errors on my schengen visa

lexy · Post by **lexy** » Sat May 31, 2008 11:24 am

hi there

i've just been granted a schengen visa for spain. i'm going to barcelona in about 12 days.

i picked up my passport from the agency yesterday, only to realise that my name has been spelt incorrectly (i'm not to concerned about this, it's a small mistake and quite common .. they've made this mistake on plane tickets and boarding passes and it's been fine)
but the passport number on the visa is also wrong, and it's not just one number out, it's a completely different passport number.
on a shengen visa i've had for france, the passport number was out too, but only by one number, incidentally.

i called the agency for advice as soon as i noticed, but i was on hiold for ages then i had to go to work, so i never got to ask them about it.

now it's saturday and they don't open til monday and i'm really worried about travelling on this visa.

can anybody help?

SMOOTH OPERATOR · Post by **SMOOTH OPERATOR** » Sat May 31, 2008 11:46 am

ring the agency again or try to contact the embassy!!!

lexy · Post by **lexy** » Sat May 31, 2008 11:58 am

i will, but they are not open on saturdays!

i am hoping someone can give me some information as i am panicking here...

Post by **Directive/2004/38/EC** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:39 am

When are you travelling?
Are you a family member of an EU citizen?

lexy · Post by **lexy** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 12:42 pm

i am travelling on 11 june.

i am not a family member of an EU citizen, i am south african in london on a WHV

Post by **Directive/2004/38/EC** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:11 pm

What do you mean you picked up the passport "at an agency"? Not from the Spanish embassy?

I would contact the Spanish embassy as soon as possible. They should hopefully be able to correct their mistake.

AxeZ · Post by **AxeZ** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:28 pm

Directive/2004/38/EC wrote:What do you mean you picked up the passport "at an agency"? Not from the Spanish embassy?

I believe it is one of the standard procedures for non eu citizen.
If he want's to visit touristic some EU country he has an option of leaving the paperwork for Visa to travel agency.
Travel agency applies to embassy on his behalf so he doesn't have to bother.

lexy · Post by **lexy** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:39 pm

yeah i used www.theschengenoffice.com to do the visa for me.

Post by **Directive/2004/38/EC** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:21 pm

So what have you found out about your visa?

lexy · Post by **lexy** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:09 pm

i returned my passport to the agency and they said that the spanish embassy have been making a lot of mistakes recently. including putting the wrong photo on somebody's visa

i was told that up to 4 spelling mistakes are allowed. and that the misspelling of my name shouldn't be a problem, it's only one extra letter and a common mistake.

the passport number could be a problem because it's entirely different to mine (not just a typo)

so apparently the embassy only has appointments on thursdays and they will take mine in on thursday to make sure they fix it on the same day.
i took new copies of flights and accommodation details in so that they can see i am traveling next week and that this is urgent.

i will update on thursday when i get my passport back.

the woman at the agency seemed to think that it would be fine.

Samridh · Post by **Samridh** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 10:18 am

Hi , I got my spanish schengen visa and there is a typo with my name like instead of Sam**** it's Sma*** also with my passport no it's the same instead of 891*** they have put on visa 981*** would that be a problem
Thanks

toofan · Post by **toofan** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 1:46 pm

better to get intouch and ask them to rectify the mistakes as name and passport number are wrong .

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