Dear Applicants, please note the seats for appointment are open till 27th February 2009 only. If there are no yellow seats available it is booked out for the above mentioned time.

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.