Visa application centres in New Delhi

Before your appointment in New Delhi

1. 1Match your appointment letter to the building: 27 K.G. Marg for the UK, Ireland, Cyprus and the Schengen desks, Shivaji Stadium Metro Station for Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, the UAE, South Africa and Greece, and 28 Barakhamba Road for Spain.
2. 2Finish any online stage first: IRCC for Canada, France-Visas for France, GVCW’s form for Greece, and the online-filled form that BLS centres under the New Delhi embassy require for Spain.
3. 3Check that the New Delhi mission covers you: Poland goes by the place of issue or the address in your passport or Aadhaar card, Hungary by your last six months of residence.
4. 4Planning to send a Polish file through an agent? The Polish VFS page says submission through travel agents is not allowed.
5. 5Order the flight reservation and hotel booking for the day of the slot, or the evening before a morning one, check each name against the passports, and print the file in checklist order.

Which Delhi building handles which country

Delhi’s desks are split across three addresses, all with the 110001 postcode in and around Connaught Place. VFS Global’s main building is 27 K.G. Marg (Kasturba Gandhi Marg), which reports of the January 2026 move call VFS Global House. It holds the UK, Ireland and Cyprus plus the Schengen desks of Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Malta, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Iceland, Bulgaria and Croatia, with Italy on the 1st floor.

VFS’s second address is Shivaji Stadium Metro Station on Baba Kharak Singh Marg, where the centres are inside the station building: Canada, South Africa, the UAE and GVCW’s Greek desk on the mezzanine, Japan and New Zealand on the concourse, and Korea with no floor given. Spain is the third address, with BLS International at Dr Gopaldas Bhawan, 28 Barakhamba Road.

Getting to K.G. Marg, Shivaji Stadium and Barakhamba Road

The Shivaji Stadium desks are the easiest to reach without a car, since their address is the metro station itself, a stop on the Airport Express Line from DEL. 27 K.G. Marg and 28 Barakhamba Road are office buildings on two of the roads leading off Connaught Place. For drivers, the UK centre’s page says: “Paid valet parking is available within the building … Public parking is available within a 5 – 10 minute walk from the centre, in and around Connaught Place.”

UK and Ireland applicants in Noida or Ghaziabad can pay for the optional Premium Application Centres at the Radisson Noida, C Block, Sector 55, which open on a published schedule. Because Belgium shares 27 K.G. Marg with the UK, VFS has also offered a “Single VAC Visit” for submitting both applications together, at an extra charge.

Embassy or visa centre: who does what in Delhi

Living in the city of the embassies does not mean you hand your file to one. VFS Global, BLS International and GVCW handle the submission: they accept documents, record fingerprints and a photograph, hold passports and send the file on. The embassy or consulate decides, and you only visit it when called, as for a US visa interview at the Embassy in New Delhi.

Nor is every Delhi file decided in Delhi. Germany sends each Schengen application from any Indian centre, K.G. Marg included, to its Mumbai consulate; only German national (D) visas follow the New Delhi embassy’s district. Switzerland says its files are decided by Embassy of Switzerland staff, and the Embassy of Ireland in New Delhi decides Irish ones.

Delhi residents fall under the New Delhi missions of Italy, Spain, Hungary, Portugal, Poland, Belgium, Japan and Korea. Portugal’s page warns that VFS fees are not refunded on a booking made under the wrong jurisdiction.

Who comes to Delhi to apply, and from where

The Delhi centres are the local ones for the whole NCR, from Noida and Ghaziabad to Gurugram and Faridabad. The New Delhi missions of Italy, Japan, Hungary and Korea also list Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir in their districts, and Korea adds Ladakh.

Some applicants travel in because no other northern city has their desk. Finland, Lithuania and Croatia have no other centre in North India, Sweden’s only other one is Lucknow, and the UAE and South Korea have none in Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Jaipur or Lucknow. New Zealand’s only open centres in India are New Delhi, Chandigarh and Mumbai. From Meerut, Aligarh or Agra, Delhi is also closer than Lucknow, which lacks German, French, Italian, Spanish and Canadian desks. Applicants from Dehradun, Jammu or Srinagar can weigh Delhi against Chandigarh or Jalandhar, which cover the UK, Canada and much of Schengen.

Desks that are missing, paused or held elsewhere

Check these before planning a trip to Delhi around one of them.

• South Africa: VFS suspended all short-term visa applications for Delhi, Gurugram, Jaipur and Kolkata from 20 October 2026, “until further notice”. Mumbai is not named, so ask VFS whether a Delhi resident may apply there before you travel.
• Australia: the High Commission says only Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal are in its biometrics programme from this region, so India has no Australian centre to attend.
• Singapore: there is no Delhi centre; northern applications go to VFS Chandigarh or an authorised visa agent (see the questions below).
• United States: interviews are at the Embassy, but the biometrics centre’s address could not be confirmed for this page, so use the one on your appointment confirmation.
• UAE: the Shivaji Stadium desk handles Dubai tourist and transit visas only, and the traveller must enter and leave through Dubai airport.

Timing your flight reservation and hotel booking around a Delhi slot

If you come in from outside the NCR, by overnight train, by road or on a flight into DEL, you will probably reach Delhi the day before your slot. Order the reservation after you arrive, dated for the appointment, not before you leave home. Only the airline decides how long an unpaid hold stays in place, which is why the order belongs close to the slot. Two countries on different days, say Schengen at K.G. Marg and Japan at Shivaji Stadium later in the week, call for a reservation timed to each submission.

Schengen checklists ask for proof of accommodation, and a confirmed hotel booking gives the property, dates and guest names; the desk’s fee does not cover the stay. Nonstop flights from DEL to Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Helsinki make it easy to route the first leg into your main destination. Keep flights, hotel nights and form dates identical. A flight reservation is not a ticket to fly on, and a booking PDF someone has edited is document fraud.

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