New Delhi: Visa suspension is almost two months by a large number of countries in India – after the second covid wave is destroyed – has caused a large pile of applicants.
Countries such as Canada and Germany, who recently continued visa processing for certain categories, witnessing the surge in applications – especially from students followed by other categories like that for work; Visiting friends and relatives (VFR) and of course those who are desperate to travel after months of work / study at home, – leading to a long wait for a meeting appointment and then regaining the passport.
This phenomenon was first witnessed by the US Embassy which continued the visa processing last month for students who had to join this autumn university.
Ixigo travel portal said countries that have opened their doors to India for unimportant trips including Maldives, Switzerland, France, Russia, Ukraine, Qatar, Turkey, Iceland, Costa Rica, Nepal and France.
Not revealing the estimated application delayed, spokesman VFS told toi on Friday: “While some of our client governments have given us permission to continue acceptance of applications, the categories received differ from one mission to another.
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with categories and guidelines The allowed varied and dynamic, it is difficult to name the country looking at the maximum rush.
However, considering the coming months to coincide with the opening of the university, we experienced many students who want to pursue admission abroad.
“Germany, who recently Continuing visa processing in India, looking at this rush.
German ambassador to India, Walter J Lindner, Tweeted on Thursday: “Meet the Senior VFS Global Partners to discuss the current visa service restart after lifting travel prohibitions and ways to speed up the process.
Because of the ongoing actions and prevention measures (Ary) ongoing, not all appli (cation) can be processed immediately, please continue to be patient! “Meeting Senior VFS Global Partners to discuss the visa restart gradually at this time after lifting a 2W travel ban …
https://t.co/bquah41ayij8- Walter J.
Lindner (@ABLINDNERIndia) 1626951742000Canada also looked in a hurry.
“Because of the high number of passport shipments requests, we have restarted office services at our Canada Visa application center in various locations throughout India to reduce the overall visa application processing time for our customers …
Certain customer passports will be sent to our center.
On Other locations of them are applied.
With the high number of questions handled by our current contact center, we ask your patience until the passport is processed and returned to you in this scenario, “VFS said tweeted.
To reduce the overall processing time of the Canadian visa application in India, a particular customer passport will …
https://t.co/emmzogqait- VFS Global (@VSGlobal) 1627021697000IN in the last few weeks, some countries have begun to be fully vaccinated.
(It means that those who have covishield like now) travelers from India.
Switzerland is one of the first major travel magnets that allow quarantine free visits by travelers who are pasted completely from India.
“The day after they announced this, there were nearly 50,000 questions for visas for this country as a whole,” Industrial Source said.
“Search questions for trips to international destinations have seen an average increase of 80-85% in July compared to the same time last month.
With some countries relieving travel restrictions, interest in international travel for countries such as Maldives, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar, Turkey, Nepal and France increased, “Ixigo said in a statement.