Schengen appointment alerts
A notification service is only worth paying for where there is something to notify you about. On a growing number of UK routes there is not, and we will tell you which.
What the service does
Where a consulate or its provider publishes appointment slots that applicants book themselves, availability can appear and disappear within minutes. Our notification service monitors those booking pages and tells you when a slot appears for the country you are watching, so you can go and book it.
You book it. We do not hold, reserve or book appointments for you, and we have no access to any consulate system beyond the same public pages you can see.
The two kinds of route
Every UK Schengen route now works one of two ways, and the difference decides whether alerts are worth anything at all.
| Route type | How it works | Are alerts useful? |
|---|---|---|
| Open booking | Slots are published on a calendar. Applicants book them first come, first served, and cancellations reappear. | Yes. Knowing within minutes is a genuine advantage. |
| Allocation / waiting list | You register, join a queue, and an appointment is assigned to you by email. Nothing is published. | No. There is no calendar to watch and no slot to race for. |
Where we do not sell alerts
These routes moved to allocation, so a notification product cannot do anything useful on them and we do not offer one:
- Germany — London and Manchester, short-stay categories, since 1 June 2026. Appointments are allocated from a waiting list, first come, first served, with 24 hours to confirm. See our Germany page.
- France — Wandsworth (London) and Manchester, short-stay, since 1 August 2026. Automatic allocation with a 12-hour confirmation window and a 60-day expiry. See our France page.
- Netherlands. Dutch government guidance tells applicants to book their own appointment and not to use an intermediary. We follow that advice rather than sell around it. See our Netherlands page.
If another provider offers you alerts, priority access or a guaranteed date on one of these routes, compare what they are describing against how the route actually works before you pay.
Arrangements change, sometimes at short notice and sometimes back again. This page is dated below, and we update it when a route changes. If you are unsure whether alerts apply to your route, ask us before paying and we will tell you plainly.
What we will not claim
- We do not guarantee that an appointment will become available.
- We do not guarantee that you will secure one you are notified about — others are notified by the same systems.
- We cannot make a consulate release slots, create capacity or move you up a queue.
- We are not affiliated with any government, embassy, consulate or visa application centre, and we have no privileged access to any of them.
What we do control is the monitoring and the speed of the message to you.
What it costs
Notifications are £25 per month for a single country, or £60 per month for multiple countries where slots are released openly. There is no long contract — you can stop the service at any time, and our refund policy explains cancellation and refunds.
If your destination is on the list above, do not buy the notification product. Booking guidance or document support may still help you; alerts will not.
Last reviewed: . Official appointment arrangements change; always confirm on the official source before acting.
Common questions
No. We monitor published availability and tell you when something appears. Whether a slot appears, and whether you secure it, is outside our control.
German short-stay applications in London and Manchester, French short-stay applications at Wandsworth and Manchester, and the Netherlands. The first two allocate appointments rather than releasing them, and Dutch guidance tells applicants to book their own.
As soon as our monitoring detects it. Other applicants and other services may be watching the same pages, so speed helps but does not guarantee the slot.
No. You book it yourself using your own details. We have no access to any consulate or visa centre booking system.
Yes, at any time. The refund policy sets out how cancellation and refunds work.
Tell us, or we will tell you. There is no point charging for monitoring a page that no longer publishes anything.
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