Romania Visa Appointment in the UK (2026): eViza, Consulate

TL;DR

Romania runs no UK visa centre. You complete the application on Romania's own eViza portal, send the file for validation, and book an appointment only once consular staff mark it Valid. Lodging is in person at the Consulate General of Romania in London or in Manchester, whichever covers your region, where you sign the form in front of the officer and pay the visa fee in pounds (EUR 90 under the Visa Code, £78 for a short-stay visa): cash only at Manchester, card at London. There is no centre fee, and the passport is collected in person on a second visit.

Schengen short-stay visa key facts, 2026

Schengen short-stay visa (Type C)	2026
Visa fee (adult)	€90
Visa fee (child 6 to 11)	€45
Visa fee (child under 6)	Free
Maximum stay	90 days in any rolling 180-day period
Standard processing	15 calendar days (up to 45 in some cases)
Travel insurance, minimum cover	€30,000
Passport	Issued within 10 years; valid 3+ months beyond your trip
Member states	29 countries

How the Romania appointment really works

To get a Romania visa appointment in the UK you do not start with a booking site. You start with the application. Romania takes UK applications through its own eViza portal, and the post that covers your region, the Consulate General in London or in Manchester, opens dates only to files that consular staff have already checked and marked Valid. Manchester's area is Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham, North Yorkshire, and Yorkshire and the Humber; everyone else should expect London. No outsourced visa centre takes Romania's UK applications, so nobody sits between you and the consulate, and there is no centre service fee on top of the visa fee. The trade-off is the order: the file comes first and the date second, so a file that keeps coming back for corrections keeps you out of the calendar.

The seven steps

1. Get informed on the portal and check whether you need a visa at all.
2. Fill in the application online and attach your documents. A working email address matters, because the portal sends the decision to it, and a saved but unsent application is kept for 30 days.
3. Send the file for validation. Staff mark it Valid or send a request for additional information, which you answer and resend until it passes.
4. Schedule the appointment, which the portal allows only once the file is Valid, from the slots your post offers. The post follows the UK region of residence you give on eViza: London or Manchester.
5. Lodge in person with every supporting document in original and in copy.
6. Sign and pay at the counter. You sign the application form in front of the consular officer and pay the visa fee there, in pounds: cash only at Manchester, debit or credit card at London. Not paying makes the application inadmissible.
7. Collect the passport in person after the decision reaches your email and your portal account.

Romania at a glance

Our booking desk logs the earliest date it sees on each consulate's calendar, London and Manchester, exactly as it does for a visa centre. When there is a current reading, the availability line shows at the top of this page; when there is not, we say nothing.

Getting your files under the portal's limits

The upload rules are firm, and they are where most applications stall:

• 2 MB or under for each supporting document, in jpeg, jpg, tif, png, bmp, txt, rtf or pdf, with Latin characters only in filenames.
• 0.5 MB or under for the photo slot, far smaller than a phone camera produces.
• Documents in other languages: a translation into Romanian or English by an authorised translator is recommended.
• One application per person, including children travelling on a parent's passport.
• Do not use the browser's back and forward buttons inside the form.

A passport scan almost never lands under 2 MB on its own, so run it through the compressor before you upload, and use the bundler to order the set against the Schengen document list.

When to lodge, and what happens next

Lodge at least 2 weeks before your estimated departure (the Manchester consulate's own page puts the latest admissible day at 15 calendar days before the visit) and not more than 3 months before it. That window is tighter than the 6 month maximum general Schengen pages quote, so a trip booked far ahead waits before the file can go in. The decision period runs from the day you present in person: 15 calendar days as standard and up to 45 in some cases, which the Romania processing time guide sets out in full.

On the day, bring originals and copies of everything, and expect fingerprints to be taken unless yours are already on file from a recent Schengen application. The fee is paid at the counter in pounds. The Manchester consulate's page says consular fees are paid only in cash at the counter; the London consulate's fee page says debit or credit card, with cash only in exceptional cases. Bring the amount shown on your appointment confirmation in the form your post takes. For the wider picture, read the Romania visa from the UK guide and the overview of getting a Schengen appointment in the UK.

If eViza shows no Romania slots

Romania's portal lets you schedule only once consular staff have marked the file Valid, so until then there is no calendar to be empty: the file comes first and the date second. Our booking desk gets the file validated first, then checks the portal every working day and books the first date your post offers. Dates are released without notice, and you cannot shop between the two posts: eViza assigns your file to the Consulate General in London or in Manchester from the UK region where you live. Our appointment availability index lists the earliest Romania date we have actually seen and the day we saw it: our own dated reading, never scraped, withdrawn once it is three weeks old. The done-for-you service is a £99 service fee, the visa fee paid at the consulate in pounds with no centre fee on top, and we book within three working days of your complete file, subject to availability, or the fee comes back (our booking promise). For Romania, booking means scheduling the appointment on the consulate's eViza portal, which offers dates only once consular staff have marked the file Valid, so we send your file for validation the day it is complete and take the first date your post, London or Manchester, offers.

If you would rather not manage it

Our done-for-you Schengen service completes the eViza application with you, builds the document pack to the consulate's list, compresses every file to the portal's limits and books the appointment once the file is validated, for a £99 service fee; you attend the consulate, sign the form and pay the visa fee there.