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The Consulate was inaugurated on 21 November 2008 by Foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier in the presence of ambassador to India Bernd Mützelburg and Consul General Stefan Graf in rented premises located in the CBD of Bangalore; however, the post was not to begin processing visa and work permit applications till 2011. [1]
Between 2005 and 2007, a security flaw in the VFS Global application website for the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office resulted in many visa applications from India, Nigeria and Russia being publicly accessible. [12] Sensitive data stored in VFS's online service could be accessed by simply altering the VFS website's URL address. [12]
In 2015, Iran revoked visa-on-arrival for Indian citizens after it was included as one of the eight countries in India's Prior Reference Category, which would be excluded from India's visa liberalisation plans for foreign tourists. [486] The other countries on the list at the time were Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria and Sudan. [486]
BLS International is a New Delhi-based company that provide visa, passport, consular, and citizen services. The company was founded in 2005 and operates in over 66 countries across five continents. The company was founded in 2005 and operates in over 66 countries across five continents.
The Consulate General has under its control the visa application centres located at Chennai, Hyderabad, [10] Bangalore, [11] and Kochi, [12] with the Chennai Consulate assessing all applications. [12] As of 2011, the Chennai centre was receiving 400 to 600 visa applications per day. [13]
This is a list of diplomatic missions in India. There are 158 embassies/high commissions in New Delhi, and many countries maintain consulates in other Indian cities. [1] Most of these diplomatic missions in Delhi are located in Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave.
From 1 April 2017 e-visas are granted under three categories of tourist, business and medical. The window for application under e-visa scheme was increased from 30 days to 120 days, and duration of stay on e-visa was increased from 30 days to 60 days, with double entry on e-tourist and e-business visa, and triple entry on e-medical visa. [83]
The Chennai Consulate issued 142,565 non-immigrant visas in 2010 — the most among Mission India's five consular sections, [30] up from 7,500 non-immigrant visa applications in 1992. The Consulate conducts an average of 1,200 to 1,400 interviews every day, which has gone up to 1,800 in a day, with an average refusal rate of 20 percent. [ 31 ]