Visa for Dependent Mother

a) 90 days is the max duration of short stay (tourism or family/friends visit) visa. Getting a full 90 days Schengen visa for a mother in law is not difficult. Normally they are approved, if you have enough documentation to prove you (sponsor) or the traveler has enough means to support the stay and expenses for the full duration of visit, and the visitor will go back to the home country after the short stay visa duration.

b) After staying here on short term visa, she must go back to India (home country - which she holds the passport of) to apply for another visa to make another visit to EU. I have heard there is a cooling off period between two visits. (As per Schengen visa code, the definition of “short stay” is a stay of "90 days in any 180 days period".  This  means  that  the total duration  of  stay  is  of  maximum  90  days,  in  any period of 180 days. As per this definition, once a person completes 90 days stay, he/she must wait another 90 days to make a new application. I may not have understood it correctly. You may check with VFS (http://vfs-be-in.com) for more info, or read DOFI website. It is not possible to have 10 year or so multiple entry short stay visa (like the B1/B2 in the US).

c) In my knowledge, family reunion is limited only to spouse and children for non-EU citizens. So, my answer is No.

d) No. This is not possible.


DOFI website: https://dofi.ibz.be/sites/dvzoe/EN/Pages/home.aspx
Short Stay visa: https://dofi.ibz.be/sites/dvzoe/EN/Appl … iends.aspx
Family Re-Union: https://dofi.ibz.be/sites/dvzoe/EN/Appl … ining.aspx


You cannot apply together. Well, technically you can, but your mother's visa application must be a tourist visa. You can apply for a family visit only after you arrive here. Once you arrive here, if you  have to invite her for a short stay, you must show at least 3 months of stable income (salary, bank statements, etc) and that is also the time you need to get your residence permit, etc sorted out here in Belgium.

Previous post: read "mother in law" as mother typo.

Thanks a lot for response Sir.

Is it advisable to maintain good balance in my mother's bank account(say some 2 lakhs INR) and some fixed deposits
- please note till now her account is in very low profile I'm about to transfer amount and open FD

From now I have three months time to apply visa for her will the bank balance and FD provides weightage for 90 day tourist visa/multiple entry visa.

Anyhow I will be sponsor for her only my bank balance matters.

Also is it okay if i book a return ticket for her say some 80th day from date of arrival.