Schengen visa · appointment index
Schengen visa appointment availability in the UK: the earliest slots we have seen
Every row on this page is a reading our own booking desk made: the earliest biometrics appointment showing on the operator's booking site (VFS Global, TLScontact, BLS International, GVC World, or the consulate itself for Poland, Luxembourg and Romania) when the desk looked, or the real appointment it booked for a customer that day. Each one is dated. Nothing is scraped and nothing is estimated, and a reading disappears after 21 days or once its slot has passed, so an empty row means we have no current reading, not that there are no slots. The desk logs every destination at least weekly.
No. 01 · Every destination
Earliest slot seen, by country
Listed in the order UK applicants ask about them. “Get it done” opens the done-for-you plan for that country: a £99 service fee, official fees paid at the centre.
| Destination | Centre | Earliest slot seen | Checked | Trend | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | TLScontactLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Italy | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Spain | BLS InternationalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Germany | TLScontactLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Netherlands | VFS GlobalLondon, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Greece | GVC WorldLondon, Manchester | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Portugal | VFS GlobalEdinburgh | a real appointment we booked for a customer | First reading, no trend yet | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself | |
| Switzerland | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Austria | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Belgium | TLScontactLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Czechia (Czech Republic) | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Hungary | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Croatia | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Poland | Polish ConsulateLondon | a real appointment we booked for a customer | First reading, no trend yet | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself | |
| Denmark | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Malta | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Sweden | VFS GlobalLondon, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Norway | VFS GlobalLondon, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Finland | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Iceland | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Luxembourg | Embassy of LuxembourgLondon | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Slovenia | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Slovakia | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Estonia | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Latvia | VFS GlobalLondon | a real appointment we booked for a customer | First reading, no trend yet | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself | |
| Lithuania | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Bulgaria | VFS GlobalLondon, Manchester, Edinburgh | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
| Romania | Consulate General of RomaniaLondon, Manchester | No current readinglog expected weekly | – | – | Get it done: £99How to book it yourself |
Times are London days. A reading is an observation on the day it was made, not a promise about today: slots are released by the operator without notice and move daily. The same readings feed the slot line on each country page and are published as JSON at /api/availability; the full dated record below is at /api/availability?history=1 and as a CSV download.
No. 02 · The record
Every reading we have logged, destination by destination
How we measure: a person on our booking desk opens the operator's own booking calendar for the destination, notes the earliest date showing (or that none were, or that the waiting list was open) and logs it the same day; a real appointment the desk books for a customer is logged the same way. Nothing is scraped, estimated or back-filled. The last 12 readings per destination are kept, newest at the top, and a reading stays in the record after it leaves the live table above. Download the whole record as CSV or JSON.
Italy · VFS Global1 reading, latest 28 September
| Checked | Seen | How |
|---|---|---|
| Earliest slot | Manual look at the booking site |
Netherlands · VFS Global1 reading, latest 28 September
| Checked | Seen | How |
|---|---|---|
| Waiting list open | Manual look at the booking site |
Portugal · VFS Global1 reading, latest today
| Checked | Seen | How |
|---|---|---|
| Earliest slot | A real appointment we booked |
Switzerland · VFS Global1 reading, latest 28 September
| Checked | Seen | How |
|---|---|---|
| Waiting list open | Manual look at the booking site |
Austria · VFS Global1 reading, latest 28 September
| Checked | Seen | How |
|---|---|---|
| Earliest slot | Manual look at the booking site |
Hungary · VFS Global1 reading, latest 28 September
| Checked | Seen | How |
|---|---|---|
| Earliest slot | Manual look at the booking site |
Poland · Polish Consulate1 reading, latest 1 November
| Checked | Seen | How |
|---|---|---|
| Earliest slot | A real appointment we booked |
Latvia · VFS Global1 reading, latest yesterday
| Checked | Seen | How |
|---|---|---|
| Earliest slot | A real appointment we booked |
Romania · Consulate General of Romania2 readings, latest 24 September
| Checked | Seen | How |
|---|---|---|
| Earliest slot | A real appointment we booked | |
| Earliest slot | Manual look at the booking site |
No. 03 · How to read this
What each column means
- Earliest slot seen
- The first bookable day on the operator's calendar when the desk looked, or the day of a real appointment it booked for a customer. A booking is the strongest evidence there is: a slot existed on that day, and no one had to type anything.
- No slots showing
- The calendar showed no appointment at all on the day of the reading. That is a dated observation, not a forecast: operators release slots without notice, and a calendar that is empty today can have dates tomorrow.
- Waiting list open
- The operator runs a waiting list or allocation queue for that country (TLScontact for Germany, and for France at every UK centre: London and Manchester since 1 August 2026, Edinburgh since 11 September 2026), so there is no calendar and no date to see: registration was open when the desk looked, and the embassy issues the date from the list.
- No current reading
- Nobody on the desk has logged this destination in the last 21 days, or the slot we saw has now passed. We would rather show nothing than a stale date. The desk logs every destination at least weekly, so the row fills in.
- Checked
- The London day the desk made the reading.
- Trend
- This reading against the one about a week before it, when we have one. “Nearer” means the earliest date is earlier than it was; “further out” means later. A first reading has no trend yet.
- Centre
- The centre the reading was made at. Most countries can be lodged at any of their UK centres, so the desk checks all of them, and the country's appointment page lists the alternatives.
No. 04 · What we do with it
The desk books the first slot that fits
These readings are a by-product of the work. Our booking desk checks each operator's calendar every working day for the customers whose applications it is preparing, and books the first appointment that fits their dates. On the done-for-you service that booking is made within three working days of your complete file, subject to availability, or the service fee comes back: the booking promise in our terms sets out exactly what that covers.
We never sell a slot or charge for one.Booking is free on every operator's site, and our £99 is for the preparation and booking work, with the consulate fee and the centre fee paid by you at the centre, never marked up. We do not hold slots, we do not run bots, and we do not deal with resellers: consulates have voided appointments booked that way, and a patient routine of manual checks on the official system beats them anyway.
When a destination shows no slots at all, the plan step says so before you pay, and the booking promise pauses for that destination until they reappear. Where the operator runs a waiting list, “booked” means registered on it within the same three working days, and we tell you the date the moment the embassy issues it. Nothing on this page is a guarantee of a date, and the consulate alone decides the visa.
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Cite this data
This index is free to quote and cite, in whole or in part, with a link to this page as the source. Please keep the date of the reading with the figure: a slot date without its “checked” day misleads. The data is also published as a machine-readable JSON feed and described in the page's schema.org Dataset markup. Published by WayaNerd Ltd, the company behind findmyvisa.