Send your application by post

You can complete your visa application form online and send your completed application directly as per your county jurisdiction to the London or Birmingham application centers in the following addresses:

For High Commision of India, London County Jurisdiction:

India Visa Application Center
1-3, Canalside,
Uxbridge road
Hayes, Middlesex, UB4 0JN.

For Consulate General of India, Birmingham County Jurisdiction:

India Visa Application Center
20-21 Pemberton St, Birmingham B-18 6NY

For Consulate General of India, Edinburgh County Jurisdiction:

India Visa Application Center
66 Handover Buildings Rose Street,
Edinburgh EH2 2NN

Along with your completed application form and documents please include a

• 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 for the same at 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.

Kindly include a postal order as the mode of payment favoring "V F Services (UK) Ltd-London (For London Applicants) and V F Services (UK) Ltd-Birmingham (For Birmingham Applicants) and V F Services (UK) Ltd-Edinburgh" while applying through Royal Mail. Do not send cash 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.

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.