Appointment day support
The day you submit, you’re not on your own.
₹1,899 with a verification call.
- One named person, not a helpdesk
- WhatsApp and phone
- Briefed before you leave home
Before your appointment
Know what to expect before you arrive.
Get a simple step-by-step brief for your VFS or BLS appointment. See what to carry, what happens at the centre, and which optional services you may be offered.
Walk in prepared and know what comes next.
Your heads-up brief
VFS Bengaluru
Tuesday, 24 Sep · 9:40 AM appointment
Appointment preparation
- Brief ready
- Appointment day
- Submission complete
Arrive
15 minutes before your slot
Earlier entry is usually not allowed.
Carry
Appointment letter, passport, the file in submission order, photos
Keep everything in the order it will be checked.
Leave
Bags and electronics, where the centre requires it
Centre rules differ. Yours are named on your brief.
At the counter
Document check, then biometrics, then payment
The order can shift slightly from centre to centre.
- Document check
- Biometrics
- Payment
Optional services
You may be offered paid add-ons
Decide what you want before somebody asks you in a queue.
Commonly offered at VFS and BLS centres
- SMS status updates
- Courier return of the passport
- Premium lounge or priority slot
- Photocopying and printing
- Passport photographs
Not every centre offers every one, and none of them is required for an application to be accepted.
Expected time
45 to 90 minutes inside
Varies by centre, season and queue.
Example appointment brief. Centre instructions can vary.
What you get
Three things, in the order they happen.
The evening before
A brief on your own centre
- The order the day runs in: entry and token, documents, biometrics, payment
- What to carry, and what to leave at home
- Your advisor's number, on the brief
On the day
One person, already on your file
- The same advisor on WhatsApp and on the phone
- Your documents in front of them, so nothing is explained twice
- Through our working hours, for as long as the queue takes
After you submit
What happens next
- What the receipt you are handed actually means
- When to expect news
- What to do if something at the counter did not go to plan
Questions
The ones worth answering before you pay.
No. Support is on WhatsApp and the phone. Centres do not allow anyone in beyond the applicant, so being reachable is the thing that is actually worth buying.
Our full working hours on your appointment date, whenever you need us: before you go in, while you are in the queue, and after you have submitted.
No. Tell us the new date and the support moves with it.
Verification makes the file right. This is for what the day itself throws at you. Plenty of people take one without the other, and the two together are cheaper than apart.
Nobody plans to be alone in that queue.
A brief on your own centre the evening before, and an advisor on WhatsApp and the phone through the day you submit. ₹1,000.