Public Schengen visa statistics
France Schengen visa statistics
France hub page for public Schengen visa application volume, issued visas, not-issued visas, and weighted rejection rates by applicant country.
Explore France Schengen visa statistics by applicant country and year, including 3,105,356 applications in 2025 and a 14.2% weighted rejection rate.
- Applications
- 3,105,356
- Visas issued
- 2,646,866
- Not issued
- 440,758
- Weighted rejection rate
- 14.2%
- Latest year
- 2025
- Confidence
- High confidence
How this rate is calculated
Weighted rejection rate is calculated as total not-issued uniform visa applications divided by total uniform applications for the rows on this page. It is historical context, not an official decision or a legal prediction.
Yearly trend
| Year | Applications | Not issued | Rejection rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4,010,604 | 629,996 | 15.7% |
| 2019 | 3,980,989 | 635,489 | 16.0% |
| 2020 | 658,247 | 125,579 | 19.1% |
| 2021 | 652,331 | 128,672 | 19.7% |
| 2022 | 1,918,515 | 408,876 | 21.3% |
| 2023 | 2,625,846 | 436,893 | 16.6% |
| 2024 | 3,072,728 | 481,139 | 15.7% |
| 2025 | 3,105,356 | 440,758 | 14.2% |
Related statistics
- China453,348 applications, 5.2% rejection rate
- Morocco295,272 applications, 9.9% rejection rate
- Algeria248,681 applications, 29.3% rejection rate
- Saudi Arabia234,331 applications, 3.8% rejection rate
- India204,184 applications, 15.2% rejection rate
- Russian Federation167,549 applications, 3.4% rejection rate