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Best for families and travellers on a budget.
- Instant appointment alerts
- One subscription for all travellers
- Valid for a month, non recurrent
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Schengen visa appointment in the UK: 5 cities, 22 destinations
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Independent service. VisaBot is operated by TREVOR PHILIPS LTD and is not affiliated with VFS Global, TLScontact, BLS International or any consulate. We monitor availability; the decision on any visa application rests solely with the relevant authorities.
- 5UK cities
- 22Schengen destinations monitored
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- Every booking made in your name
- iOS and Android app
From the UK you apply to the consulate of your main destination and book at that country's visa centre. In VisaBot's UK coverage those centres are run by VFS Global and BLS International, in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Cardiff. VisaBot watches their calendars around the clock and alerts you the second a date appears, or takes it in your name on AutoBooking. The consulate decides the visa, not us.
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Best for busy people that can't respond right away to notifications.
- Bot books appointments for you
- One subscription for all travellers
- Catches every available slot
Three steps from subscription to a booked UK appointment
- 1
Subscribe on the web or in the app. Pick your destination, the UK city you can travel to and your visa category. One subscription covers everyone in the application.
- 2
VisaBot watches the centre, you don't. No hand-refreshing the VFS Global or BLS International calendar: 350 UK routes were in live monitoring across all five centres.
- 3
A date opens: you take it, or the bot does. Notifications sends an email and a push the moment a slot appears. AutoBooking completes the booking in your name at the official centre.
No service can promise a slot. VisaBot makes sure you hear about one first.
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Notifications or AutoBooking: which plan fits your UK application?
Notifications
- What it does
- Email and push when a slot opens
- When it wins
- You can book within minutes
- Needs from you
- You book it yourself
- Travellers
- One subscription, whole application
- Price
- from £35 per month
- Renewal
- 30 days, no auto-renewal
AutoBooking
- What it does
- Books the slot in your name
- When it wins
- You're at work or asleep
- Needs from you
- Applicant details, OTP via support, the centre's fee
- Travellers
- Per applicant
- Price
- from £100 per applicant
- Renewal
- Ends on booking or expiry
A family of four applying to Spain.
Spain is booked through BLS International in London, Manchester or Edinburgh. One Notifications subscription covers all four; AutoBooking is not offered for Spain, so Notifications is the plan here.
You can't watch your phone at work, or you live in Cardiff or Birmingham. A date that appears at 09:40 can be gone by 09:45, and those two cities cover only a handful of destinations. Take AutoBooking, and set the city that books your country rather than the nearest.
Price note.
The final amount depends on the centre's own booking fee, so it can exceed the headline price. Refund terms: refund policy.
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Where VisaBot watches for slots in the UK
VisaBot's UK coverage spans 403 routes: every combination of city, destination and visa category we monitor from the UK. They sit in five cities and cover 22 Schengen destinations through two operators, VFS Global and BLS International.
| City | Operators | Destinations | Routes monitored |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | VFS Global, BLS International | 22 | 133 |
| Edinburgh | VFS Global, BLS International | 21 | 136 |
| Manchester | VFS Global, BLS International | 18 | 115 |
| Cardiff | VFS Global | 4 | 7 |
| Birmingham | VFS Global | 2 | 12 |
London, Edinburgh and Manchester carry almost all of these routes, so applicants near Birmingham or Cardiff often subscribe for a larger city. Estonia is the only destination bookable from all five. Spain is the operator exception: the one BLS International destination, 130 routes on its own.
Netherlands · Italy · Spain · Portugal · Switzerland · Austria · Estonia · Hungary · Lithuania · Denmark · Finland · Cyprus · Czech Republic · Croatia · Bulgaria · Sweden · Norway · Slovakia · Slovenia · Latvia · Iceland · Malta
Coverage moves when centres change operator or rules: the live list is in the app and on the full list of countries VisaBot covers. A missing destination may be run by TLScontact — ask support first.
How AutoBooking actually books your UK appointment
- 1
You give booking details, not documents. AutoBooking needs the applicants' details and your date range. VisaBot doesn't check, prepare or submit documents, and doesn't run your application.
- 2
The bot fills in the centre's form. When a date appears for your destination, city and category, it books at the official centre in your name. We never hold or resell appointments.
- 3
The OTP code. Centres send a one-time code at login. It lands in VisaBot's system mailbox and lasts minutes, so message support before logging in yourself.
- 4
The centre's fee is paid during booking. VFS routes run in two stages: a prepayment per applicant up front, then the balance once a slot is secured. TLScontact routes are paid in full up front.
- 5
If the booked date doesn't suit you. You can decline to pay the balance, but the prepayment isn't refundable: it has already gone to the centre as its booking fee. The bot can't swap dates, so a different one means a new subscription.
- 6
Waitlists and empty calendars. Some states here use a waitlist instead of an open calendar; both plans work with them. If nothing opens, monitoring simply runs for the whole period.
The limit, plainly: VisaBot can't create a slot the centre hasn't released, and an appointment is not a visa. Full product answers: VisaBot FAQ.
How long does it take to catch an appointment from the UK?
Half of UK subscribers with a booking got it within 3.9 days: the median across 7,265 completed UK bookings. The spread matters too: the mean is 10.7 days, and one booking in ten took around 25.
This is time to an appointment, not time to a visa. It measures how long the bot took to secure a date at the centre; the consulate's process starts afterwards.
- 3.9days — the median to a booked appointment
- 10.7days — the mean
- 25days — one booking in ten
- 7,265completed UK bookings measured
What moves it
- the destination
- the city
- the visa category
- the season
Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands are where VisaBot books most often from the UK. Separately, from the product FAQ: popular categories usually take one to two weeks.
The consulate's own clock
- A short-stay application
- consulates normally decide in about 15 calendar days
- The lodging window
- you can apply up to six months ahead
See the EU visa policy rules and confirm with your own consulate. If the centres show nothing for weeks: what to do when no Schengen appointment is available in the UK.
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Applying for a Schengen visa from the UK: the essentials
- Who applies
- Any lawful UK resident, any passport. British citizens need no Schengen visa for short stays; ETIAS is not a visa
- Where
- Consulate of your main destination (most nights there), booking at its UK centre. The consulate alone decides the visa
- Operators
- VFS Global for 21 of the 22 destinations, BLS International for Spain; other states may use TLScontact
- Categories
- Tourism, business, study, conferences, medical, official visits, family and friends, EU/EEA family, digital nomad
- Centre may ask
- Passport photo at booking on some routes; selfie and liveness check on a few, mainly Italy and Switzerland
- Fees
- Government visa fee: €90 adult, €45 child aged 6–12, plus the centre's own service fee
- Proving you live here. Consulates ask for proof of lawful UK residence; most residents now share digital immigration status with a UKVI share code rather than a BRP card.
- Going deeper. Documents, refusals, the 90/180 rule: the step-by-step guide to booking a Schengen appointment in the UK and the Spain appointment guide.
Who runs VisaBot, and where the limits are
Who we are. VisaBot is operated by TREVOR PHILIPS LTD, registered in England and Wales on 7 July 2023, company number 14986978, VAT GB465562175 — all checkable on the public register. The seven people who build and run it are named, four with their LinkedIn profiles. Support replies within 24 hours; payments run through Stripe.
What we don't do.
We don't issue visas and we don't influence decisions: no legitimate service can. We're not affiliated with VFS Global, TLScontact, BLS International or any consulate. We don't resell or hold appointments, and we don't claim to know when a centre releases new dates.
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Questions from UK applicants
Can I apply for a Schengen visa from the UK if I'm not a British citizen?
Yes. Any lawful UK resident can apply for a short-stay Schengen visa here, whatever passport they hold, to the consulate of their main destination and at that country's UK centre. Rules on residence-permit validity differ by consulate.
There are no Schengen appointments available in the UK at all. Can VisaBot still get me one?
VisaBot keeps checking the calendar for the whole subscription period, so an empty calendar today doesn't end the search: you hear the moment it changes. We can't create a date the centre hasn't released.
How quickly does VisaBot usually catch an appointment in the UK?
Half of UK bookings were secured within 3.9 days of subscribing, mean 10.7 days, across 7,265 completed bookings. That is time to an appointment, not a visa.
Can one subscription cover my whole family?
Yes on Notifications: one subscription covers every traveller in the same application, which is why families start there. AutoBooking is per applicant, so add everyone who needs a seat.
What if the date the bot books doesn't suit me?
You can decline to pay the balance, but the prepayment isn't refundable: it has already paid the centre's booking fee. The bot can't exchange dates, so a different one needs a new subscription.
Does VisaBot monitor Spain appointments at BLS International?
Yes. Spain is the one destination in VisaBot's UK coverage served by BLS International rather than VFS Global, and its largest block: 130 of 403 routes, in London, Manchester and Edinburgh.
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