VISA

70% growth for Slovakia

With a total of three VFS Global’s visa application centres in India, Slovakia saw a 70 per cent increase in Indian arrivals in 2018, with leisure tourism on the rise. Hazel Jain Ivan Lancaric, Ambassador of Slovakia to India, based in New Delhi, was recently in Mumbai to officially inaugurate …

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Lithuania enters VFS fold

VFS Global has rolled out Lithuania visa services in New Delhi to cater to travellers from India visiting the European country. Along with Delhi, the services are available in Mumbai and Bengaluru. Manas Dwivedi Julius Pranevicius, Ambassador of Lithuania to India and Giedrius KaXakevicius, Director of the Consular Department, Ministry …

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Visa fee hike deters Indian inbound

The marked increase in visa charges for visiting India has not gone down well with tourists across the world as well as inbound agents who claim that business has been affected whilst also expressing the impossibility of achieving the government’s target of 20 million tourists by 2020. TT Bureau Rajiv …

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VFS aims 100 governments

After recording double digit growth in 2017, VFS Global is all set to offer premium door-to-door and mobile visa services to clients and is aiming to represent 100 countries by 2020. TT BUREAU VFS Global recently honoured 95 countries at its ‘Diplomats for Peace’ event in New Delhi, in a …

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VFS cautions against visa fraud

VFS Global urges travel agents to be aware of fake visa and immigration scam by fraudsters posing as VFS employees and enlists these telltale signs that they need to be aware of. n recent months, VFS Global, that partners with 52 client governments worldwide to provide visa services, has been …

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BLS targets 4 mn visas by 2018

BLS International Services aims at processing nearly 4 million visa applications by 2018. The company currently works with nine client governments Outsourcing and technology services provider, BLS International Services caters to various government agencies and claims to be the only Indian player and second largest in the world which deals …

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Digital lift to visa payments

While the tourism industry applauds demonetisation, none deny that the move has affected tourism business with shifts to cheaper destinations, postponement and cancellations of trips. The visa fee and payment for visa procedures has been shifted online for the convenience of applicants. Among the many verticals affected in the wake …

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