Thailand govt renews contract with VFS Global for visa processing across India

Mumbai: VFS Global on Tuesday said the Thailand government has renewed a contract with it to process visa applications from India.

The visa services provider will cater to travellers from India across visa categories through visa application centres and drop off centres as per the jurisdiction of the Royal Thai Embassy in Delhi and Royal Thai Consulate General in Kolkata, Mumbai, and Chennai, VFS Global said in a statement.

As a part of the mandate, VFS Global will roll out drop box services in tier II cities such as Ranchi, Aurangabad, Bhopal, Indore, Nagpur, Nasik, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Thiruvananthapuram and Vijayawada.

Currently, this service is available at Agra, Amritsar, Dehradun, Jaipur, Ludhiana, Guwahati, Patna, Bihar, Bhubaneswar, Jamshedpur, Siliguri and Visakhapatnam.

The VFS Global's newest visa application centre (VAC) in Lucknow, which had a drop box facility earlier, will also accept applications for Thailand visas.