VFS Global, a visa outsourcing and technology partner for several governments and diplomatic missions worldwide, has achieved a milestone by processing a record 200 million visa applications. Set up in 2001, the company touched its first 100 million applications milestone in May 2015. Since then, the next 100 million applications were processed over a record four-year period.
In 2018 alone, VFS Global processed 26.7 million applications globally — the most number of visa applications processed in any single year, registering a 16 percent increase year-on-year.
Zubin Karkaria, CEO of VFS Global Group, said, “We take pride in this achievement of processing our 200 millionth visa application, with 100 million of these processed in a timespan of the last four years. We are grateful for the cooperation of the 62 client governments we serve - 18 of which were added in last four years, pointing to the trust and credibility we have built since we started this journey in 2001.”
VFS Global today has a network of over 3,000 application centers with operations in 147 countries.