PhD thesis or Swiggy bills? Netizens shocked of paperwork for Schengen visa

Have you ever applied for a Schengen visa? If not, then maybe you would think twice after seeing this picture!

An individual by the name of Saptarshi Prakash tweeted a picture of the papers he needed to obtain a Schengen visa, Twitter users were perplexed.

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In the caption, he wrote, “Applying for a tourist visa to one of the most developed countries of the world. This is the amount of paper I am supposed to carry to prove that I have the money to stay there and come back." The image shows a massive bundle of paperwork, which seems to be unending.

In a follow-up tweet, he said the documents he attached were bank statements, 3 years of Income tax returns, and payslips among other things.

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Since uploaded, the image has gone viral and managed to gather over 4K likes.

The amount of documentation astonished users of the internet. Others referred to it as a book manuscript, while some made the comparison to a PhD thesis.