For the convenience of the residents of Tamil Nadu we offer to provide quick, economical & hassle free visa services. Plans to open more Spain Visa Application Centers in South India.
In a move to bring enhanced visa application services to the residents of Tamil Nadu, BLS International, a specialist provider for Outsourcing of Visa, Passport and Attestation Services to the Client Governments across the world, announced the opening of their first Spanish Visa Application Center (VAC) in Chennai.
After winning the global contract from the Government of Spain in December, 2016, this is the 3rd Spanish Visa Application center opened in India, after New Delhi and Mumbai. The company currently operates 78 Spain Visa Application Centers spread across 37 countries.
The visa center has been designed and staffed to provide quick, economical & hassle free visa services to the residents of Tamil Nadu, supported by experienced staff who work with the cutting-edge technology to process the applications and enable speedy biometrics capture. It is envisaged in future that the center will offer value added services like SMS service alert, photocopy service and convenient courier services to the applicants.
Mr. Shikhar Aggarwal, Joint Managing Director, BLS International Services Limited shares, “BLS International has always endeavored to offer first-class services to its customers. We charge the applicant a nominal fee under the umbrella of word class services given in return to them. Our dedicated and pro-active staff is always ready to cater to the needs of the applicants. We aim to revolutionize the Spanish Visa application experience and the newly launched center in Chennai is yet another milestone. Since the commencement of the operations on the 19thDecember 2016, we have processed in excess of 200 applications per day across India and expect the numbers to grow by 20 % this year. With the opening of new centers in India it will further strengthen ties to the South market for both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and BLS International. We are looking at processing approximately 1.8 million applications annually through our global network.”
With Spain becoming a popular tourist destination and PM Narendra Modi likely to visit Spain this May to boost strategic and investment partnership, these visa application centers will help grow the India-Spain partnership, and increase tourism in Spain.
The journey so far for The BLS International is a milepost after it partnered with Spain MAEC (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation) in December 2016, marking its entry into the Schengen market. Under this 5-year contract, which is worth 175 million euro (Rs. 1,300 crore), BLS international targets to open 129 Spanish visa application centers in 45 countries to support the Embassies & Consulates of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation across the globe.
In the past month, BLS International has opened Visa Application Centers in Chengdu, Wuhan and Hangzhou In China, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Voronezh, Krasnodar, Ufa and Krasnoyarsk in Russia, Kharkiv, Lviv and Odesa in Ukraine which are fully operational to stream-line the Spanish visa process on a global scale. It currently operates Spanish VACs in 37 countries around the globe including, Russia, Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, China, India, South Africa, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Bolivia, Kuwait, Great Britain (United Kingdom and Scotland), Saudi Arabia, Dominican, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Senegal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, Vietnam, Oman, Kenya, Cameroon, Israel, Ghana, Qatar, Ukraine, Thailand, Philippines, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Tunisia and Nigeria.
Photo caption: Shikhar Aggarwal, Joint Managing Director, BLS International Services Limited
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