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15. Specimen harmonised forms providing proof of invitation, sponsorship and accommodation
drafted by the Contracting Parties
16. Specimen harmonised uniform visa application form
17. Facilitated Transit Document (FTD) and Facilitated Rail Transit Document (FRTD)
18. Table of representation for issuing uniform visas
COMMON CONSULAR INSTRUCTIONS
on visas for the diplomatic missions and consular posts of the contracting parties to the Schengen
Convention
SUBJECT: Conditions governing the issue of uniform visas, valid for the territory of all the
Contracting Parties.
I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. Scope
The following common provisions, which are based on the provisions of Chapter 3 (sections 1 and 2)
of the Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments
of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French
Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders (hereinafter referred to as "the
Convention") signed in Schengen on 19 June 1990, and which Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and
Austria have since acceded to, apply to the examination of visa applications for a visit not exceeding
three months, including transit visas, valid for the territory of all the Contracting Parties. [1]
Visas for visits exceeding three months remain subject to national procedures and only authorise the
holder to stay in the one national territory. Nevertheless, such visas shall enable their holders to
transit through the territories of the other Contracting Parties in order to reach the territory of the
Contracting Party which issued the visa, unless they fail to fulfil the entry conditions referred to in
Article 5(1)(a), (d) and (e) or they are on the national list of alerts of the Contracting Party through
whose territory they seek to transit.
2. Definition and types of visa
2.1. Uniform visas
Uniform visas are the authorisation or decision taking the form of a sticker affixed by a Contracting
Party to a passport, travel document or other document which entitles the holder to cross the border.
It enables aliens subject to the visa requirement to present themselves at the external border of the
Contracting Party which issued the visa or that of another Contracting Party and request, depending
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