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Centralised Postal Processing Center
With Effect from the 22nd of April 2009, all postal applications are
processed at our centralised Postal Unit below.
Hayes
India Visa Application Center 
1-3, Canalside,
Uxbridge Road
Hayes, Middlesex, UB4 0JN
Please check details below before you post your visa application.
Postal Process:
You can complete your visa application form online and send your completed application along with your valid passport, two passport size photographs and copy of the requisite documents directly to our postal application centre. Please refer our website for the Documents Required for the different visa categories. Please send your application through Royal Mail Special delivery service or a courier in order to avoid any loss in transit. VF Services UK Ltd., will not bear responsibility for any loss in transit.
Please ensure that you must print the visa application form duly completed
& signed when posting to our postal Visa Application Centre.
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Self addressed Special Delivery Envelope (SDE) for return of processed
passports. Please remember maximum two processed passports shall be returned in
one envelope. Hence, as an example, for a family of three please include two
SDEs.
In case you haven't paid online, please send a Postal order with the visa fees
and service charges. Once we receive your passport from the High Commission or
Consulate General, we can return it to you in the SDE.
If you're unable to send the SDE envelope, VFS can arrange to return your
documents through secured delivery by DX secure, the UK’s leading independent
courier and Mail Company for a nominal charge of £7.40, maximum
TWO passports per envelope. You are requested to pay the
charges for the same along with the visa fees and VFS service charges.
With effect from the 20thof July 2009, India Visa application center
in Hayes has been using DX secure for returning the documents to the applicants
who wish to buy the envelope from us for a nominal charge of £7.40. DX secure
www.thedx.co.uk offer a trusted, reliable and secure service with a
signed for delivery by the recipient. This service will be accordingly extended
to all India Visa application centers in the U.K and it is not affected by the
Royal mail strike.
Mode of Payment
Kindly include a postal order as the mode of payment favouring "V F Services
(UK) Ltd-London" while applying through Royal Mail. Do not send cash or
credit card details along with your application via post.
If a family or a group is applying for a visa together, they can pay the visa
fees and the service charges for all the members by one draft or postal order.
Postal applications need a minimum of 10 working days to
be processed. This does not include the period they are in transit to and from
the High Commission or the Consulate General. Application once
sent in post can not be withdrawn unless there is an emergency for which
documentary evidence shall be required. VF Services UK Ltd, shall
not bear responsibility for any delays in postal transit or loss in transit
owing to third party involved.
Please note:
Incomplete applications or applications with insufficient funds will not be
processed and shall be returned.
Please finalize your travel arrangements only after you obtain an appropriate
visa.
Processing Time:
Postal applications need a minimum of 10 working days
to be processed. This does not include the period they are in transit to and
from the High Commission or the Consulate General.
Important Note: The postal application will take 1-2 additional days due
to the Re-direction of post from our Birmingham and Edinburgh centers to the
Centralised Postal Unit at Hayes.
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