definite.
