Pakistanis submitted more than 10,000 visa applications for Schengen countries and think what? They saw a highest visa rejection rate in all over the world.
Around 50% of Pakistani nationals Applications were rejected, Austria was the top Country in Pakistani citizens visa rejections.
Austria is on the top of the list
In 2023, 3,006 Pakistani nationals applied for a Austria visa, they submitted their visa applications at Austria embassy in Islamabad, only 769 visa applications were approved by Austria and the rest were rejected, this make a 73% visa rejection which is the highest.
Sweden is coming 2nd after Austria, Sweden rejected most of Pakistani visa applications, Sweden rejected around 70% Pakistani visa requests.
Sweden is followed by Greece with almost 66% visa rejection, after Greece Portugal and Netherlands are on 4th and 5th places.
Which country granted highest Schengen visas to Pakistanis?
We listed above that top 5 countries which rejected most of Pakistani visa applications but there a few European countries who issued the most visa to Pakistani nationals.
According to the Schengeninfo France is the country who issued most visas to Pakistani nationals, in 2023 France approved nearly 62% of Pakistani visa applications. France is followed by Italy, Italy is second most visa approved country for Pakistanis, around 61% visa applications were approved by Italy.
Analyzing Why Schengen Countries Often Deny Visas to Pakistani Applicants
Well you can not apply for Schengen visa if your documents aren’t complete, the Schengen countries in Pakistan first control your do your documents and than allows you to apply for visa.
So if they confirm that all your documents are complete than why they reject most Pakistani visa applicants? It’s in important question and we will answer it in best possible way.
Risk of refugees
Pakistan is a country where a big number of people don’t have any job, and those who have jobs are also live with very low salaries, along with that the Country is facing a heavy inflation and the economy is going down day by day, all these make a dark future in the mind of young generation and they look for a getaway to leave the country.
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EU and those countries who accept the refugee and have a good social support system from the government is their top of the list. This is make the EU countries worrying about thier visa application that they may seek refuge in Europe.
Poor Profiles
When some Pakistani nationals apply for a Schengen visa, they prepare their bank statements and create records of payments. However, these payments do not come from a regular income or salary, making their bank statements appear artificial rather than natural.
Additionally, many of them do not have salary payslips, which raises concerns for consular officers. They suspect that the applicant is not a genuine tourist but plans to leave the country due to inadequate living and working conditions in Pakistan.
Most of Pakistani nationals know that the EU embassies will not believe that they are real tourists so they try to don’t apply for tourist visa instead they are looking for student visa and work permits.
Work permits are currently very popular in Pakistan, this is something that the Consular officer will be more agree with it, because logically it’s look fine when someone want to work in EU from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh or a lot of other countries.
How to avoid Schengen visa rejection?
Schengen countries are very strict on it’s policy in Pakistan, they are only issue a tourist visa to a Pakistani national when they have the confidence that this person will return back to his country and to stay there forever so applicants need to give this confidence to the Consular officer that they will return back to Pakistan.
This is important part of this case, so what make a visa officer confident that applicants will not misuse his/her visa and will return back to his home country? Most of Schengen countries will invite applicant for interview, so this the time that an applicant should give the confidence to visa officer that he or she is aa real tourist not a refuge seeker.
The first point is this that the person should have a very good life in Pakistan, in this case the visa officer will think that this person have good life in Pakistan and he don’t want to leave his life and refuge to Europe.
To show that you have good life in Pakistan you should have strong financial documents, this can be a strong Bank statement with strong Bank balance and with a good salary and job.
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It will not help you if you just put a big amount in your Bank account for one time and increase your balance, it’s good but not enough, you need to have proper and regular income. For this you should have proper monthly bank records.
Additionally you need to have a good job with high salary, high salary mean higher than Europe, you need to have more income than an income which you may get in Europe. If you make these conditions available the visa officer will definitely think to issue a visa for you.
Something are not fully in your hands for example age, if you are just 25, 26 year’s old and you are single it maybe not look very convincing that you have very high income or a great profile in a country like Pakistan this much fast.
