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.
Planning a production in Romania involves more than choosing locations and booking a crew. Before travelling, each team member needs to understand the entry requirements and any permissions applicable to their role.
RomaniaFilm / Film Production Romania, operated by TELEDEME SRL, provides local production services exclusively for international clients. Where agreed as part of a genuine production project, we can coordinate supporting documentation and specialist assistance for the relevant immigration and visa procedures.
Visa approval, permission to work and entry into Romania are never guaranteed.
Check the requirements before planning travel
The appropriate procedure depends on each applicant’s nationality, country of residence, existing travel documents, intended activities and length of stay.
An invitation approved by Romania’s General Inspectorate for Immigration (IGI) may be required, depending on the applicable rules and exemptions. This is a separate stage from the consular decision on the visa application.
The travel purpose and supporting documents must accurately reflect the proposed production activities. A visa or visa-free entry must not be assumed to authorise every type of work.
Consult the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ official eViza portal and the competent Romanian embassy or consulate for the requirements applicable to your circumstances.
How we can assist
Depending on the agreed project and the applicable procedure, our support may include:
- Reviewing the production information needed for supporting documentation.
- Coordinating project-related documents and invitation arrangements.
- Coordinating preparation of an IGI file where required.
- Liaising with specialist consultants on the agreed administrative steps.
- Helping align production planning with the documentation process.
The scope of our assistance is confirmed in writing before work begins. Applicants remain responsible for their declarations, personal documentation and any required appointments or biometric collection.
Our support is provided in connection with an agreed production project.
Information needed for an initial assessment
Please send:
- Your production company’s name, registration details and contact information.
- A brief description of the project and the services required in Romania.
- Proposed filming dates, locations and intended duration of stay.
- The number of travelling participants, their nationalities and countries of residence.
- Each participant’s role and professional relationship with the production company.
Once the project has been reviewed, we will explain which additional documents are needed and how to provide them.
Please do not send passport copies or other sensitive personal documents with your first enquiry.
Fees and advance payment
The service fees currently listed are:
- File preparation and coordination of the applicable IGI procedure: €350 per applicant.
- Notarised invitation arrangements: €300 per invitation, where required and appropriate for the proposed group.
- Consular visa fees: payable separately by the applicant through the competent authority’s designated payment arrangements.
The written quotation confirms the exact services included, applicable taxes, third-party expenses and any additional documentation costs.
Agreed IGI and visa-support charges must be paid in full before the relevant work begins. TELEDEME SRL does not finance applicants’ documentation or application expenses.
These charges are identified separately from the production budget and its advance-payment requirements.
Non-refundable and non-transferable costs
Fees for agreed preparation and processing work, together with administrative and third-party costs incurred or committed for the application, are non-refundable.
This applies even if an application is refused, a decision is delayed, or a visa is withdrawn or unused.
These amounts cannot be transferred, reused or credited towards another applicant, application or production project. Any new application requires a new quotation and written acceptance.
These conditions are accepted in writing before work begins, subject to applicable mandatory law.
Timing and decisions
Allow sufficient time for document preparation, any required IGI procedure, consular appointments and examination of the application.
There is no single processing timetable suitable for every production. Additional document requests, checks or appointment constraints may affect the schedule.
We cannot promise an approval date or expedited treatment. Plan travel commitments with these uncertainties in mind.
An invitation, a complete application file or payment of our fees does not guarantee a visa. Decisions remain exclusively with the competent authorities.
Start with your production brief
To discuss documentation support for a production in Romania, email:
info [@] romaniafilm.com
Include your company details, project outline, proposed dates and the nationalities and countries of residence of the travelling team.
We will review the project and explain the next steps before any paid documentation work is commissioned.
Please also read our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
RomaniaFilm / Film Production Romania is operated by TELEDEME SRL, CUI 44536192, company registration number J23/4095/2021. Operational base: Bucharest, Romania.
Last updated: 16 October 2026.
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.
