eu-com-schengen-coop

situation triggered notably the vigilance of the UK high commission which saw an increase of Visa
request for England with cases of fake supporting document of those companies.
Unfortunately, this type of information is not shared in VIS, the consular sections still prefer to
communicate between each other through unencrypted emails. The main reason to limit the use of
VIS remains technical problems when it comes to share comments on the individual applications.
3.2. Assessment of the need to harmonise the lists of supporting documents
The Actual VIS system should be debugged in order to use it with his full operational potential.
3.3 Exchange of information
LSC members are willing to share documents upon request, statistic, reports... see point 3.1
3.4 Any other initiative taken in LSC
None.
4. Challenges in 2013-2014
None reported except the increasing sophistication of forged documents and the repeated fraudulent
applications from the same person
None.
5. Other issues
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