Schengen visa: what is the difference between sponsorship and private accommodation?
When you are going to apply for a Schengen visa for the Netherlands for a foreign guest, you may have to deal with the terms guarantee and accommodation. What is this and what is the difference?
A guarantee means that you provide a financial guarantee for a foreign visitor requiring a visa who does not have sufficient financial means of his/her own.
A accommodation means that a visa-required or non-visa-required foreigner stays with you during his stay. So stay in your house. A form for the provision of accommodation has the previously widely used invitation letter to replace.
When is a guarantee necessary?
A guarantee is required if the visitor has insufficient income. Your visitor must be able to demonstrate that he has at least € 55 per day to spend (per person), for all days he stays in the Netherlands. If he/she is unable to do so, you can act as guarantor under certain conditions. A condition for being a guarantor is that the guarantor has sufficient and sustainable income. If you don't have that, you can ask someone else to act as guarantor.
What do you guarantee?
A guarantee means that you declare to guarantee the costs that a foreign national may incur in the Schengen area. You have to think of, for example, the medical costs. That is precisely why it is important that the guarantor provides a good medical travel insurance. It is best to take out this with a reliable insurer in the Netherlands, so you protect yourself because the guarantor is financially responsible.
Warranty text
The text below is used by the government on the guarantee form. You declare, by signing this form, that you agree with these provisions:
I (the undersigned) hereby declare that I guarantee the payment of the costs of the stay, medical care and repatriation caused by the person mentioned under 4. for a period of 5 years or as much shorter as the stay of the counting from the entry of that person into the Schengen territory, up to a maximum of € 10.000 per year, insofar as these costs would otherwise be borne by the State and/or public bodies. The guarantee ends when it can be adequately demonstrated that the person referred to under 4. has left the Schengen area (such as an exit stamp affixed by a Schengen state or an entry stamp affixed by an authority responsible for border control in the country of origin).
Private accommodation
Does your guest have enough money to stay in the Netherlands and is he or she staying with you? Then a guarantee is not necessary. In that case, you only request private accommodation via the proof of guarantee and/or private accommodation form. Please note that your guest must be able to prove that he/she has sufficient financial means when applying for a visa.
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