Visa application centres in Chandigarh

Before your appointment in Chandigarh

1. 1Check the suite on your booking: B-611-612 (6th floor, Gate 2) for the UK and Ireland, C313-315 (3rd floor) for Canada, or B 209 (2nd floor, Office Block B, Gate 3) for the Schengen desks, Cyprus, New Zealand and Singapore.
2. 2For Spain, go to Piccadilly Square in Sector 34A, not Elante, and fill in the form online first: centres under the Spanish Embassy in New Delhi “will only accept online filled visa application form for all visa categories”.
3. 3Finish any online stage your country sets before the visit: the France-Visas form ahead of a French slot, applyvisa.um.dk for Denmark, and GVCW’s own form and booking system for Greece.
4. 4For Canada, note which of the three services you booked at C313-315: submission with biometrics, biometrics only, or passport submission.
5. 5For Japan, carry the INR 800 service fee as a demand draft, since the B 208 desk lists it as “Demand Draft Only”.
6. 6Confirm which mission decides your file: Italy, Spain, Belgium, Hungary and Japan all list Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh under New Delhi.
7. 7Order the flight reservation and hotel booking for the appointment date, check both, and print them with the form, cover letter and insurance so every date in the file agrees.

Which Elante suite handles which country

VFS Global runs nearly all of Chandigarh’s desks from the Elante Office Block on Plot 178-178A, Industrial Area Phase 1, yet the countries are divided between three suites with their own floors and gates. Match your country to its unit at home rather than in the lobby. TLScontact was not found running a centre anywhere in India, so every Chandigarh desk belongs to VFS Global, BLS International or GVCW.

• Units B-611-612, 6th floor, entry from Gate No. 2: the UK and Ireland.
• Units C313-315, 3rd floor: Canada, for biometrics, applications with biometrics and passport submission.
• Unit B 209, 2nd floor, Office Block B, entry from Gate No. 3: Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Malta, Latvia, Estonia, Iceland and Bulgaria, plus Cyprus (in the EU but outside Schengen), New Zealand and Singapore.
• Also on the 2nd floor: Japan gives its unit as B 208, and the Netherlands as B-208/209.
• Unit B209: Greece, handled by GVCW rather than VFS and booked on GVCW’s own system.
• 105, 1st Floor, Piccadilly Square, Sector-34A: Spain, through BLS International.

Getting to Elante and to Piccadilly Square

Elante is the shopping and office development in Industrial Area Phase 1, one of the best-known addresses in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula. The visa desks are in the office blocks, not on the mall floors, so walk to the gate your address names: Gate No. 2 for the UK and Ireland, Gate No. 3 for Office Block B. Canada’s record names no gate, so follow the directions on your appointment letter.

Spain needs a journey of its own. BLS International receives Spanish files at Piccadilly Square in Sector 34A, inside the sector grid and away from Elante, so a Spanish and a British application cannot be handed in on the same walk across the complex.

Buses from Patiala, Ambala, Shimla and Ludhiana run into the inter-state bus terminals in Sector 17 and Sector 43; from either, Elante is a taxi or auto ride.

Who applies in Chandigarh, and which mission decides

Applicants come from the tricity of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula, from Haryana towns such as Ambala and Kurukshetra, from Himachal Pradesh, and from the Punjab districts nearer Chandigarh than Jalandhar, Patiala among them. Amritsar and Ludhiana have no regular centre, only optional UK and Ireland premium centres, so their residents choose between Jalandhar and Chandigarh. Many files belong to students bound for Canada, the UK, Australia or the US, and to parents applying to visit a child who studies or works abroad; others are family holidays in Europe and business trips.

Elante takes the file, but the decision is made elsewhere. Italy, Spain, Belgium, Hungary and Japan place Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh under their missions in New Delhi. Hungary and Spain look at where you have lived for the past six months, and Poland at the place of issue or the address in your passport or Aadhaar card. Germany forwards every Schengen file taken in India to its Consulate General in Mumbai and lets you book a Schengen slot at any VFS centre in the country, while its national (D) visas stay with the New Delhi Embassy.

Chandigarh desks that are rare in North India

Several desks at Elante have no counterpart elsewhere in the region, so applicants from Jalandhar, Amritsar and beyond sometimes have to make the trip here.

• Singapore: VFS lists just two Singapore centres in India, Chandigarh and Chennai, and calls itself “the official partner of Consulate-General of the Republic of Singapore in India”.
• New Zealand: Chandigarh is one of only three open New Zealand centres in India, with Mumbai and New Delhi, and VFS describes its role as “Passport handling for online application”. Since 1 October 2026, selected visitor and transit visas go through the enhanced Immigration Online system of Immigration New Zealand.
• National visas for Germany and Poland: the German desk lists national-visa and D-visa stamping fees, and Poland’s Chandigarh centre takes both national (D) and Schengen files. Jalandhar has no Polish desk.
• Denmark, Norway, Malta and Estonia: each has a desk at Elante and none in Jalandhar. Denmark wants its online form and fee completed on applyvisa.um.dk before you come.
• The UK without a surcharge: VFS states no “user pays” fee for its Elante centre, whereas the Jalandhar UK centre adds £76.50.

Countries you cannot apply for in Chandigarh, and where to go instead

For most of these the answer is New Delhi, a few hours away by road or train. Australia is the exception, with no centre anywhere in India.

• Sweden, Finland, Lithuania and Croatia: VFS at #27 K.G. Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi; Sweden also has a desk in Lucknow.
• South Korea: the Embassy in New Delhi covers Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and uses the VFS Korea centre at Shivaji Stadium Metro Station. The VFS India Korea site serves the Mumbai consulate only.
• The UAE and South Africa: VFS at Shivaji Stadium Metro Station, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi.
• United States: no US biometrics centre was found in Chandigarh. Interviews are held at the Embassy in New Delhi and the consulates in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata, so take the exact addresses from your own confirmation.
• Australia: India is outside Australia’s biometrics programme, and the High Commission says “Currently, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal are included in the biometrics program from this region”. There is no appointment to book.

Timing your flight reservation and hotel booking for an Elante slot

The airline, not the visa desk, decides how long an unpaid seat stays held, and that differs from one airline to the next. Order it for the day of your Elante or Sector 34A appointment, or the evening before an early slot, and read every name on it against the passports the moment it reaches you.

Travelling in from Shimla, Patiala or Ambala, place the order from home before you set out, so the booking is checked and printed before the journey. Many long-haul plans from Chandigarh begin with a Delhi connection, so reserve the route you would really fly and name the same departure city on your form and cover letter.

Where the checklist asks for proof of accommodation, add a confirmed hotel booking for the same dates as the flights: a reservation with the property in your name, though our fee does not pay for the stay. The flight reservation is held without payment and cannot be used to fly, and a ticket PDF altered to show a booking that never existed is document fraud.

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