Germany: The top choice for obtaining multiple-entry Schengen Visa this year
Schengen visa, as this nation is your best chance of getting such a visa, according to a Schengen news report.
“Despite being the second most sought-after Schengen Area destination, Germany’s rates of multiple-entry visa issuance have remained high, as newly released Schengen Visa Statistics show that 90.4% of visas issued by the German consulates in 2023 were multiple-entry,” says the report.
This is only 0.2 percentage points lower than in 2022, when 90.6 per cent of short-term visas issued by Germany were for entering the Schengen Area more than once, Schengen.News reports.
In 2023, Germany approved 1,233,561 out of the 1,459,560 visa applications it received. Among the approved visas, 1,115,424 were granted as multiple entry visas.
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Apart from Germany, several other Schengen Area nations have higher issuance rates of multiple-entry visas than the EU average, according to 2023 data, says report.
Austria holds the second position after Germany, with 75.7 per cent of the visas it issued being multiple-entry visas. During the same period, Austrian consulates abroad processed 2,29,613 Schengen
