General official information from Romanian Foreign Affairs: http://eviza.mae.ro/
The usual procedure for obtaining a Romanian visa lasts between 45 and 180 days. It is a bureaucratic procedure that involves numerous documents, notices and related approvals. There is no emergency procedure.
Romania has a lot of cinematic locations and sets.
Therefore, it’s been a constantly increasing requests for productions shot and serviced in Romania lately.
However, Romania Visa application is a quite tricky and time-consuming procedure, even more complicate in the last period due to European concerns regarding immigration policies.
Also, since April 2024, Romania became Schengen country, therefore Immigration Office – IGI endorsement is compulsory.
Film Production Romania is strictly a provider of professional local outsourcing film-TV production services. As a result, Film Production Romania cannot assume legal responsibilities regarding obtaining work/film visas, but it has all the tools necessary to ensure full professional support.
For this reason, Film Production Romania partnered with one of the best consulting organization in Romania – so the visa application procedure is considerably simplified and therefore most successful.
Prerequisites
- applicants’ valid passport (as issued by the country of origin)
- Company registration official papers (as issued by the country of origin)
- Work relation proof between the applicant and the Company (property rights, shareholder, administrator, employee, collaborator with official contract, etc)
- Film project details (moodboard / scriptboard / description)
Costs
IMPORTANT: Since April 2024, Romania consulates issue Schengen visa, therefore IGI endorsement is compulsory.
- file preparation cost + IGI (Immigration Office) endorsement + stamp: €350.00 / applicant
- consular taxes: will be paid at the Embassy by the applicant
- notarial authenticated invitation: €300.00 / invitation (can hold up to 20 applicants)
Completing the IGI file requires the payment of fees and official notices, in accordance with Romanian legislation. Since IGI files and approvals are mandatory for obtaining a visa, we cannot undertake and allow these payments on behalf of visa applicants from our own funds, because only the applicant benefits from these services. As a result, the payment of these fees and permits is made ONLY in full in advance by the visa applicant.
What we do is to represent and assist the visa applicants and we make these payments on their behalf, in order to obtain the complete documentation for obtaining the visa.
NOTE: file preparation and invitation letter costs will be fully paid in advance
Procedure
- applicants will forward all prerequisites to Film Production Romania
- applicants will pay the costs – invoice based, the procedure will start and proceed quickly
- Consulting company will fully prepare the comprehensive file for application, apply for IGI endorsement and will submit it to the relevant embassy / consulate
- Applicants will be scheduled for Embassy interview
- Visa type C/ZA will be issued and film production can start
NOTE: please note application without a thoroughly prepared file will have almost zero chances to be approved.
conquered. This remote hamlet is a breathtaking marvel of nature and human endurance, where life hangs literally on the edge—cliffside homes clinging to slopes that make strong men dizzy and old women chuckle at lowlanders’ trepidation.
Henri Marie Coandă (Romanian pronunciation: [ɑ̃ˈri ˈko̯andə] (7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a “flying saucer” and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.
and Năvodari on the Black Sea. Administered from Agigea, it is an important part of the waterway link between the North Sea and the Black Sea via the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal. The main branch of the canal, with a length of 64.4 km (40.0 mi), which connects the Port of Cernavodă with the Port of Constanța, was built in 1976–1984, while the northern branch, known as the Poarta Albă–Midia Năvodari Canal, with a length of 31.2 km (19.4 mi), connecting Poarta Albă and the Port of Midia, was built between 1983 and 1987.
Although the idea of building a navigable canal between the Danube and the Black Sea is old, the first concrete attempt was made between 1949 and 1953, when the communist authorities of the time used this opportunity to eliminate political opponents, so the canal became notorious as the site of labor camps, when at any given time, between 5,000 and 20,000 detainees, mostly political prisoners, worked on its excavation. The total number of prisoners used as labor force during this period is unknown, with the total number of deaths being estimated at several tens of thousands. The construction works of the Danube–Black Sea Canal were to be resumed 20 years later, in different conditions.
George Emil Palade (Fellowship of the Royal Society, Royal Microscopical Society) (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdʒe̯ordʒe eˈmil paˈlade]; November 19, 1912 – October 7, 2008) was a Romanian-American cell biologist.
born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the harsh conditions of life in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime, the history of the Germans in the Banat (and more broadly, Transylvania), and the persecution of Romanian ethnic Germans by Stalinist Soviet occupying forces in Romania. Müller has been an internationally well-known author since the early 1990s, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages. She has received over 20 awards, including the 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. On 8 October 2009, it was announced she would be awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”, together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.
