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Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 Article 12

Regulation (EC) No 767/2008 Article 12

Data to be added for a visa refusal

Article 12

1.   Where a decision has been taken to refuse a visa, the visa authority which refused the visa shall add the following data to the application file: (a) status information indicating that the visa has been refused; (b) the authority that refused the visa, including its location; (c) place and date of the decision to refuse the visa. 2.   The application file shall also indicate the ground(s) for refusal of the visa, which shall be one or more of the following. The applicant: (a) has no valid travel document(s); (b) has a false/counterfeit/forged travel document; (c) does not justify the purpose and conditions of stay, in particular is considered to represent a specific risk of illegal immigration pursuant to Part V of the Common Consular Instructions; (d) has already stayed for three months during a six-month period on the territory of the Member States; (e) does not have sufficient means of subsistence in relation to the period and form of stay, or the means to return to the country of origin or transit; (f) is a person for whom an alert has been issued for the purposes of refusing entry in the Schengen Information System (SIS) and/or in the national register; (g) is considered to constitute a threat to public policy, internal security or the international relations of any of the Member States, or to public health, as defined in Article 2 point 19 of Regulation (EC) No 562/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 establishing a Community Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (Schengen Borders Code)  ( 22 ) .

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