Application Form

For Portugal every customer needs to provide a signed printout from an online Schengen visa application form (VAF).
Therefore, each customer’s first needs to duly complete and print the online Schengen visa application form as follows:

• Click Schengen Visa Application form (PDF format)
• Duly complete the online visa application form (as per the passport’s details)
• Select File in Menu bar
• Select Print and confirm Printing

Once the online Schengen visa application form has been printed, then the customer needs to finish the remaining steps:

• Sign the completed visa application form in the designated places (1st signature at no.37, 2nd signature right under the disclaimer at the end of the VAF)
• Bring the signed visa application form with the supporting documents on his/her appointment day

Identify visa type

Eligibility

Customers must at least meet the following criteria in order to be eligible to submit a Schengen visa application:

1. holding a valid passport/travel document
2. holding a valid UK residence permit. In case the customers holds a short stay visa for the UK, C type visa (see example here), then a Schengen visa application can only be accepted, subject to analysis from the Mission, for Essential Travel (business, study, family reunification, health or humanitarian reasons, and EU Family Members accompanying the corresponding family member)
3. applying for a short stay visa: Tourist (including Minors), Visitor Family/Friends, Business, EEA/EU and Swiss national family member or Airport Transit

Jurisdiction Portugal Visa Application Centre in London

The following counties, please check Table, come under the jurisdiction of the Consulate of Portugal in London, i.e. customers residing in 1 of these counties can only submit their visa application at the VFS Portugal Visa Application Centre in London, which is outsourced representative for the Consulate of Portugal in London.

Please note that you must reside in one of the counties listed below to be eligible
to apply in the VFS Portugal Visa Application Centre in London

Bedfordshire	City of London	East Sussex	Hertfordshire	Isle of Ely	Norfolk	Surrey
Berkshire	Cornwall	Essex	Huntingdon and Peterborough	Isle of Scilly	Oxfordshire	Sussex
Bristol	Devon	Gloucestershire	Huntingdonshire	Isle of Wight	Soke of Peterborough	West Suffolk
Buckinghamshire	Dorset	Greater London	Isles of Bermudas	Kent	Somerset	West Sussex
Cambridge shire	East Suffolk	Hampshire	Isles of Canal (Jersey e Guernsey)	Middlesex	Suffolk	Wiltshire

Jurisdiction Portugal Visa Application Centre in Manchester or Edinburgh,

The following counties, please check table , come under the jurisdiction of the Consulate of Portugal in Manchester, i.e. customers residing in 1 of these counties can only submit their visa application at the VFS Portugal Visa Application Centres in Manchester or Edinburgh, which are outsourced representatives for the Consulate of Portugal in Manchester.

Please note that you must reside in one of the counties listed below to be eligible to apply in
the VFS Portugal Visa Application Centres in either Manchester or Edinburgh

Cheshire	Cleveland	Cumberland	Cumbria	Derbyshire	Durham (County Durham)	Greater Manchester
Hereford and Worcester	Herefordshire	Humberside	Lancashire	Leicestershire	Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire, Parts of Holland
Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven	Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey	Merseyside	North Humberside	North Yorkshire	Northampton shire	Northumberland
Nottinghamshire	Rutland	Shropshire	South Humberside	South Yorkshire	Staffordshire	Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire	West Yorkshire	Worcestershire	Yorkshire, East Riding	Yorkshire, West Riding	Northern Ireland:	Antrim
West Midlands	Westmorland	Yorkshire	Yorkshire, North Riding	Armagh/Down	Fermanagh/Tyrone	Londonderry