The Luxembourg tourist visa is a Schengen short-stay visa (type C) for holidays, valid for up to 90 days in any 180-day period across the Schengen area, with Luxembourg as the main destination. You submit the file in person at VFS Global, at Chandigarh, Jalandhar or New Delhi among others, and the Embassy of Luxembourg in New Delhi decides.
The embassy decides within 15 calendar days of receiving an admissible file, up to 45 if more checks are needed, plus 1 to 4 days of transit each way. Apply at least 4 weeks ahead, or 6 weeks from March to June, and bring two original letters from your bank.
Do Indians need a visa for Luxembourg, and which one?
Yes. Indian passport holders need a Schengen short-stay visa, type C, to holiday in Luxembourg. It is not an e-visa: you file a paper application at a VFS Global centre and give your fingerprints and photo there. The visa allows up to 90 days in any 180-day period across the Schengen area.
The Embassy of Luxembourg in New Delhi decides. VFS's Luxembourg page says the embassy is competent for Indian citizens and for foreign nationals who are legal permanent residents of India, and that it returns processed passports to the visa application centre.
Luxembourg must be the main destination of the trip. That matters more here than for most countries, because few people spend a whole holiday in a country this size. If you are touring Luxembourg with Belgium, France or Germany, count the nights first. The section on choosing the right country, further down, explains the rule.
Luxembourg tourist visa at a glance
- VisaPaper file and biometrics at VFS
- Schengen short-stay visa, type C
- Longest stay
- 90 days in any 180-day period
- Who decides
- Embassy of Luxembourg, New Delhi
- Punjab centresJalandhar takes submissions on Tuesdays and Thursdays only
- Chandigarh and Jalandhar
- Visa feeVFS fee tab, 14 Oct 2026
- ₹9,900 adult, ₹4,950 child aged 6 to 11
- DecisionUp to 45 if more checks are needed
- 15 calendar days from receipt at the embassy
VFS Global Luxembourg India and the Embassy of Luxembourg in New Delhi, checked 14 Oct 2026
Where do applicants from Punjab apply?
At VFS Global, the embassy's official partner in India and Nepal. Its Luxembourg centres in India are in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune.
For Punjab, the two nearest centres work differently. Chandigarh accepts Luxembourg submissions Monday to Friday. Jalandhar opens Monday to Friday with a prior appointment, but its submission hours for Luxembourg are Tuesday and Thursday only, so pick your date with that in mind.
Three embassy rules about who comes to the centre:
- Tourists submit in person. For tourist visas, only the applicant may hand in the application. Representatives and travel agents are not allowed to submit it for you.
- Children come with a parent. All minors must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian when the application is submitted.
- Fingerprints are taken in person. Every Schengen applicant in India gives fingerprints and a digital photo. If you gave fingerprints for a Schengen visa within the last 59 months, they can be copied from your earlier file, although the embassy may collect them again if there is doubt. Children under 12 give no fingerprints.
VFS also offers "Visa at your doorstep", which lets you submit from a location you choose, for an extra charge per person. Track appointment dates on our Luxembourg appointment availability page.
A warning the embassy itself publishes: there is no visa lottery for Luxembourg, and no one can promise in advance that a visa will be granted. The embassy adds that visa fees are fixed amounts and that the only additional fee is VFS's service fee. If someone asks you for more, check with the embassy before paying.
Which documents depend on your situation?
The common checklist is printed further down. Luxembourg's tourist checklist is stricter than most on money, and what you show depends on your situation:
Salaried
- What Luxembourg asks to see
- Salary slips for the last 3 months, your employment contract, and an original covering letter on your employer's letterhead giving your position, length of service and the leave granted
Self-employed or business owner
- What Luxembourg asks to see
- An excerpt from the company register, GST registration or a similar document, plus a covering letter on your own business letterhead
Retired
- What Luxembourg asks to see
- Pension slips for the last 3 months, with the same bank letters and tax returns as everyone else
Student
- What Luxembourg asks to see
- An original covering letter from your school or college confirming the leave or vacation
Child under 18 travelling alone
- What Luxembourg asks to see
- Written consent of both parents or guardians with custody, certified by a notary, plus copies of their signed ID
Child travelling with one parent
- What Luxembourg asks to see
- Notarised written consent of the other parent or guardian, plus copies of the custodial parents' signed ID
Then come two papers that only your bank can produce, and that a printed statement does not replace:
- An account-status letter. An original letter from your bank on the status of your personal account over the last 3 months, carrying the name and signature of the branch manager.
- A credit-limit letter. An original letter from your bank stating the credit limit on your credit card.
Add income tax returns for at least 2 years as proof of tax paid, a hotel booking, and a complete travel programme with the itinerary, dates and places you will visit. Every document goes on A4 paper, in English or with an English translation by a sworn translator. The checklist ends by saying it is not exhaustive: the embassy can ask for more papers or call you for an interview.
Visiting relatives instead? Luxembourg uses a separate checklist with the host's formal obligation, the prise en charge. See the Luxembourg family visit visa guide.
How much is the Luxembourg visa fee for Indians?
The Schengen visa fee is €90 for adults and €45 for children aged 6 to 11, and VFS charges it in rupees: ₹9,900 for an adult and ₹4,950 for a child on its fee tab on 14 October 2026. Children under 6 and family members of EU, EEA and Swiss citizens pay no visa fee. The VFS service charge is ₹2,420 per application. The rupee fee is reset at every month end in line with the exchange rate, and the visa fee and VFS charges are not refunded if the visa is refused. Pay in cash or by Visa, MasterCard or RuPay card. Our filing fee is shown at the top of this page.
How long does it take, and when should you apply?
The embassy's rule is 15 calendar days for an admissible application, counted from the day the application reaches the embassy. Add transit: the file takes between 1 and 4 days each way between the VFS centre and New Delhi, depending on where you applied. If documents are missing, the application waits on hold until they arrive, and if more checks are needed, processing can stretch to 45 calendar days.
When to apply:
- Earliest: 6 months before the intended travel date.
- Latest: 15 calendar days before you travel. An application the embassy receives later than that can be declared inadmissible and sent back to VFS with your passport, unprocessed.
- Recommended: at least 4 weeks before travel, and at least 6 weeks in the peak season from March to June.
Plan backwards from those six weeks if you want a summer trip. With Jalandhar taking Luxembourg submissions only two days a week, the appointment itself can take a while to line up.
Why do Luxembourg visas get refused for Indian applicants?
Luxembourg uses the EU's standard refusal form with numbered reasons. These are the ones that catch holiday files from India, and how to avoid each.
A travel programme that does not hang together (reasons 2 and 10)
Luxembourg asks for a complete travel programme with the itinerary, dates and places to be visited, a hotel booking, and the transport into Luxembourg. When these disagree with each other or with the form, the purpose and conditions of the stay look unjustified or unreliable. Make every date match.
A bank statement instead of the bank letters (reason 3)
The checklist asks for two original letters from the bank, one on the account's status for 3 months signed by the branch manager and one on your credit card limit. A net-banking printout does not meet that, and a thin or recently topped-up account raises the means question anyway.
An employer letter that leaves out the leave (reason 13)
The covering letter must give your position, your length of service and confirm that adequate leave has been granted. A general NOC without those three facts leaves the officer unsure you have a job to return to.
Insurance that does not cover the whole stay (reason 16)
The policy must be valid in all Schengen countries for the entire stay, with at least €30,000 for accident, urgent medical attention, emergency hospital treatment and repatriation. VFS links the approved list of Indian insurers; use one on it.
Filing too close to departure
An application received less than 15 calendar days before travel can be returned as inadmissible without a decision. That is not a refusal, but you lose the appointment, the time and the non-refundable fees.
What each numbered reason means is set out on our Schengen refusal reasons page.
Tips for a stronger file
- Order the bank letters early. The branch manager has to sign the account-status letter, and both letters must be originals. Ask your branch a week before the appointment.
- Show the last leg. The transport reservation must include the intra-Schengen flight, train or bus into Luxembourg, since many trips from India arrive through another Schengen airport. If someone is driving you in, say so.
- No paid tickets needed. The embassy does not ask for confirmed air tickets; a reservation or booking is enough.
- Photo rules. One colour photo on a white background, under 6 months old, unedited and with no filter, pasted (not stapled) on the form. VFS adds that it should measure between 35 and 45 mm, show the face 30 to 36 mm from chin to top of hair, and carry your name and surname on the back.
- Old visas. Copies of every Schengen visa from the last 5 years help the officer see your travel record.
- Passport condition. Handwritten or non-machine-readable Indian passports issued after 1 April 2010 are not accepted, and the passport needs at least two blank pages.
- Courier. If you choose courier return, you sign a declaration that you have checked the name and address on the courier sticker. Check it properly.
Is Luxembourg the right country for your Schengen trip?
Only if it is the main destination. VFS's Luxembourg page sets out the rule: on a multi-country trip, apply to the country where you will stay longest or which is the main purpose of the stay; if every country gets the same number of nights, apply to the country of first entry.
So a week in Luxembourg City and the Moselle valley with a day in Trier is a Luxembourg file. A Benelux circuit with four nights in Brussels, three in Amsterdam and two in Luxembourg belongs with Belgium; see our Belgium tourist visa guide. Under the Visa Code, a consulate that is not competent must return the file, refund the visa fee and tell you which consulate is. The weeks are lost either way.
Once the visa is issued, you can travel across the Schengen area within the dates and days it allows. Luxembourg is one of the countries using the EU's Entry/Exit System, which registers your entries and exits electronically with fingerprints and a face image.
Can you extend a Luxembourg visa or appeal a refusal?
An extension is possible only in narrow cases. Under the EU Visa Code, a visa must be extended for force majeure or humanitarian reasons, free of charge, and may be extended for serious personal reasons, for a fee of €30. Applying for a longer holiday is not one of those reasons.
If you are refused, the refusal form gives the reason and tells you how to appeal and by when; the Visa Code requires every Schengen state to provide that information. A fresh application that answers the ticked reason is often faster than an appeal. Check the deadline on your letter with our refusal deadline tool, and for the rest of the country picture start at the Luxembourg country page.
Official sources
- VFS Global Luxembourg India: visa types, fees and processing
- VFS Global Luxembourg India: home and notices
- VFS Global Luxembourg India: visa application centres
- VFS Global Luxembourg India: Jalandhar centre
- Visa and immigration, Embassy of Luxembourg in New Delhi
- Applying for a Schengen visa, European Commission
- Visa Code, consolidated text (EUR-Lex)
- What is the EES?, Travel to Europe
