{"id":243570,"date":"2021-07-13T19:40:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T02:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=243570"},"modified":"2021-07-13T19:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T02:42:36","slug":"vfs-global-to-start-in-person-applications-sf-indian-consulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/vfs-global-to-start-in-person-applications-sf-indian-consulate\/","title":{"rendered":"VFS Global to Start in-person Applications: SF Indian Consulate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a release issued by the Consulate General of India in San Francisco, starting\u00a0July 15, 2021, VFS Global, the outsourcing service provider for consular services for the Consulate General of India, San Francisco will start accepting in-person applications for Passport, OCI, Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) and Global Entry Program (GEP) services at its center with prior appointment only. The current practice of accepting the applications by Mail will also continue.<\/p>\n<p>An applicant is required to visit the VFS Global Website <a href=\"https:\/\/services.vfsglobal.com\/usa\/en\/ind\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/services.vfsglobal.com\/usa\/en\/ind\/<\/a> for online submission of applications (at the Government of India portals) for respective services. They can make an appointment for in-person submission of applications at the VFS Global Center (228 Grant Ave, Floor 5,\u00a0San Francisco, CA &#8211; 94108).\u00a0 At this stage, the applicant is required to pay the service fee of $15.90 to VFS Global. Other charges, i.e., the Government of India fee and the ICWF charges and for optional services (e.g. for return courier), if any, will need to be paid at the VFS Center.<\/p>\n<p>The applicants are advised to carry all the required documentation to VFS Global as per the check-lists for the respective services at the scheduled time of appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a release issued by the Consulate General of India in San Francisco, starting\u00a0July 15, 2021, VFS Global, the outsourcing service provider for consular services for the Consulate General of India, San Francisco will start accepting in-person applications for Passport, OCI, Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) and Global Entry Program (GEP) services at its center&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/vfs-global-to-start-in-person-applications-sf-indian-consulate\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,5,11,71],"tags":[1100,56447,3478,50,34774,4302,6454,56448,3127,37,5765],"class_list":["post-243570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-current-affairs","category-lifestyle","category-travel-lifestyle","tag-indianconsulatesf","tag-gep","tag-global-entry-program","tag-india","tag-indian-consulate","tag-oci","tag-passport","tag-police-clearance-certificate","tag-sf","tag-travel","tag-visa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}