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VFS Global Reviews Summary

VFS Global has a rating of 1.4 stars from 359 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with VFS Global most frequently mention customer service, visa application and error message. VFS Global ranks 106th among Travel Visas sites.

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AE
1 review
3 helpful votes
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We wasted all our time trying to login to this stupid platform, unbelievable. They are not able even to create a website that works properly…

Date of experience: June 15, 2023
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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The call center experience is awful. They do not have knowledge and misdirected my passport application.I would have given zero stars if available.
Returned good passport with damaged reason
The review given after vfs application is full of spelling mistakes and humanly not possible to understand their english. Very careless instructions and they keep asking for additional document which are not mentioned in application.
They are money minded and charge insane amount of $2.40 per minute to call their call center.
Indian government should revoke their contract immediately and save consumers.

Date of experience: June 13, 2023
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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The staff at the vfs visa application centre in Brussels were excellent.They were dedicated to help me and did all that they could to enabke my travel to india following my backpaxk getting stollen with passport and oci. Well done.moat effiicient and helpful.

Date of experience: June 13, 2023
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I had an appointment for an Austrian Schengen visa today and it was the most humiliating day ever. I was there for 5 hours and the treatment from their employees is far from worst. I also saw one of them be very rude and yell at an elderly person. I never leave reviews, but I hope this will help in a way. I love Austria so much, it's culture and heritage but I would never want to go through this experience. They also charged me $200 for printing papers. I felt like a second class human being and I was there with my child for hours. Their website is the worst as well.

Date of experience: June 12, 2023
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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VFS global customer care number
700.3041.460===700.3041.460
VFS global customer care number
700.3041.460===700.3041.460
VFS global customer care number
700.3041.460===700.3041.460

Date of experience: June 10, 2023
Australia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Appalling service
June 2, 2023

Sadly it seems VFS has a monopoly on visa applications. Which is a shame. Their website is terrible, no details and vague info regards premium packages. No helpline and no help offered at the centre. Apparently sent out passport back via courier, refused to give us details of tracking-still waiting after one week. Truly terrible customer service

Date of experience: June 2, 2023
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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MINUS 10 stars.
June 1, 2023

Their website is virtually inoperable. One gets strange messages about clearing cache and all cookies.
Phone service if they answer is totally and completely useless. Why does the French govt outsource to such idiots? Are they trying to drive everyone into the $500 expedited Visa?

Date of experience: June 1, 2023
New York
1 review
24 helpful votes
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It is unbelievable that the government of India has outsourced basic consular services to a for-profit third-party that charges ridiculously high prices. It is even worse that their website frequently does not work. To add insult to injury, they have the audacity to charge $2.48 PER MINUTE if you want to contact them by phone for any help!

Shame on all parties involved - since there is no choice we have.

Date of experience: May 31, 2023
AE
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Worst Experience
May 31, 2023

VFS is designed to cause you maximum difficulty and play on your anxieties ruthlessly.They charge exorbitant money just to act as forwarding agents for your documents

Date of experience: May 31, 2023
India
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Hopeless service
May 29, 2023

Hopeless service. They are closed for passport collection/delivery when the US embassy is closed for Memorial day. The staff is not well informed and are very rude to the customers. I do not understand the reason behind closing the delivery of passports if the embassies are closed. They do not have any contact numbers to contact. Very disappointed with their attitude and response.

Date of experience: May 29, 2023
South Africa
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Worst service
May 23, 2023

I have been trying to book an appointment for 4 days now. Site doesn't work. Went in to ask for booking (12:00) and was told to come back at 14:00 as everyone was on lunch? 2 hour lunch? I would literally rate SA home affairs higher than VFS.

Date of experience: May 23, 2023
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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In 3 months I couldn't book an appointment for italian visa. The system say that I exceed my login limits when I was login in the morning first time. Very bad system

Date of experience: May 20, 2023
Oregon
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Its pathetic that govt of India still uses such an outdated tech company for its services! Shame!

Date of experience: May 18, 2023
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My Indian passport renewal got rejected for absolutely no reason. It was rejected in 1 day citing that I did not select anything for change of address which I did not request in the first place. They could have kept it on hold and ask me if they had any confusion. I gave the address proof and the same address was on the passport which was expiring and I wanted the same address to be present in the passport. I am furious with this level of service and harassing people for a regular job.

Date of experience: May 18, 2023
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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$#*!ing garbage
May 16, 2023

Website is really slow, does not work at all.

It is an absolute shame that this is the only way to visit europe.

Does not deserve to exist.

Date of experience: May 16, 2023
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I know you don't care about, but you don't have to treat people like they are worthless.and you do. Nobody has time to spend hours for getting a tourist visa. Get a proper, working website. Nothing works properly. Hire more people if needed. After all you are making money without giving any service...

Date of experience: May 16, 2023
Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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In spite of booking an appointment, made you wait for more than 3 hours due to staff shortage. Should not be taking appointments if they don't have staff to attend to you. Worst experience ever!

Date of experience: May 12, 2023
India
1 review
2 helpful votes
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VFS Gobal is getting overburdened as the number of visa applications has increased tremendously.
Even after submitting all my documents to VFS Global half of the submitted and scanned documents did not reach the Embassy.
As a client who even opted for their lounge service they were unable to provide the service that they are meant to deliver.
The staff and employees working have little or no idea of the work they are doing and cant answer basic queries that a client may have. The door staff standing right outside the lounge area did not know that he is standing outside the lounge.
Its not just me but many clients of VFS Global are not at all happy with the poor service that they provide at higher costs. Waiting for an alternative option to hit the market and take over.

Date of experience: May 12, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The London Branch is really good in comparison to Manchester! The Manchester branch should learn from the London branch. The staff (booth 1, appointment at 9 o'clock)in lvl 3 Italy visa were kind,polite and understanding. She genuinely helped me and explained what other documents I needed to get. Incredibly smooth process.The waiting time was really reasonable 30minutes. Whereas in Manchester it was 3 hours.

Date of experience: May 10, 2023
Switzerland
1 review
5 helpful votes
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In this actual world where reviews plays a lot in a company future, it seems that VSF does not care about what comes. Does it not call the company that many people come and complain with rude words and the minimum rating about the service? (maybe it is not important because you hold the monopole?). Reaching the customer service is a living hell + money waste. The service when you go on site is not better. Not all, but most of the employees behave as they are from another planet. Kindly do something.

Date of experience: May 9, 2023