Armenians most often denied a Schengen visa by Germany

July 30, 2018 - 11:09 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - In the CIS space, citizens of Armenia are most often denied a Schengen visa by Germany, Deutsche Welle reports.

Between 2008 and 2017, Armenian citizens filed 120,490 applications for German tourist visas, with 8.4% of all the applicants receiving rejections.

Things are going pretty much the same way in neighboring Azerbaijan, as well as in Central Asian countries of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. At the same time, the report says, the statistics of rejections in the Schengen visa have practically remained unchanged in the last decade.

The German Foreign Ministry failed to provide specific reasons for refusals, limiting themselves to general wording.

The Ministry expl...