Which Schengen country is easiest to get a visa from Senegal?

On 2025 figures there is no single easiest country: Germany and Italy are statistically tied. Across every Schengen state, 48 in 100 applications from Senegal were approved in 2025. The best option approved 74 in 100; the lowest, Portugal, approved 18.

Read this before the table. You are required to apply to the country where you will spend the most nights — or, if the nights are split evenly, the country you enter first. That is not a formality: an application lodged at the wrong consulate is refused on that ground alone, and a refusal is visible to every Schengen consulate on every future application you ever make. This table tells you what the odds look like where you are genuinely going. It is not a menu.

Approval rates from Senegal, 2025

#	Deciding country	Approved	Likely range	Applications
1	Germany	74.3%	72.1–76.3%	1,596
2	Italy	71.8%	70.6–72.9%	6,246
3	Switzerland	62.2%	60.3–64.0%	2,638
4	France	54.0%	53.5–54.5%	35,242
5	Spain	47.7%	46.5–48.9%	7,343
6	Austria	34.3%	31.8–37.0%	1,280
7	Belgium	20.6%	19.7–21.6%	7,651
8	Netherlands	19.5%	18.4–20.5%	5,569
9	Portugal	17.9%	16.3–19.6%	2,145

Too few decisions to rank (under 1,000): Greece 47% of 571; Romania 29% of 463; Luxembourg 51% of 399; Poland 73% of 376; the Czech Republic 69% of 376.

Highlighted rows are statistically indistinguishable from the best option — their ranges overlap, so the order between them is noise. "Likely range" is where the true approval rate probably lies (95% confidence) given how many people applied. Approval rate = visas issued (including visas limited to some countries) out of all decisions — the European Commission's own definition. Source: European Commission consulate statistics, 2025.

The number that actually moves: which consulate

A country's rate is an average over posts that behave very differently. This is the part the listicles leave out, and for most applicants it matters more than the choice of country — it is the one figure that describes their own situation rather than a national average.

Country	Most approvals	Fewest	Gap

Your consulate is fixed by where you live, so this is rarely a choice either. Its value is calibration: it tells you how much scrutiny to prepare for.

What this page deliberately does not do

It does not rank countries by how "lenient" they are, because the data cannot support that claim. A consulate's refusal rate reflects who applies there as much as how it decides. Two posts of the same country apply the same law; they see different applicant pools.

It also does not tell you your own chances. A national approval rate of 74% does not mean you personally have a 74% chance — your documents, finances, employment and travel history dominate. What the rate is good for is judging how thorough you need to be. The reasons applications actually fail →

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