On this page below you will find all the information you need for your visa application
If you do not understand how it works, you can always call us. Tel. 0031 70 215 4995
We ask for a higher rate for this consulate because there is a very good chance that we will have to drive to Brussels several times. The visa is never ready on the date indicated by the consulate. We hope to speed up the procedure by travelling to the consulate several times, and an urgent process is not possible at this consulate.
Visa | Visa costs VAT free | Mediation fee excl. VAT | Invitation costs VAT free | Total costs excl. VAT | Total costs incl. VAT |
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Multiple entry valid for 1 month | € 140.00 | € 150.00 | € 0.00 | € 290.00 | € 321.50 |
Multiple entry valid for 2 months | € 175.00 | € 150.00 | € 0.00 | € 325.00 | € 356.50 |
Multiple entry valid for 3 months | € 225.00 | € 150.00 | € 0.00 | € 375.00 | € 406.50 |
Processing days at the consulate:
Normal procedure: one and a half to two weeks (no guarantee, it can only take a few weeks!)
The urgent procedure is not possible!
On Tuesday and Friday, we go to the Congo-Kinshasa consulate in Brussels.
1. An application that goes to Brussels on Tuesday will be ready a week later on Friday (but no guarantee!).
2. An application that goes to Brussels on Friday will be ready two weeks later on Friday (but no guarantee!).
Subject to both Congolese and Dutch national holidays.
Congolese and Dutch national holidays do not count as working days
Please note, the diplomat is authorized to request additional documents for your visa application, as a result of which your visa application may be delayed.
The documents that are required for your visa
- Your passport.
- We need to have the passport physically, so no copy.
- Your passport must still be valid for at least 6½ months after the validity of the visa (ie one and a half year valid if it is an annual visa).
- The passport must have at least two blank facing visa pages.
- Two (2 x) color passport photos.
- Note that these photos are according to the Dutch standard of ‘passport photo’, that is to say, looking forward, white background, do not laugh and do not show teeth.
- Wearing glasses in the photo is not permitted
- Nine times out of ten, the consulate does not accept a photo from your own printer. If you do so, make sure you use gloss paper and there are no stripes visible from the print.
- Do not staple the photo to the application form, but rather use a Pritt stick. If you do not have a Pritt stick, please include your loose photo and we will attach it to the form for you.
- Do not stick the photos with adhesive tape
Other conditions that you must pay extra attention to:
- The photos may not be older than 3 months
- The photos may not be the same as on the passport unless the passport is not older than 3 months
- The photos must have a white background.
- A booking confirmation of your flight (return ticket)
- The consulate wants to see when you enter the country and go out again
- It may be a booking for a flight, bus, train, boat
- Your name must be mentioned on it
- The consulate must recognize the confirmation as being that it comes from a travel agency or an airline.
- A confirmation of a flight by a customer of your will not be accepted because the consulate will say that anyone can do this. Think of logos, photos or other features that an official confirmation of an airline by mail in general meets
- Our advice, make sure you take out cancellation insurance when purchasing your flight. In the event that you do not receive your visa, you will not suffer any financial
For the visa application, you must be vaccinated against yellow fever. You must enclose a copy of the yellow booklet, within the valid stamp that you have been vaccinated against yellow fever.
Our advice: ask the GGD or your doctor whether further vaccinations are needed for this country. But for the visa application is the vaccination against yellow fever sufficient.
Legalized invitation from the hotel, this needs to have:
- To be provided with a stamp from the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST)
- Contains the full address and contact details of the inviting party
- State the reason, the desired visa type, the validity period of the visa and the number of visits (entries such as single or double entry)
- Include an acceptance of financial responsibility for the applicant
- To be signed by the inviting party
- Is it your first visit to Congo? If so, you must include a declaration of good conduct, not older than 6 months.
- You can request this through your municipality.
- Recent bank statement with salary payment
- Your name must be stated on the bank statement
- You need a balance of 1000 euros on the bank statement
The order form, click here to digitally complete, print and sign it.
- Everything you write on the order form will be on the invoice
- S.v.p. enter your address in full, such as your street name, house number, zip code and city. We need the full address for the billing and return address
- We need your e-mail address for when your visa application has been accepted by the consulate, we will send you an invoice by e-mail the same day. You must transfer the invoice to us on the same day with I-Deal or bank transfer so that we have the amount in our bank before we collect your visa passport at the consulate.
- Your telephone number or numbers where we can always reach you in the event that your documents are incomplete or when the diplomat wants to view additional documents.
- The application form, click here to complete this digitally, print it 2 times and sign it both of them.
- You must answer all questions online
- This is the original application form that the consulate uses for its visa procedure
- Please print and place your signature, the colors of the print may only be black or dark blue. Other colors are not allowed
- A signature may not be scanned
- A signature may only be placed with the colors black or dark blue. Other colors are not allowed.
VisumService.nl/Congo Kinshasa1
Po Box 1267
2280 CG Rijswijk (ZH)
The Netherlands
VisumService.nl/Congo Kinshasa1
Anna Paulownastraat 63
(through the grey door to ring the bell)
2518 BC The Hague
The Netherlands
Office address:
Anna Paulownastraat 63
2518 BC The Hague
The Netherlands
Business hours:
Monday – Friday 9:00 – 17:00
Contact us:
Tel +31(0)6-393 39 184
Tel +31(0)70 215 49 95
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