The Embassy of Switzerland in India has clarified that it has not suspended Schengen visa appointments for Indian tour teams. As an alternative, it mentioned that they’ve nearly “800 day by day appointments” via the tip of September 2023, which incorporates 22 teams.
Sharing the knowledge via a social media put up, the Swiss Embassy mentioned, “Individuals-to-people contact is on the core of Swiss-Indian relationship.”
In 2023, the Embassy of Switzerland in India has processed extra visa functions than it did in 2019. “We’ve surpassed our pre-pandemic occasions processing stage. From January till June, we dealt with 129,446 functions, as towards 120,071 throughout the identical interval in 2019 —a 7.8 per cent enhance,” the communication learn.
The Embassy additional mentioned that they applied varied measures because the begin of the yr to additional ease the visa utility course of for Indian candidates. These embrace boosting the general capability in India.
With a brand new Visa Software Centre (VAC) in Lucknow, there at the moment are 13 VACs throughout India, the place Swiss visa functions might be submitted.
Visa candidates in India planning a visit to Switzerland can apply for his or her visa six months forward of their date of journey, as towards one month prior to now.
With slots opening up at varied consulates throughout India, aspirants are dashing in to get their palms on them to have the ability to lastly take off to the US for a grasp’s diploma. Many of those are college students have didn’t get a legitimate visa three to 4 occasions. The F1 visa legitimate for a interval of 5 years is given to college students to pursue a masters diploma from the US.
The Swiss Embassy additional confirmed that it takes not more than 13 working days between the appointment secured at VFS Global and the Embassy’s resolution on the appliance.Earlier at this time, a number of media stories had cited that the Switzerland Embassy in India has quickly suspended group tour visas throughout the nation until begin of October citing backlog of exisiting visa functions. Nonetheless, no official affirmation was given by the Embassy.
Members of the journey commerce and VFS International additionally denied receiving any communication on behalf of the Swiss Embassy on the choice.
