Two year Schengen visa type C with a comment 'for business'
I have a Schengen visa type C valid for two years, and there is a comment written by issuing country on the visa that it is for business. What does that mean?
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Since your visa is valid for two years, I will assume it is issued for multiple entries.
The Schengen rules do not provide any way to issue a multiple-entry visa that is only valid for business visits. The issuing state can write "business" in the remarks field, but at most that tells what the trip that caused the visa to be issued was about; it does not legally influence the validity of the visa.
The very point of issuing a multiple-entry visa is that it will be valid for all subsequent short visits within its period of validity, even if they have other purposes than the first one that the visa was issued for.
Why would the issuing country even bother to write "business" in the remarks field? Most probably it is just because they do it for all visas they issue, even ones with short validity where it makes sense for border guards to check that the traveler's plans match what the visa was issued for. And even for a long visa such as yours, the first use of the visa is generally expected to be the trip you documented in your visa application -- otherwise a suspicion will arise that the claims in your application were fraudulent at the time you applied, which can lead the visa being revoked at the border.
But once you have used the visa once for its applied-for purpose, it does not restrict what you can use it for subsequently.
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