Pursuant to Article 31 of the Visa Code, a Member State may require its central authorities to be informed of visas issued by the consulates of other Member States to nationals of specific third countries or to specific categories of such nationals.
Such information may not be requested for airport transit visas.
The following list sets out the third countries and specific categories concerned.
Where a third country is listed, this indicates that at least one Member State requires ex post information.
Third countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Jordan, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Categories of persons: Palestinians, refugees, stateless persons