Indian Visa Service in The Netherlands

Larkilli

When i applied for my Visa in february, i found out that instead of having to travel to Den Haag (i live in Amsterdam), i could have asked for my visa at this very practical Visa office in town ... and that was a real good finding!

So for all of you people living in Amsterdam, here's some info and contact details for the Indian Visa Service:


Indian Visa Service "Het VisumBuro"

Veemarkt 230
1019 DG Amsterdam

Opening Hours office Amsterdam 09.00 - 17.00


"Visa applications can be delivered at our counter between 09.00-17.00, but will not ready for collection on the same day. These applications are ready for pickup at the 3rd workingday. Only for Dutch passports, EU passports with valid residence permit or registration cityhall and only for tourist and business visa. Issuing visa is at the discretion of the Embassy. Same applies for other Nationalities and other types of visas."


- Indian Visa Service (general info)

- Het VisumBuro (site in dutch)


Happy Visa everybuddy!

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machadinha

Good post Larkilli, and good news for all Dutchies.

To add, and this is just from the info on those sites, I've no direct experience with it:

It would appear that the whole visa issuing process has been outsourced to those two companies, who reside in both Amsterdam and Den Haag (The Hague). It appears at least the Visa Service handles applications by mail as well, or even prefers this. The VisumBuro says it also has an office in Brussels (Belgium); crummiest site I've seen in a while btw, haven't looked at it very in-depth.

Going by those sites, the Embassy of India in The Hague no longer handles visa applications for holders of Dutch passports, EU passports with valid residence permit or registration cityhall and only for tourist and business visa. It seems that all other applications will still be handled by the embassy.

http://www.indianvisaservice.nl/pages/EN/index.php :

http://www.indianembassy.nl/page181000.htm :

* Note: That site given by the Embassy for the VV Visumdienst is actually yet another third one, has English info as well: http://www.visumdienstindia.nl

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