The Arduous Luxembourg Visa Process

Oof, that's tough. I'm over here on a blue card, and I found that the initial application and dealing with department of immigration was actually really streamlined. Everything is very manual and personal over here, but there are a large number of public servants that are very welcoming and happy to help out.

Many countries will allow you a second or even third passport, so you can still travel while visa are being processed.

> If I applied for the Luxembourg visa before my trip, I would run the risk of not getting my passport back in time

Certainly in 2025 we can collectively come up with a better solution, where passports could be granted permissions electronically and the actual document would act only as international identification.

I work in big tech in the US. In my usual daily life, I get to meet extremely intelligent and successful people from India. Ex-founders, Executives, engineers that have built large parts of the software we take for granted - each and every one of them maintains that every time they have to apply for a visa as an Indian passport holder, it's an absolutely humbling experience.

This is the burden we carry.

It is not possible to apply for one visum for all of schengen?