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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 fresh.

Dear Applicants, please note the seats for appointment for Family Reunion and Work permit are open till 31st December 2009. If there are no yellow seats available it is booked out for the above mentioned time. Please be informed that applicants need to come to the centre ten (10) minutes prior to their scheduled appointment.

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.

Please be informed that Effective from 1st April, 2009 Italy, Visa fee for Short Stay would be Naira 11,600 and Long Stay would be Naira 14,500 respectively.

Please be informed, Effective from 16th February, 2009 VFS Logistic fee would be Naira 6798 (Including VAT).

Kindly note that for now the dates available for tourist and business for scheduling an appointment are for the month of March, 09, April,09 and May09 If there are no yellow seats available it is booked out for the above mentioned time.

Dear Applicants, please note the seats for appointment for Family Reunion and Work permit are open till 30th September 2009 only. If there are no yellow seats available it is booked out for the above mentioned time.
Please be informed that applicants need to come to the centre ten (10) minutes prior to their scheduled appointment.

Welcome to the website of Italian Visa and Legalization Application Centre (IVLAC) in Nigeria

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 web site are 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 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 24 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 and Sweden. 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 in order to be able to submit their application at least 15 days before the expected date of departure.

Any inconvenience ensued by this new regulation is deeply regretted.