All about Sponsorship Letter for Schengen Visa
Posted date: 02 Oct 2020
The Schengen visa may be the most exciting visa to obtain, as it gives you the ability to visit 26 countries with a single passport, without having to show it whenever you travel from one country to another or pay extra fees. Furthermore, you have the opportunity to visit non-Schengen countries which allow travelers to enter their borders on a Schengen visa. You may also need to send, among other documents, a letter of sponsorship, particularly if someone else is going to finance your travel and stay in the Schengen area financially, in the absence of your personal means of subsistence. This article, briefly, but clearly, outlines everything you need to know about the Schengen Visa Sponsorship Letter.
A sponsorship letter for the Schengen visa is a document that you will have to send to the Embassy along with other documents when you go to the Consular Officer to attend a Schengen visa interview. A letter of sponsorship is requested in cases where the applicant will not cover his/ her Schengen expenses, but the sponsor will instead pay for lodging, food and more for his / her journey. The sponsor, who outlines their partnership with the applicant and the costs to be covered, shall write the letter. In order for the letter to be legitimate, documentation proving the existence of the funds and the identity of the sponsor must be attached to it.
The method of writing a sponsorship letter for a Schengen visa is not complicated at all. Especially if you already have experience writing letters of sponsorship, either for a Schengen visa or for a visa to some other country. The letter should be concise and straightforward, including all the relevant details about the identity of the sponsor as well as the applicant's expenses and their relationship. Do not include any details that you are unable to help with the documentation that you must send alongside the sponsorship letter.
If you don't help your claims with documents, whatever you wrote and asserted in the Schengen visa sponsorship letter will be invalid. If the sponsor has finished writing the letter to the applicant, he or she should sign it at the end of the letter and give it, along with the supporting documents, to the applicant. It is possible to submit these documents by scanning, but it is easier to submit them in the original format (apart from the ID / passport). The applicant will then apply these documents, along with the other documents needed for the Schengen visa, on the day of the visa appointment.
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