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How To Get A One Year Visa For Sport Reasons
Visa Conditions
The following establish the procedures & conditions for issuing visas to Idsoccer clients - footballers who are interested in or play in an amateur Greek club.
The procedures and restrictions for providing visas to Idsoccer clients - footballers interested in participating in football trials or playing in an amateur Greek club - are outlined below.
This is for you if you have ever wondered how to get a visa and enter Europe for sporting purposes.
Here's what you will be able to get:
a. a one-year national visa for Greece (type D | A.2.7) for stays of up to one (1) season on Greece.
Visa will allow you to obtain:
a1. a temporary residence permit in Greece for a period of one (1) season
a2. a season's playing card from a Greek amateur club
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How To Get A One Year National Visa (A.2.7)
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To play football in Greece, all non-EU players must have a residency permit.
There are two distinct scenarios:
1. The game of professional football.
Assume you entered Greece on a short-stay visa C (often known as a tourist visa, which allows you to visit Greece and the other 25 Schengen area European nations) and a professional team is interested in adding you to their roster.
The club will offer you a contract (a job), cover all of your residency permit costs, and you will be one of their players in 3 - 4 days.
There is not much to say about it.
You made it, and now you have a professional status.
Congratulations!!!
2. Football, both amateur and semi-professional. Assume you arrived in Greece on a short-term visa C and, as a result of our trials, an amateur or semi-professional club wishes to add you to their roster. They will not be able to transfer you, unfortunately.
You should enter Greece with a different sort of visa, according to immigration rules (as of July 20, 2021).
A long-stay visa D (also known as a national visa, which lasts one year and allows you to visit just Greece) allows you to apply for a residence permit in Greece.
Now you must either return to your own country and apply for a visa D or quit the case and return home.
The same rule applies to all non-EU footballers who do not require a visa to enter Greece. A Canadian or American citizen, for example, can enter Greece without a visa.
He is unable to obtain a residence permit because he does not have a valid visa D.
He must return to his home country and apply for a visa D.
So, how do you pick the best visa for you?
The response varies. It all depends on your plans and objectives.
Allow me to assist you with this:
1. Finding a professional club as an academy or low-league footballer would be incredibly tough. The majority of the participants in our trials enter Greece on a visa D and do not take any risks.
1a. The benefit of a visa D is that you can try out for a professional team while still having a backup plan. To locate a club in the lowest tier. If you are unable to succeed at a professional level.
1b. The drawback of visa D is that you are unable to go to another EU nation and join a club there. It is a national visa that restricts your travel in Greece.
However, if you are able to obtain this visa, which leads to a resident permit, you will be able to freely travel around Europe (NOT to play football there. Same rule apply at the destination country).
2. There is just one alternative for individuals who want to enter Greece on a short-term visa C or without a visa at all.
To achieve professional success.
2a. One of the benefits of having a visa C is that you can go to another EU nation and join a club there.
2b. The downside of visa C is that you can only apply for a professional club trial if you have no other options.
If you can not make it at the professional level, you will not be able to play for a lower division club.
A piece of advice: You must first pick which visa type best suits your needs before traveling to Greece. Before taking any action, consider your options. Bad decisions cost money and time (both of which are valuable in football).
Required Steps Concerning National Visa
Documents Required by the Player:
1. A valid passport - Make sure your passport is valid for at least three (3) months after you leave Greece.
2. A color photograph (2x2 inches) that must be pasted to the application form.
Photographs affixed to applications will be refused.
3. Completed National Visa application form - available on the website of the Greek embassy,
4. A medical fitness certificate stating that the applicant is free of any disease that could endanger public health, as defined by international standards and the World Health Organization, as well as any other contagious, infectious, or parasitic diseases that would necessitate the implementation of public health protection measures.
5. a certificate of immunization against Covid-19,
6. Check for a criminal record - this month,
7. Certificate of Birth,
8. 160 USD/EUR (cash) - visa application cost paid at the embassy
Important: Your country's ministry of foreign affairs should stamp your medical certificate, birth certificate, and criminal record.
Greece’s Bilateral Relations Website
After you have paid your trial fee:
9. you should send a notarized copy of a stamped copy of a written agreement of collaboration for transcription of an amateur club athlete to us.
10. the amateur club will send you approval from the Greek Sports Federation for this sport, stating that the athlete has the right to join the Sports Association's power & a stamped copy of your written agreement of collaboration .
Important: All payments paid to us, the embassy, or any third parties such as a lawyer, public notary, hospital, insurance, or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are partially or non-refundable.
You have seven days to request a refund.
More information is available on each service's webpage, as well as our refund and return policy.
A visa refusal results in a financial and time loss on both our / your part.
If you have any additional questions, please email us at our email and we would be happy to answer them all.
This is absolutely fantastic, I understand everything clearly now. I would like to pay for the Visa D for 3 of my players.
Absolutely clear and easy to understand. Thank you
Thanks for the explanation… The supporting documents of visa D is 800euro? While Visa C is 400euro?
Hello, I am glad we helped you. The visa supporting documents vary from country to country. Usually the expenses in Greece are as you already mentioned but in some countries may be way more expensive. It depends on what kind of documents a consulate will need to give you a visa. We had consulates which asked for validated and stamped documents from Greek police, ministry of foreign affairs, football federation etc. and the costs skyrocketed to 2530 euro. So, before any action we advise you to have a thorough discussion with the Greek consulate in your area to get a list of required documents for your visa and then send us an email at info@euflash.johnnyvps.com with your request and the list from the consulate.
Where do I suppose to pay my Visa registration fee?
Where do I suppose to pay my Visa registration fee?
Hello, in each trial webpage, depending on your nationality, there is information on how to pay visa or trial fees
but i m interest in the trial but i want to know how it will cause me
Hi George,
we have already answered your multiple emails. Check your inbox.