Official application route
Follow the Embassy of Spain's current instructions and the BLS International Beirut submission process.
Open Spain application route ↗
Detailed documents to prepare
Identity and application
- Passport: recognised, issued within the previous 10 years, valid for at least 3 months after planned Schengen departure, with at least 2 blank visa pages. Check national notices before booking.
- Application and photos: the signed country form, compliant recent photographs, and the originals/copies specified by the application centre.
Trip and stay
- Itinerary: round-trip reservation, any relevant inter-Schengen transport, a written purpose of travel and a coherent day-by-day schedule.
- Accommodation: hotel booking, prepaid lodging or property evidence; for a private visit, the destination’s valid host accommodation or invitation document.
- Medical insurance: cover valid throughout Schengen for the planned stay, with at least €30,000 for medical/emergency treatment, hospitalisation and repatriation.
Finances, ties and civil-status evidence
- Funds: evidence of sufficient, accessible funds, their history and lawful source. The Lebanon harmonised list asks for stamped bank movements for the previous 6 months or an accepted alternative; include any withdrawal terms or restrictions that affect access.
- Family register: an officially stamped, up-to-date extract.
- Return ties: documents showing your lawful income and situation in Lebanon—employment, business, study, family responsibilities or other concrete links that genuinely apply to you.
Documents that depend on your situation
- Employee: employment letter with hire date, role, salary and approved absence; last 3 payslips; CNSS registration.
- Company owner: company statutes, commercial registration and 3 months of company statements or corporate tax statements.
- Self-employed or freelancer: syndicate membership card or letter, tax statements and evidence of current business activity.
- Student or retired applicant: enrollment/attendance and scholarship evidence, or pension proof and other resource evidence, as applicable.
- Sponsored, unemployed or homemaker applicant: truthful status declaration, funding evidence and credible economic or social ties suited to the applicant and destination; use the destination’s sponsorship form where one is required.
- Minor: school certificate plus the normal identity documents; for one-parent or unaccompanied travel, the applicable consent, custody, travel-arrangement and parental-funding evidence.
Purpose-specific evidence
- Tourism: organised-tour or activity bookings, or a detailed itinerary with destinations and accommodation.
- Family or friends: invitation identifying the applicant and host, host address, reason and length of stay, host ID/passport or residence permit, and relationship proof where applicable.
- Business: official stamped/signed invitation with the inviting company’s contact and registration details, business purpose, dates and who pays; add sending-company employment or business-relationship evidence.
Spain-specific documents to add
- Official form, recent photograph, passport original and requested copies, including previous visas where requested.
- Detailed itinerary, reservations and the documents demonstrating employment, business, study or sponsorship.
- Use an English- or Spanish-language application form; confirm the Embassy’s current translation requirements for supporting papers.
Before you submit
Confirm the current fee, accepted document languages and category-specific rules through the official route. Published pages can change at different times.