Visa application centres in Jalandhar

Before your appointment in Jalandhar

1. 1Match the floor to your country: Canada on the 1st, the Schengen desks and Cyprus on the 2nd, and the UK, Ireland, France and Greece on the 3rd. Spain is not in Aman Plaza at all but at Maxon Tower in Urban Estate Phase 2.
2. 2For a UK appointment, pay the £76.50 user-pays fee online once the slot is reserved, or weigh it against Elante in Chandigarh, where VFS states no such fee.
3. 3For Luxembourg, book a Tuesday or a Thursday, the only submission days at the Jalandhar desk; check the provider’s page before you go.
4. 4For Japan, book in Chandigarh, New Delhi or Gurugram while the 3rd-floor Japan desk stays closed.
5. 5For a German national (D) visa, confirm on the VFS page that Jalandhar accepts it: this desk lists only the Schengen fee, while Chandigarh lists national-visa fees as well.
6. 6Complete the online steps first: France-Visas for France, an online-filled form for Spain, and GVCW’s own form and appointment system for Greece.
7. 7Order the flight reservation and hotel booking close to the appointment, check both, and print them with your form, bank papers and cover letter so all the dates agree.

Aman Plaza floor by floor

Nearly every Jalandhar desk shares one address, Aman Plaza at 310 Lajpat Nagar on Mahavir Marg, but VFS splits the countries across three floors. Your appointment letter names the floor, so read it before you join a queue. The only providers in the city are VFS Global, BLS International and GVCW; no TLScontact centre was found in India.

• 1st floor: Canada, for biometrics, applications submitted with biometrics and passport submission, all by appointment.
• 2nd floor: Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Czechia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Latvia, Iceland, Bulgaria and Cyprus.
• 3rd floor: the UK, Ireland and France through VFS, and Greece through GVCW, which keeps its own appointment system.
• 3rd floor, Japan: listed as “Monday – Wednesday – Friday: Temporary closed” for business, submission and collection.
• Maxon Tower, 2nd Floor, Phase 2, Urban Estate: Spain, through BLS International.

Finding Aman Plaza and Maxon Tower

VFS describes the Aman Plaza junction in two ways. Some country pages say “Nakodar Chowk, (opposite to lovely autos)”, others “Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chowk”, but the building is the same, at 310 Lajpat Nagar, Mahavir Marg, PIN 144001. Either name should be familiar locally, and the Lovely Autos landmark across the road is the one VFS itself gives.

Spain’s BLS centre is in another part of the city, on the 2nd floor of Maxon Tower in Urban Estate Phase 2, PIN 144022. A Spanish file cannot be dropped off on the way out of Aman Plaza, so plan it as a trip of its own.

Jalandhar sits on the GT Road between Ludhiana and Amritsar, and its railway station is on the line that links them, which makes a same-day trip practical for many applicants from either city.

Who applies in Jalandhar, and which mission decides

The centre serves the Doaba belt between the Beas and the Sutlej (Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur and Nawanshahr), where many families have relatives settled in the UK and Canada. It also takes Amritsar and its neighbouring districts, and much of Ludhiana, because neither Amritsar nor Ludhiana has a regular visa centre: each has only an optional UK and Ireland premium centre. Typical files are study permits and student visas for Canada and the UK, visitor visas for parents going to see a son or daughter abroad, family visits and European holidays.

Where a mission publishes a jurisdiction rule, Punjab usually belongs to New Delhi. Italy, Spain, Hungary, Belgium, Portugal and Japan all say so, and Portugal names the Jalandhar centre among those its Delhi Embassy covers; a Portuguese booking made under the wrong jurisdiction gets no refund of VFS fees. Germany widens the choice instead: a German Schengen slot can be booked at any VFS centre in India, and every such file is decided at the German Consulate General in Mumbai.

UK applicants: Jalandhar, Chandigarh or a premium centre

The UK desk on the 3rd floor is a “user pays” centre. Its page says “This Visa Application Centre has an additional fee of £76.50 to use it”, payable online after you reserve the appointment. VFS explains that where demand is low “an additional fee is charged to cover the provision of a user pays Visa Application Centre”, and calls it “a regulated fee set by the Home Office”.

VFS states no such fee for the UK centre at Elante in Chandigarh. Two optional premium centres may be closer for some families: the Radisson Blu on Airport Road in Amritsar, open for the UK on Thursdays, and the Park Plaza on Ferozepur Road in Ludhiana, open on Wednesdays. Each charges £80 and warns that it “does not expedite the processing” of the application. Ireland runs premium days at both hotels for INR 9,000. Opening days change, so check the provider’s page before you go.

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

Thirteen countries on the VFS lists leave Jalandhar out, and the US and Australia, both in heavy demand across Punjab, have no centre in the city either. Chandigarh is the nearer alternative for most of the thirteen.

• Chandigarh (Elante, unit B 209): Denmark, Norway, Poland, Malta, Estonia, New Zealand and Singapore, plus Japan at B 208 while the Jalandhar desk is closed.
• New Delhi (#27 K.G. Marg): Sweden, Finland, Lithuania and Croatia.
• New Delhi (Shivaji Stadium Metro Station): the UAE and South Africa, and South Korea, whose Embassy covers Punjab.
• United States: no US biometrics centre was found in Jalandhar. Interviews are held at the Embassy in New Delhi and the consulates, so use the addresses on your own appointment confirmation.
• Australia: no biometrics centre anywhere in India, because India is not part of Australia’s biometrics programme.

Timing your flight reservation and hotel booking for an Aman Plaza slot

Many applicants travel in from Amritsar, Hoshiarpur or Ludhiana for a morning appointment, and that shapes the timing. The airline holding an unpaid seat decides how long the hold lasts, and it may cancel the hold whenever it likes. Place the order the evening before you set out, or early on the day itself, and compare the names and dates with your passport as soon as it arrives, so a problem shows up before you leave home.

Reserve the route you would really fly. For Doaba families that often means a departure from Amritsar (ATQ), where Qatar Airways flies to Doha, or from Delhi, and the same departure city should appear on the cover letter.

Where a checklist asks for accommodation proof, a confirmed hotel booking with matching dates completes the file; it is held with the property in your name, and our fee does not pay for the stay. Never hand in an edited ticket PDF in place of a real reservation: that is document fraud. A flight reservation cannot be used to fly.

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