Dummy ticket (flight reservation) for Italy visa from India

What the Italy checklist asks for

• A return flight reservation printout in each traveller’s name, for the dates on your application form.
• Proof of travel inside the Schengen area, such as train bookings or car rentals, if you move between cities or countries.
• Confirmed hotel reservations covering your travel dates, including nights in any other Schengen country.
• Travel insurance with €30,000 cover; Mumbai’s list says a minimum of 10 days from the travel date is mandatory.
• Original bank statements and, on Mumbai’s list, income tax returns for the last three assessment years.

Italy visa checklist: every item as printed, flight and hotel lines highlighted · A real order: flight reservation and hotel bookings matched date by date

Italy: the options side by side

Which Italian post handles your file

Italy assigns applications by where you live, not where your passport was issued. Its New Delhi VFS page says so directly: “The place of issue of a passport or the permanent resident mentioned in the passport does not determine the jurisdiction”. The Embassy in New Delhi covers Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chandigarh.

The Consulate General in Mumbai covers Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Goa and Kerala, with VFS centres in Mumbai, Kochi, Pune and Ahmedabad. Bengaluru handles the southern states, including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and Kolkata the east; confirm your state on the VFS page for that post. Applicants in a number of smaller cities, such as Trivandrum, Indore and Jamshedpur, can apply by post through Blue Dart with a demand draft.

Delhi refuses more, and multiple-entry is common

Italy did not issue 12.7% of Indian applications in 2025, but its posts differ. Mumbai was at 10.1%, Bengaluru 12.4% and Kolkata 13.4%, while New Delhi reached 16.6%. Applicants from Punjab, Haryana and the rest of the Embassy’s area should expect the closest reading of whether the trip adds up.

Italy is also one of the most generous states with multiple-entry visas: 89% of the visas it issued to Indians in 2025 allowed more than one entry. Under the EU’s cascade rules for Indian residents, two visas obtained and lawfully used within three years can lead to a two-year multiple-entry visa, so a clean first Italian trip has value beyond the holiday itself.

What Mumbai’s checklist adds

The Mumbai consulate’s tourist list, revised in March 2024, goes further than the EU’s general list for India in a few places. Insurance must run for at least 10 days from the travel date, even if your trip is shorter. Bank statements must be originals, and the list tells you, in capitals, to inform the bank that you need them for a visa. Income tax returns are asked for the last three assessment years, not two. A minor travelling without both parents needs consent signed at the consulate or an apostilled affidavit.

Both the Mumbai and New Delhi pages say the documents are mandatory even where flights, accommodation or insurance are arranged by an employer or a travel company. A tour package does not excuse you from showing the itinerary yourself.

Italy with Switzerland, France or Malta

Italy is often one stop on a longer European route. Apply to Italy only if it gets the most nights, or, with equal nights, if you enter the Schengen area there. Milan, Florence and Rome with two nights in Lucerne belongs with Italy; a trip weighted towards Switzerland or Paris does not.

Mumbai’s list asks for hotel bookings in every other Schengen country you visit and proof of all internal travel, including trains. Open-jaw reservations, such as Delhi to Milan and Rome back to Delhi, are normal. Add the train or car rental between cities, and give any side trip to Switzerland, France or Malta its own connection and hotel on the file.

Flying from India to Italy

Your reservation should follow a route you could realistically fly. These are common options; schedules change, so the desk confirms what is bookable for your dates.

Mistakes to avoid with a Italy application

• Applying under the post where your passport was issued instead of the one covering where you live.
• Insurance that runs only for a short trip when Mumbai’s list requires at least 10 days from the travel date.
• Hotel bookings for Italy only when the itinerary also includes Switzerland or France.
• Leaving out the trains or car rental between cities, which Mumbai’s list asks you to show.
• Relying on a tour operator’s package instead of submitting the itinerary documents yourself.
• Sending two years of tax returns to Mumbai, whose list asks for three assessment years.

Dummy ticket and hotel bookings, matched to your itinerary

We do not send one loose document. The desk matches the flight reservation and every hotel booking to your itinerary: the same dates, the same cities, and no night left uncovered. These are the real documents of one order for a Switzerland visa file, issued on 5 November 2026: one flight reservation and four hotel bookings that cover all 9 nights between the two flights. Personal details are blacked out; everything else is as issued.

• Flight reservationEtihad, Hyderabad (HYD) to Zurich (ZRH), status Confirmed
• Hotel booking, ZurichMEININGER Hotel Zürich Greencity, 3 nights
• Hotel booking, GenevaB&B HOTEL Geneva Airport, 3 nights
• Hotel booking, LucerneSeminarhotel Romerohaus, 2 nights
• Hotel booking, Zurich AirportLeonardo Hotel Zurich Airport, 1 night

Open the full documents and the day-by-day table: flight and hotels matched date by date

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