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VI. HOW TO FILL IN VISA STICKERS
Annexes 8 and 13 contain the following: 8 — a description of the sticker's security features; 13 — examples of specimen visa stickers that have already been filled in.
1. Common entries section (Section
1.1. "VALID FOR" heading
This heading indicates the territory in which the visa holder is entitled to travel.
This heading may be completed in one of the following four ways only:
(a) Schengen States;
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b) Schengen State or Schengen States to whose territory the validity of the visa is limited (in this case the following abbreviations are used: A for Austria, F for France, D for Germany, E for Spain, GR for Greece, P for Portugal, I for Italy, L for Luxembourg, NL for the Netherlands, B for Belgium);
(c) Benelux;
(d) Schengen State (using the abbreviations in (b)) which issued the national long-stay visa + Schengen States
- When the sticker is used to issue the uniform visa pursuant to Articles 10 and 11 of the Convention, or to issue a visa whose validity is not limited to the territory of the Contracting Party which issued the visa, the heading "valid for" is filled in using the words "Schengen States", in the language of the Contracting Party which issued the visa.
- When the sticker is used to issue visas which restrict entry, stay and exit to just one territory, this heading shall be filled in, in the national language, with the name of the Contracting Party to which the visa holder's entry, stay and exit are limited.
- When the sticker is used to issue a national long-stay visa valid concurrently as a uniform short-stay visa for a maximum period of three months from its initial date of validity, this heading is to be filled in with the Member State which issued the national long-stay visa, followed by "Schengen States".
- Pursuant to Article 14 of the Convention, limited territorial validity may cover the territory of several Member States; in that case, according to the Member State codes to be entered under this heading, the following options are available:
(a) entry of the codes for the Member States concerned;
(b) entry of the words "Schengen States" in the language of the issuing Member State, followed in brackets by the minus sign and the codes of the Member States for the territories of which the visa is not valid.- Limited territorial validity may not apply to just part of the territory of a Contracting Party.
1.2. "FROM … TO" heading
This heading indicates the period of the holder's stay as authorised by the visa.
The date from which the visa holder may enter the territory for which the visa is valid is written as below, following the word "FROM":
- the day is written using two digits, the first of which is a zero if the day in question is a single digit.
- horizontal dash.
- the month is written using two digits, the first of which is a zero if the month in question is a single digit.
- horizontal dash.
- the year is written using two digits, which correspond with the last two digits of the year.
- For example: 15-04-94 = 15 April 1994.
The date of the last day of the period of the visa holder's authorised stay is entered after the word "TO". The visa holder must have left the territory for which the visa is valid by midnight on this date.
This date is written in the same way as the first date above.
