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Caution with visa agents or consultants
The Embassy strongly advises for caution when using the services of agents or consultants to prepare a visa application.
This website contains all official and necessary information to help you prepare a correct and complete file.
By preparing your file yourself, you maintain full control on the quality of the documents you’ll be presenting. You also assure yourself no false information or documentation is given.
The Embassy also wishes to emphasize they are not working together with any travel agent or consultant.
The visa section remains available for your questions at islamabad.visa@diplobel.fed.be.
Work permit fraud alert
Fraudulent work permit application portals
The Luxembourg authorities wish to inform all Visa Applicants of the existence of scam websites and so-called “agents” pretending to sell legitimate long-term national visas for employment in Luxembourg. Luxembourg does not cooperate with any agents for the application of visas. The Embassy wishes to clarify that applications for short-term and long-term visas can exclusively be processed through VFS/Gerry's. In case of any doubt, do not hesitate to contact the Belgian Embassy in Islamabad and/or the Luxembourg immigration authorities and/or visa authorities.
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Only trust official sources about immigration to Luxembourg.
The Luxembourg authorities wish to inform that no Luxembourg diplomatic authorities are present on the Pakistani territory. Luxembourg is only represented by the Belgian Embassy in Islamabad. Please carefully verify the information through the official websites (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (Luxembourg Government), Guichet.lu) and/or via the EU Immigration Portal.
There is a new procedure for the legalization of documents. For more details, please consult Apostille or legalisation on the website of the FPS Foreign Affairs.
Pakistani documents destined for the Belgian authorities must be legalised in Pakistan by means of an “Apostille”. An application for an apostille must be made to the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More information can be found on the Apostille website created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Pakistan.
The apostille of Pakistani official documents does not fall under the competence of the Belgian Embassy in Islamabad, but under that of the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After getting an apostille from the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, legalisation by the Belgian Embassy in Islamabad is longer necessary or possible, except for translations of official documents.(For more details, please consult Apostille or legalisation on the website of the FPS Foreign Affairs.
Official documents without "apostille" will be refused (however, for diplomas, degrees and transcripts, please see below).
Pakistan
Apostille/Legalisation as part of visa applications. All documents as part of a visa application file for long stay have to get an apostille from the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs first (however, for diplomas, degrees and transcripts, please see below). More information can be found on the Apostille website created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Pakistan. Once the visa applicant has all the necessary apostilles, he/she can submit a complete visa file with the application form and all the supporting documents.
Diplomas, degrees and transcripts submitted in the framework of a student visa application are always to be attested by the Ministry of Education, more specifically by the Higher Education Commission or the Inter Boards Coordination Commission. While these documents should in general not be attested by an apostille from the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the rules and procedures of the Belgian higher education institution concerning admission/enrolment must always be observed and might nevertheless require legalisation in the form of the apostille. It is up to the student visa applicant to enquire about these rules and procedures, as it is up to the higher education institution concerned to accept or not the documents put forward.
Afghanistan
We do not currently legalize any Afghan documents. Documents submitted as part of a visa application will be accepted in the state in which they are presented to us.
For visa applications, official documents must be written in French, Dutch or English. If your document is established in Urdu or any other foreign language, you must have it translated.
If your file contains documents that must be apostilled/legalized, you must do this first. Your visa application must contain the final and correct documents.
Schengen visas
- Start of the Visa Information System (VIS)
- General information
- Business visas
- Medical visas
- Private/Family visit visas
- Tourist visas
- Transit visas (airport)
- Visas short stay for citizens of Afghanistan
- Visas to accompany or join a citizen of the Union
Long term visas
- Family reunification visas
- Marriage or Cohabitation in Belgium
- Student visas
- Visas on the basis of a work permit
- Visas on the basis of a professional card
- Visas for researchers with a Hosting Agreement
Practical information
Competent authority for visa applications
All the information concerning visa applications for Belgium is available on the website of the Immigration Office of the FPS Home Affairs, which is the competent Belgian authority for access to the territory, stay, residence and removal of foreigners in Belgium.