Schengen Visa

The UAE head at VFS Global cautions that applying to a less well-known Schengen nation in order to obtain a quicker visa may result in rejection.
Article 5 of the EU Visa Code determines the competent nation based on the primary destination, length of stay, or initial arrival when time is equivalent.
Refusals of visas are recorded in the Visa Information System, which may have an impact on subsequent applications within the Schengen Area.

Travelers should steer clear of agents that guarantee appointments because the Schengen system does not offer fast-track or paid accelerated processing.
According to VFS Global's UAE Regional Director, Monaz Billimoria, the "little country method" that many UAE citizens think enables them to apply to less well-known Schengen nations like Luxembourg or Malta in order to obtain visas more quickly has been shown to be untrue and may even a denial of a visa.

The EU Visa Code (Regulation 810/2009) provides the legal foundation for deciding which Schengen nation will handle a visa application. The competent member state is chosen using a rigid hierarchy of criteria, as stated in Article 5 of the code, which includes:

the nation that the applicant plans to visit.
When traveling to many countries, the primary destination country is the one where the applicant plans to spend the most time.
The nation whose border the applicant enters the Schengen Area first, if there isn't a primary goal.
According to Schengen rules, you must apply to the nation you are visiting or will be visiting.