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New Notice
Dear Applicants, kindly be informed that effective from 30st June, VFS Lagos and Abuja centre will collect new visa fee as per below mentioned:
Short Stay Naira 11400 (In euro 60)
Long Stay Naira 17000 (In euro 90)
Our website "Visa Fee" page will be updated by 29th June, 2010 evening with new visa fee
ABUJA APPLICATION CENTRE
Dear Applicants,
Kindly be informed that from 18th June, 2010 onwards, applicants can schedule an appointment to visit VFS Abuja Visa Application Centre to apply for Italy visa application only under short stay categories.
Seats will be opened for 18th June, 2010 and thereafter from Monday (14th June, 2010). Applicants are requested to visit VFS website www.italy-ng.com from 14th June, 2010 to schedule an appointment for 18th June, 2010 onwards at VFS Abuja Visa Application Centre.
Address: 38 Lobito Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja, Nigeria.
Submission Time: 0800hrs to 1400hrs (By Prior Appointment only).
Passport Collection Time: 1400hrs to 1600hrs.
COURIER FEE FOR ABUJA APPLICATION
Kindly be informed that a separate courier fee N6,798.00 will be paid per applicant with effect from June 18, 2010.
How to find out if your visa is ready
Dear Applicants,
After 20 working days from the submission at VFS you should start tracking the status of your application by browsing the dedicated page of our website.
You may also check by calling us at 01- 8990285 between 9am to 4pm on any working days except Saturdays and Sundays and any Holidays.
Kindly note that neither VFS nor the Consulate General of Italy would be held responsible for applicant not picking up their passports whenever they are ready for collection at VFS.
Welcome to the website of Italian Visa and Legalization Application Centre
(IVLAC) in Nigeria
Dear
Applicants, kindly be informed that from 1st January, 2010 onwards visa fee will
increase.
Please click on to Visa Fees to get the new fee structure.
RELOCATION
NOTICE
In order to improve your visa
application experience VFS will be opening a new suite of offices at:
BLOCK 94, PLOT 23
PROVIDENCE
STREET
LEKKI - EPE EXPRESSWAY
LEKKI SCHEME I
LAGOS
.
Last date for applications at our
V/I office will be 1st of April 2010.
Please be informed that as from
06th April 2010 VFS shall be operating from the new office.
VFS has been appointed as an outsourced partner by the Italian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs in order to facilitate the visa applications and legalization
of documents and to schedule appointments for visa submission and legalization
of Nigerian certificates.
Effective 15th September 2008 you can pay the service charge at GT bank
branches and take an appointment for the submission of your documents for the
Italian Visa at the Italy visa & legalization application center, Lagos.
Visa applicants and people requiring certificate legalization can now easily,
quickly and safely book their appointments on-line at their own convenience
before coming to the application center.
This website contains all information concerning the procedures for
appointment booking as well as details about the submission of visa
applications, so visa applicants are strongly recommended to carefully read
all sections of this web site in order to identify the type of visa meeting
their requirement at best. It has to be noted that all visa applications have
to be submitted at the Italian visa and legalization application center
in Lagos.
Important to note:
The application for a Schengen visa has to be made in the Consulate of the
country where the MAIN PURPOSE OF TRAVEL lies. Therefore, please check your
travel plans before making your application . In case you are planning to
travel to multiple Schengen countries, please make your application to the
Consulate where you are going to stay for a longer time.
As of 21st December 2007, nine European countries (the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) have joined
the Schengen Agreement. This means that the Schengen area includes now 25
European Countries: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. New regulations have been established
and the visa processing time has lengthened to two weeks.
Applicants are therefore recommended to schedule their appointments well in
advance, but at most three (3) months from the date of submission of application. For any first time or frequent tourism purpose, applicants are advised
to schedule at most 3 months in advance to be able to schedule an
appointment and to apply at VFS centre.
Any inconvenience ensued by this new regulation is deeply regretted.
Dear Applicant for any tourist/Business or Conference
application, your passport validity should be minimum 9 months from the date of
departure for Italy.
Dear Applicants, please be informed that before applying for "
Family Re-Union" application on our website,make sure, you are having all
documents' legalized and your passport should be having proper validity of 18
months from the day of your application.other wise, you will be turned back to
apply afresh.
Dear Applicants, please note the seats for appointment for Family Reunion and Work permit are opend till December 2010.
Dear applicants, please be informed that for any collection of
passports, applicant himself or herself needs to come to VFS centre physically.
Other wise, passport would not be given back. Even if husband and wife applied
together, for any collection purpose, they have to come either together or
separately to collect their individual passports.
First time and Frequent Tourist category
applicants are advised to schedule for appointment to apply visa at VFS at
most 2 months well in advance to avoid any disappointment of no
availability of seats. Same goes with first time business category applicants.
Please be informed that applicants need to come to the centre
ten (10) minutes prior to their scheduled appointment.
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