Japan Visa Approved - Timeline & Additional Docs + VFS Delhi experience
Heyy broskis, Visa approved ! 🧿
Applied at VFS Delhi . Travelled from northeast as jurisdiction under Embassy of Japan, Delhi
Timeline : Applied on 9th April and Reached Embassy on 10th April
Approved and Dispatched on 17th April . Working days required = 5 (10,13,15,16,17). Passport received via Bluedart today. Got a single entry visa valid for 15 days.
Documents:
Apart from the usual documents mentioned in the checklist , I submitted
- Copies of my Iceland and NZ visa
- 26 AIS along with my ITRs
- Copy of my FD certificates and MF statement
- My DMC certificate and MD passing certificate (currently not employed so those are a part of my country ties)
- They accepted all these without any hassle. The only thing they refused was my travel insurance which I still mentioned in my cover letter.
My flight was prepaid and partially refundable. Accomodations were reserved without payment from Booking.com
Bass that's it . A few more things (just reiterating) -
- Detailed cover letter explaining a bit about yourself, your travel and accomodation arrangements , current status and future plans (If any ,like in my case as not employed currently) , home ties, documents attached , intent to return and compliance with visa conditions help a lot.
- Detailed day to day itinerary with accomodation address and phone number .
- Also they accept photo of size 45*35 at VFS Delhi.
- Bluedart reference number is the same as your visa application number . You can use it to track one day after you receive your courier dispatch email.
Overall experience at VFS Japan, Delhi(shivaji stadium) was good.
We arrived at 9 am via metro and there was already a good queue (agents more than people applying individually). There are separate queues/tokens/counters for both.
Payment is through cash or UPI. It's 1850 (visa 500+ VFS charges 800+ courier 550). There are no lounge services or those hassles like Schengen offices- hence they won't bother you so much.
Everything was done by 10 am.
The processing is faster than I expected considering what I was reading in the recent posts, probably as the load on embassy is reducing as sakura season is ending and also I guess because of the additional docs submitted pre emptively.
Thankyou for reading this far.