Schengen visa sponsored by my father

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The visa officials will try to let genuine tourists in and to keep illegal immigrants out. You will have to convince the officials that you are a genuine tourist.

  • Sponsorship or an invitation letter are not required for tourism. A reasonable explanation what you want to do is required.
  • However, they do want to know who pays for your trip and why. It is entirely normal that a parent or older relative pays for the trip of a young adult, but only if that person can really afford it. Is the money a gift or an investment? If the whole family empties their savings accounts to send one young relative abroad, that looks like illegal immigration.
  • They will also want to know if you have ties to your homeland which make it appear more likely that you will return. The best case is a stable, well-paid job, but they realize that this isn't always the case for young adults.

Looking at the snow in Finland and the art in Paris is entirely normal for a tourist. Visiting an internet friend is not normal for a tourist unless the tourist can really afford to spend that money.

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Put yourself in the shoes of the other. If you were the officer judging, which bits of your story would trigger red flags? Let's have a try: no job, just out of school , no independent source of income, never seen the "Internet" friend. Without knowing your nationality, that already sounds like a "Reject".

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