Schengen Visa ration for approval and rejection.
European Commission has released new statistics of Schengen visa applications of 2019. With an immense increase of 5.8% in applications received by Schengen states than in 2018, almost 17 million people applied for a short-stay visa. 15 million Schengen visas were granted for a short stay reason. Schengen visa ratio has been 91.1% for approval rate whereas the visa rejection rate increased too with 9.9%.
France issued most of the Schengen visas 3,291,128 with a visa issuance rate of 84%. Germany remained number 2 by issuing 1.9 million visas with the approval rate of 91.2%.
Luxembourg issued the least Schengen visas 11,251 with an approval rate of almost 96% (It’s consulates and embassies received only 11,723 visa applications in 2019).
Iceland holds the most approval rate for Schengen visa 98.8% as it only rejected 1.2% applications (It issued 18,020 out of 18,183 applied applications in 2019).
Portugal has the most Schengen visa rejection rate of 20,3% as it issued 235,897 out of 297,236 visa applications.
Most applications (4 million) were submitted in Russia with an increase of 11.8%. China remained number 2 with 3 million followed by India at number 3 by submitting 1 million Schengen visa applications.
List of Schengen countries with short-stay visa issuance statistics.
| Schengen State | Uniform visas applied for | Total uniform visas issued (including MEV) | Multiple entry uniform visas (MEVs) issued | Total LTVs issued | Uniform visas not issued | Not issued rate for uniform visas | Share of MEVs | ||
| Austria | 323,262 | 306,458 | 151,022 | 6,378 | 16,775 | 5,2% | 49,3% | ||
| Belgium | 248,021 | 190,222 | 96,796 | 549 | 46,649 | 18,8% | 50,9% | ||
| Czech Republic | 739,818 | 699,088 | 179,454 | 1,801 | 38,929 | 5,3% | 25,7% | ||
| Denmark | 165,191 | 148,145 | 71,622 | 122 | 14,412 | 8,7% | 48,3% | ||
| Estonia | 145,711 | 143,582 | 132,151 | 65 | 2,062 | 1,4% | 92,0% | ||
| Finland | 895,775 | 875,356 | 789,998 | 2,403 | 16,894 | 1,9% | 90,2% | ||
| France | 3,980,989 | 3,291,128 | 979,996 | 3,568 | 635,489 | 16,0% | 29,8% | ||
| Germany | 2,171,309 | 1,916,408 | 1,664,448 | 41,595 | 213,306 | 9,8% | 86,9% | ||
| Greece | 880,892 | 827,291 | 633,479 | 8,574 | 39,342 | 4,5% | 76,6% | ||
| Hungary | 237,851 | 217,108 | 98,739 | 112 | 18,622 | 7,8% | 45,5% | ||
| Iceland | 18,183 | 18,020 | 1,585 | 223 | 1,2% | 8,8% | |||
| Italy | 2,053,521 | 1,892,648 | 1,392,455 | 3,316 | 157,557 | 7,7% | 73,6% | ||
| Latvia | 167,743 | 163,229 | 128,923 | 110 | 3,987 | 2,4% | 79,0% | ||
| Lithuania | 359,484 | 354,166 | 307,873 | 207 | 4,728 | 1,3% | 86,9% | ||
| Luxembourg | 11,723 | 11,251 | 9,618 | 19 | 460 | 3,9% | 85,5% | ||
| Malta | 34,765 | 27,701 | 11,689 | 72 | 6,830 | 19,6% | 42,2% | ||
| Netherlands | 739,248 | 630,181 | 540,790 | 2,065 | 96,861 | 13,1% | 85,8% | ||
| Norway | 178,532 | 165,973 | 43,244 | 2,588 | 9,990 | 5,6% | 26,1% | ||
| Poland | 454,026 | 437,420 | 334,418 | 1,090 | 16,606 | 3,7% | 76,5% | ||
| Portugal | 297,236 | 235,897 | 121,766 | 1,023 | 60,321 | 20,3% | 51,6% | ||
| Slovakia | 25,202 | 23,504 | 14,254 | 167 | 1,531 | 6,1% | 60,6% | ||
| Slovenia | 27,722 | 21,685 | 16,993 | 3,383 | 2,803 | 10,1% | 78,4% | ||
| Spain | 1,912,500 | 1,668,171 | 739,929 | 7,565 | 191,909 | 10,0% | 44,4% | ||
| Sweden | 275,239 | 227,717 | 61,239 | 8,573 | 33,879 | 12,3% | 26,9% | ||
| Switzerland | 611,598 | 529,906 | 346,535 | 33,831 | 47,861 | 7,8% | 65,4% | ||
| Grand Total | 16,955,541 | 15,022,255 | 8,869,016 | 129,176 | 1,678,026 | 9,9% | 59,0% |