Draft your Schengen visa documents with AI.
SchengenDoc uses an LLM tuned to the EU Visa Code and 29 consulate checklists to draft the cover letter, day-by-day itinerary, applicant profile and personalised checklist your file needs. You answer four short steps; you download a consulate-formatted PDF.
What the AI does for you
- Drafts the formal cover letter
Structured paragraph by paragraph in the register consulates expect, with the verbatim Article 15 insurance clause and return assurance.
- Builds your day-by-day itinerary
One row per day with named hotels, transport, and the nights-per-country block officers cross-check for jurisdiction.
- Composes your applicant profile
Employment, ties to home, and travel history summarised in the layout reviewers scan for first.
- Generates a personalised checklist
Every supporting document the file needs, with the country-specific quirks flagged for your situation.
What it does not do — on purpose
We are explicit about the boundary because consulates are. The official Schengen visa form is filled in by the applicant; AI drafts the supporting narrative around it.
- Fill in the official government visa application form (you submit that through the consulate's portal).
- Book your flights, hotels, or visa appointment.
- Sell, broker, or issue travel insurance.
- Guarantee that your visa will be approved — final decisions belong to the consular officer.
Three steps to a consulate-ready file
- 1Answer four short steps
Profile, trip, finances, summary. Roughly three minutes of typing — no uploads, no scans.
- 2AI drafts and validates the file
We generate the cover letter, itinerary, profile and checklist, then run deterministic validators that force-insert the verbatim Article 15 insurance clause and return assurance.
- 3Download a consulate-formatted PDF
Single-source-of-truth dates and addresses across every document, delivered instantly on payment.
What you get
We calculate whether you actually meet the statutory threshold
For every long-stay route we hold the published requirement, the dependant uplift and the source it comes from. Your visa file converts your declared income into that requirement's currency, prints the arithmetic, and says plainly when the margin is thin or you fall short — before a consulate does. Everything below is generated by the live product.
Generated by the live product for a sample applicant: Arjun Mehta, Indian national · Portugal D7 (passive income / retirement) · spouse accompanying · declared EUR 1,450/month.
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL MEANS — Portugal D7 (passive income / retirement)
Applicant: Arjun Mehta (Indian national)
Route: PT-D7 — Portugal D7 (passive income / retirement)
Legal basis: Lei n.º 23/2007 (Regime Jurídico de Entrada, Permanência, Saída e Afastamento de Estrangeiros), Article 58 and Article 61
Accompanying family: 1 spouse
ASSESSMENT AGAINST THE PUBLISHED THRESHOLD
Requirement: EUR 1,380/month (100% of the Portuguese national minimum wage (RMMG) EUR 920 + spouse EUR 460). Declared: EUR 1,450/month. Margin: 5.1%.
WARNING - THIN MARGIN (under 10% above requirement)
RISK NOTES
- The declared income exceeds the requirement by only 5.1%. A small drop in income, an exchange-rate movement, or a dependant uplift the consulate applies differently would put the application below the threshold. Evidence a savings buffer (a bank certificate covering at least 12 months of the shortfall risk) or add a higher-income co-applicant.
HOW THE MEANS ARE EVIDENCED
- Bank statements for the last 6 months, showing the income credits relied on.
- Income documentation for the category (contracts, pension, rental or dividend statements as applicable).
- Savings or investment evidence held in addition to monthly income, to absorb an income or exchange-rate movement.
SOURCES
- Threshold: 100% of the Portuguese national minimum wage (RMMG) — https://vistos.mne.gov.pt/en/national-visas/necessary-documents/residence-visa-for-retired-persons-or-persons-living-off-their-income (verified 2026-08-19)
- Dependant uplift: 50% of the RMMG per adult dependant, 30% per child
- Application form: Pedido de Visto Nacional (national visa application form, VFS/consular) — Pedido de Visto Nacional, the consular national-visa application form issued under Lei n.º 23/2007 and Decreto Regulamentar n.º 84/2007; obtained from the Portuguese consulate or VFS centre handling the application.
Requirements verified 2026-08-19. Confirm current requirements with the Portugal consulate or embassy responsible for your place of residence before submission.
SchengenDoc prepares application documents and verifies figures against published requirements. It does not provide legal or immigration advice.
Arjun Mehta
Indian National
RE: NATIONAL LONG-STAY VISA (TYPE D) — PORTUGAL D7 (PASSIVE INCOME / RETIREMENT) — ARJUN MEHTA
Dear Consular Officer,
I respectfully apply for a national long-stay visa (Type D) under the Portugal D7 (passive income / retirement) category, with the intention of establishing legal residence in Portugal and completing the post-arrival registration required of me.
Requirement: EUR 1,380/month (100% of the Portuguese national minimum wage (RMMG) EUR 920 + spouse EUR 460). Declared: EUR 1,450/month. Margin: 5.1%.
The declared income exceeds the requirement by only 5.1%. A small drop in income, an exchange-rate movement, or a dependant uplift the consulate applies differently would put the application below the threshold. Evidence a savings buffer (a bank certificate covering at least 12 months of the shortfall risk) or add a higher-income co-applicant.
Travel/health insurance valid in Portugal covering medical care and repatriation for the initial visa period, until enrolment in the Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS) after AIMA registration. The insurance certificate meeting this requirement is enclosed with this application.
I have secured 12-month registered lease, Rua da Boavista 118, Lisbon, and undertake to comply with all obligations of Portugal immigration law.
Respectfully,
Arjun Mehta
Generated by the live product for a sample applicant: Arjun Mehta, Indian national · Portugal D7 (passive income / retirement) · spouse accompanying · declared EUR 1,450/month.
Generated by the live product for a sample applicant: Arjun Mehta, Indian national · Portugal D7 (passive income / retirement) · spouse accompanying · declared EUR 1,450/month.
IDENTITY & APPLICATION
- Pedido de Visto Nacional (national visa application form, VFS/consular), completed and signed on every required page
- Passport — Valid for at least 3 months beyond the validity of the requested visa, issued within the last 10 years, with two blank pages
- Completed and signed national long-stay visa application form — issued in Portugal
- Passport bio-page copy plus all pages containing stamps or visas — issued in your country of residence
- +2 more
FINANCIAL EVIDENCE
- Bank statements for the last 6 months showing the balance and regular income credits relied on — issued within the last 1 month; issued in your country of residence
- Portuguese tax number (NIF) and proof of a Portuguese bank account — issued in Portugal
- Evidence of the passive income relied on (pension statements, rental contracts, dividend or annuity statements) covering the last 6 months — sworn translation into the official language of Portugal; issued within the last 3 months; issued in your country of residence
- Financial-means statement (included in this kit) — Requirement: EUR 1,380/month (100% of the Portuguese national minimum wage (RMMG) EUR 920 + spouse EUR 460).
- +1 more
ACCOMMODATION & HOUSING
- Proof of accommodation for the intended residence (signed lease, notarised property deed, or formal hosting attestation) — issued within the last 3 months; issued in Portugal
HEALTH INSURANCE & MEDICAL
- Health insurance — Travel/health insurance valid in Portugal covering medical care and repatriation for the initial visa period, until enrolment in the Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS) after AIMA registration.
CRIMINAL RECORD & CIVIL STATUS
- Criminal record certificate from the country of nationality and from every country lived in for more than 1 year — apostille required (Hague Convention); sworn translation into the official language of Portugal; issued within the last 3 months; issued in your country of residence
- Signed authorisation for AIMA to consult Portuguese criminal records (separate from, and not a substitute for, the home-country certificate) — issued in Portugal
DEPENDANT DOCUMENTS
- Health insurance [spouse] — accompanying spouse, on the same terms: Travel/health insurance valid in Portugal covering medical care and repatriation for the initial visa period, until enrolment in the Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS) after AIMA registration.
- Completed and signed national long-stay visa application form [spouse] — issued in Portugal
- Passport bio-page copy plus all pages containing stamps or visas [spouse] — issued in your country of residence
- Two recent biometric passport photographs (35x45 mm, ICAO-compliant, white background) [spouse] — issued within the last 6 months; issued in your country of residence
- +8 more
We compute the statutory requirement for your route, convert your declared income, and print the margin — including when it is too thin to be safe
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Frequently asked questions about AI visa applications
- Does AI submit my visa application for me?
- No. SchengenDoc drafts the supporting documents consulates expect — cover letter, day-by-day itinerary, applicant profile, and a personalised checklist. You still submit the official application form yourself through the consulate, VFS, TLScontact or BLS centre with biometrics.
- What is an 'AI visa application' exactly?
- It is the use of large language models to generate the narrative documents around a visa application — the cover letter, the itinerary, the supporting profile — from structured inputs. The official government form is not AI-generated; it is filled in by the applicant through the consulate's portal.
- Can AI guarantee my visa will be approved?
- No tool can. Decisions are made by consular officers under Article 32 of the EU Visa Code. What AI can do is make sure your documents are internally consistent, complete, in the right format, and free of the common mistakes that drive refusals under Annex VI codes 2 and 8.
- Is using AI-generated documents allowed by Schengen consulates?
- Yes. Consulates assess whether the facts in your file are accurate and consistent, not whether the prose was written by a human or generated. Every consulate already receives template-based letters from travel agencies; the only requirement is that the contents are true.
- How is this different from ChatGPT?
- A general chatbot does not know the EU Visa Code, the jurisdiction rule, the per-country nightly budget benchmarks, or the verbatim insurance and return clauses consulates scan for. SchengenDoc is built around those constraints — and validators force-insert mandatory legal language so nothing is missed.