Hi everyone, I'm Indian and have applied for my Schengen Visa - yet to hear
from them.
If this isn't being done already, one thing I would suggest for next year:
booking tickets first for those who require a Visa, and then for
US/European citizen who don't require one. Visa applications need to be
supplemented with a lot of documents to back your case, which require time
to obtain.
Afaik, assuming proper documents have been submitted, Visa
acceptance/denial is in the hands of the Visa officer at the
Embassy/Consulate and cannot be predicted. A friend of mine who contributes
to the Gnome foundation put together this useful guide[1] I'd like to
share. Maybe we could expand on this on a wiki or somewhere similar.
[1] -
http://sindhus.bitbucket.org/docs/gnome-visa/introduction.html