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Germany: Top Choice for Multiple-Entry Schengen Visa in 2024

by Kamran Ahmed

June 13, 2024

Germany Multiple-Entry Schengen Visa

key takeaways

Germany has the highest rate of multiple entry visa issuance.
Other countries with high rates of multiple-entry visa issuance are also Austria, Italy, and Switzerland.

The best country to apply for a German Schengen visa is Germany, which is the greatest option for travellers hoping to receive a short-term visa that allows them to enter Schengen Area countries many times.

Newly released Schengen Visa Statistics indicate that 90.4 of the visas issued by German consulates in 2023 were multiple-entry, indicating that Germany continues to have high multiple-entry visa issuance rates despite being the second most popular destination in the Schengen Area.

This is only 0.2 percentage points lower than in 2022, when 90.6 per cent of short-term visas issued by Germany were for entering the Schengen Area more than once.

More precisely, last year, out of the 1,459,560 visa applications it received, Germany granted a positive response to 1,233,561 of them. 1,115,424 of the granted visas were multiple entry.

Other Schengen Countries With High Issuance Rates of Multiple-Entry Visas

Data from 2023 shows that, aside from Germany, a number of other Schengen Area nations have multiple-entry visa issuance rates that are greater than the EU average.

Austria comes in second, despite being far away from Germany, with 75.7% of the visas it issued being for multiple entries. During that year, 229,613 applications for Schengen visas were received by Austrian consulates abroad; 194,273 of those applications were granted. Of the latter, 147,021 had multiple entries.

Although it was placed fourth, the nation had a comparable approval percentage of 74.9% out of 125,275 visas issued in 2022.

The third country with the highest share of MEVs in 2023 was Italy, which granted multiple entry visas to 70.2 per cent of beneficiaries (680,794 out of 970,073).

The list goes on as follows:

Switzerland – 69.1 per cent out of 506,499 of applications approved
Greece – 66.1 per cent of 521,825 of applications approved
Croatia – 62 per cent of 29,785 visas granted

On the other hand, Slovenia, which ranked second with a rate of 81.6 per cent rate of multiple-entry visas issuance and Estonia which ranked third with 81.3 per cent in 2022, had quite lower MEV issuance rates in 2023.

While Slovenia’s rate was 59.7 per cent, Estonia’s rate was 60 per cent.

Germany’s Rejection Rate Is Also Under the EU Average

Aside from being the top country with the highest share of multiple entry visas issued, Germany is a country with a relatively low rejection rate.

In 2023, its visa authorities rejected only 14.3 per cent of visa applications received, which is lower than the Schengen average of 16 per cent. The rate of rejected visas was even lower than in 2022 when Germany rejected 16.2 per cent of applications. In the same year, the overall Schengen rejection rate was 17.9 per cent.