Etats Schengen on your Schengen visa. Many people ask us what Etats Schengen means. Etats Schengen is often mentioned in many discussions and questions and answers on the web related to Schengen visa.

You can find the words or the expression Etats Schengen in your passport on your Schengen visa on the line that says "valid for". The line "valid for" determines to which countries you can travel with your Schengen visa.

Etats Schengen (or more precisely États Schengen) translated into English simply means "Schengen states", and you can use such visa to travel to any state within the whole Schengen zone. Here is list of Schengen states just in case you were wondering which those are.

If you visa does not say Etats Schengen, it probably says the name of some country. In that case, the visa allows you to travel to that country only.

Etats Schengen translated

You can take a look at a sample Schengen visa on our Schengen visa image page. The table below provides translations of Etats Schengen.

French	États Schengen
German	Schengener Staaten
Austrian	Schengen Staates
Danish	Schengen-staterne
Estonish	Schengeni riigid
Finish	Schengen-valtiot
Czech	státy Schengenu
Hungarian	schengeni államok
Italian	Stati Schengen
Latvian	Šengenas valstis
Lithuanian	Šengeno valstybėse
Maltese	l-Istati ta' Schengen
Netherlandish	Schengenstaten
Polish	Państwa Schengen
Spanish	Estados Schengen
Slovenian	schengenske države
Slovakish	štáty schengenského priestoru
Swedish	Schengenstater