Indian Origin BLS International inaugurates its Spain Visa Application Centre in Algeria
Kolkata / New Delhi, Feb 21 (IBNS): The Spain Visa Application Centre was formally inaugurated in El-Biar – Algiers, by the Ambassador of Spain in Algeria and senior officials from BLS International Services Ltd., on 08th February, 2018. Today, the company is operating 124 Spain visa application centres in 49 countries and this is the 2nd centre launched in Algeria.
The center will be processing applications for all types of visas including tourist, business and family or transit visas to Spain.
BLS International Services Ltd, is among world’s largest Indian specialist service provider for outsourcing of visa, passport, attestation and citizen services to the governments and diplomatic missions globally, won the Spanish visa outsourcing contract in December 2016.
BLS International Services Ltd in February also posted revenues of Rs. 584.42 crore, registering exponential growth of 33% for another quarter (Q3 FY18).
Guest of honour for the inauguration, His Excellency D. Santiago Cabanas Ansorena, commended during his welcome address about the infrastructure of the Spain Visa Application Centre (VAC) and was positive that the commenced Spain visa services by BLS International will be best-in-class in Algeria. He expressed his pleasure, appreciating the inclusion of different Value Added Services (VAS) by BLS at the centre like SMS tracking, photocopying, photo booth and courier services for the convenience of the applicants.
The inauguration was also witnessed by Consulate Generals of Spain, Russia and Greece, the Visa Heads of Spain and Greece and Head of Protocols from Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs amongst other notables.
Commenting on the launch, Shikhar Aggarwal, Joint Managing Director, BLS International, said, “Each new practice or step of BLS is carried forward with the objective of keeping the “Customer First Approach”. With an expertise of more than a decade in visa processing services, we always intent to achieve this primary goal and have proved our grit working successfully with 36 diplomatic mission globally. With international travel on the rise, we continue to build on our robust expert resources and expect to offer seamless, faster and convenient services at all levels of visa application.”
The application center is centrally located and has well trained staff to handle applicants’ queries while the website is user-friendly and informative. It is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and has the capability to service other Schengen countries jointly with prior approval from Spanish Mission.
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