Visas for the ESF2008

List of all visa countries for Sweden

European visacountries:

• Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine.

  Read more about visa facilitation agreement.

  The visa costs 35 euros.
  
  
  

• Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kosovo, Belarus, Turkey, Armenia

  The visa costs 60 euros.

  Visacountries outside Europe:

• South-Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau (and others)
  
  The visa costs 60 euros

  
  

The procedure for visas in Sweden follows the Schengen agreement.

Read information about how to get an entry visa for Sweden. Entry visa to Sweden

Please note that a health-insurance is mandatory for all applicants.

Invitation for the ESF 2008

Before sending the information, check information by country below. If specific information is not available contact us at visa@esf2008.org. We will get in contact with relevant Swedish consulate and provide the information. We will help you by sending an official invitation to the Embassy/Consulate in your homecountry. This is no guarantee but will hopefully facilitate the visa-application process. Note that it will most likely be mandatory to have a health-insurance that covers damages up to 30.000 Euro in order to receive a Schengen-visa.

Information applicant has to send to NOC (for the invitation):

• Personal data of the visa applicant/invitee/visitor (such as name, date of birth, passport no, expiry date of passport, issue date of passport)

• Date of journey

• How the journey will be financed (Travel, accommodation, visa, travelinsurance)

List of documents which the applicant should enclose together with the visa application form (at the embassy/consulate:

1. Two colour photo, not older than 6 months
2. Passport with a minimum of 3 months of validity from the date when the visa should expire and a copy of the first (photo) page of the passport and other pages containing stamps or previous visas.
   
3. Individual medical travel insurance that should cover:
   - the costs that can come up in connection with emergency medical help and/or urgent hospital treatment.

- return to the home country due to medical reasons

- the insurance should be valid in the whole Schengen territory, all EU countries, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

- the insurance should cover the whole time of the validity of the visa and cover expenses of a minimum of 30.000 Euros. During the submission of the visa application the original insurance document should be shown and a copy should be attached to the application.

The Embassy recommends that the applicant chooses an insurance company which will reimburse the insurance fee in case the visa would not be granted.

4. Besides this some countries demand additional information such as an employment certificate, photocopies of the passport etc. Check under each country for more information.

Checklist for Schengen visas

 

For country-specific visa-information - click here