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More consular services needed for the growing Indian population abroad

According to VFS Global Data, the world’s largest outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments and diplomatic missions worldwide, the increasing number of Indians living away from their home country are benefiting from these services, a report from bollyinside.com said

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The steady rise in the number of Indians living abroad has given rise to the demand for Passports and Consular services. According to VFS Global Data, the world’s largest outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments and diplomatic missions worldwide, the increasing number of Indians living away from their home country are benefiting from these services, according to a report from bollyinside.com.

“Our passports and consular services offering caters to over 7 million Indians across nine countries, — UK, US, Thailand, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, France, and Australia, on behalf of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. As per United Nations data for international migration, over 280 million individuals live and work outside their home country and we are now working with 18 governments to provide this essential service in 36 countries,” Jiten Vyas, Chief Commercial Officer of VFS Global was quoted saying in the report.

“We provide end-of-life management solutions to governments. As the market leader in visa application outsourcing in this space, our portfolio has grown seamlessly as we have been able to easily replicate our unique value proposition.”

— Jiten Vyas, Chief Commercial Officer of VFS Global

He mentioned: “We also cater to the growing diasporic population worldwide, through our Citizen and Identity Services portfolio that provides secure, and biometric-enabled services in a variety of application areas such as programmes around national IDs, permits and licensing, apart from passport services.”

VFS Global’s infrastructure features multilingual call centers with staff trained to manage emails and phone calls. The service also helps governments around the world provide safe, quality services to expatriates easily and conveniently. Leveraging our proven visa application processing experience and extensive global network in over 400 cities and over 140 countries, VFS Global is the end-to-end tool for processing passport applications and providing efficient consular services.

“We provide end-of-life management solutions to governments. As the market leader in visa application outsourcing in this space, our portfolio has grown seamlessly as we have been able to easily replicate our unique value proposition,” Vyas said. According to the Diaspora Alliance, the diaspora population has tripled in just 50 years, from about 75 million to over 230 million.

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Tirthankar Ghosh
Tirthankar Ghosh
Tirthankar Ghosh is a senior journalist and presently Managing Editor, Newsline Publications. He has also been writing for well over 15 years for the New York-based Air Cargo News Flying Typers.

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