Romanian Consulate General in Cahul

Moldovan citizens can visit Romania without a visa for up to 90 days.

2025 figures: 61 short-stay Schengen visa applications were lodged at Romania’s consulate general in Cahul, and 60 visas were issued. 1 applications were refused, a refusal rate of 1.6%. Applications rose by 307% compared with 2024 (15).

Romania issues Schengen visas at 3 locations in Moldova; this office handled 19% of their 314 applications in 2025. Refusal rates elsewhere: Chișinău 8.7% and Bălţi 2.1%, which makes Cahul the lowest of the group. Each office serves the applicants who live in its own consular district, so the rates also reflect who applies where, not only how strictly files are assessed.

Across all Schengen consulates in Moldova, 6.9% of applications were refused in 2025; Romania’s rate worldwide was 11.5%. Romania received the 5th largest number of applications of the 7 Schengen states represented here.

46.7% of the visas issued here were multiple-entry visas, valid for several trips. Romania only began issuing Schengen visas on 31 March 2024, so its 2024 figures cover part of the year. The statistics count applications, not people, and include every nationality that applies here, not only citizens of Moldova.

The Romanian embassy is in Chișinău, about 133 km away. Besides the Romanian consulate general in Cahul, Romania has 4 other missions in Moldova. Consulates: Bălţi, Ungheni and Chișinău. Moldova in turn has 2 missions in Romania.

About the Romanian consulate general in Cahul

It appears in official lists as Consulate General of Romania in Cahul. Career consulates of this kind usually renew passports and take visa applications for their region.

Address and contact

Address: Strada Bogdan Petriceicu-Hașdeu 11, Cahul. The record for the Romanian consulate general in Cahul includes a phone number and an official website.

Romanian citizens travelling to Moldova

Romanian citizens can visit Moldova without a visa for up to 90 days.

When the Romanian consulate general in Cahul is closed

The next closures of the Romanian consulate general in Cahul for public holidays in Moldova are South Capital's Day Cahul on Saturday 21 November 2026 and Christmas Day (Craciun pe stil Nou (Western Christmas)) on Friday 25 December 2026; it may also close for St. Andrew's Day (Sfântul Andrei) on Monday 30 November 2026.

Before visiting the Romanian consulate general in Cahul

Current procedures for the Romanian consulate general in Cahul, including any appointment system, are on its official website, linked on this page.