New Visa-centre for Sweden, Denmark and Norway inaugurated

18 January 2013 | news Newsdesk

BANGKOK: -- Monday the 7 January was the inauguration for the new location at Alma Link building of the VFS visa application centre in Bangkok issuing visas for Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Present at the inauguration was Danish chargé d'affaires Mads Beyer, Norwegian Ambassador Katja Christina Nordgaard and Swedish Ambassador Klas Molin.

The issuing of visas to the three Nordic countries is outsourced to VFS-Global, a commercial company own by the Switz tourist company Kuoni Group. VFS-Global handles visa applications for 42 sovereign governments in 88 countries with 802 Visa Application Centres.

The new centre is located at 12th floor in the Alma Link Building, situated just behind Central Chidlom department store on Sukhumvit Road and is most easily accessible from Chidlom station on BTS (skytrain), using exit 3 or 5. Parking is available in the soi behind the building.

Source/map: http://www.scandasia...21&coun_code=dk

-- ScandAsia 2013-01-18

For the avoidance of doubt VFS doesn't issue the visa, as the story implies.

Decisions are still made by the visa section of the appropriate country's visa section, VFS are in effect a service to receive the application and pass onto the the visa section, and to subsequently to return the passport to the applicant when the decision has been made.

VFS cannot, or at least should not, offer advice.

I hope they do a good job of explaining the rules.

i.e. The British VFS office ended up refunding us for the cost of TB tests that they told my wife she needed to get when it wasn't actually a requirement for her visa.

For the avoidance of doubt VFS doesn't issue the visa, as the story implies.

Decisions are still made by the visa section of the appropriate country's visa section, VFS are in effect a service to receive the application and pass onto the the visa section, and to subsequently to return the passport to the applicant when the decision has been made.

VFS cannot, or at least should not, offer advice.

For a UK visa at Rajadamri House, one of the staff rejected my wife's application & tried to coax her into seeing a Visa agent - she had his card in her handbag!

For the avoidance of doubt VFS doesn't issue the visa, as the story implies.

Decisions are still made by the visa section of the appropriate country's visa section, VFS are in effect a service to receive the application and pass onto the the visa section, and to subsequently to return the passport to the applicant when the decision has been made.

VFS cannot, or at least should not, offer advice.

For a UK visa at Rajadamri House, one of the staff rejected my wife's application & tried to coax her into seeing a Visa agent - she had his card in her handbag!

You really should report that to the UKBA.

Indeed; if any VFS staff member tries to do this then they are breaking their terms of employment with VFS and the terms of the contract between VFS and the embassy concerned.

So you really should report the person concerned to both VFS and the embassy.