Community description

Tikslinė auditorija

• Staff working with visa processing in any part of the process
• Staff working with migration processes adjacent to visas who might benefit from a broad understanding of visa processing
• Managers and supervisors of staff working with visa processing who have little experience with visas.

Objectives

• Understand what is the Schengen Area and when Schengen regulations apply;
• Understand the different types of visas and who needs to apply;
• Understand what an ATV is and how it works;
• Be able to decide if an application is admissible or not;
• Verify and resonate about entry conditions and risk assessment;
• Understand when and how to check databases in visa processing;
• Know when to issue or refuse a visa, and what the appeal procedure looks like;
• Learn to apply the cascade system;
• Be able to fill, affix and read a visa sticker, as well as marking an annulment or revocation;
• Understand  procedures at the border and when to issue/refuse a visa at the border.

Siūlo

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