VFS Global Further Strengthens Partnership With the Government of Italy

Building on a long-standing relationship of nearly 14 years, the Government of Italy has recently re-awarded visa processing services contracts to VFS Global in Cameroon, Ghana and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for another four years.

Building on a long-standing relationship of nearly 14 years, the Government of Italy has recently re-awarded visa processing services contracts to VFS Global in Cameroon, Ghana and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for another four years.

    

Additionally, VFS Global was recently awarded a 3-year contract to provide proficiently managed Italy visa services to the residents of Libya after participating in an official tender published by the Embassy of Italy in Libya.

As further reinforcement to VFS Global's position as a reliable and trusted market leader in the consular services domain, the Embassies of Italy in Ghana and Egypt have also awarded contracts for Legalisation Services to VFS Global for 4 and 3-year periods respectively.

These contract wins, in addition to the recent contract signing with the Federal Foreign Office of Germany for visa processing services in 10 countries in the Middle East and Africa and the three-year global visa processing services contract signing with the Norwegian Government, comes as a further enhancement to VFS Global's operating presence in the Middle East and Africa regions. In September 2017, VFS Global also signed a 4-year visa processing services contract with Embassy of Italy in Kuwait.

Chris Dix, Head - Business Development, VFS Global, remarked,"We are extremely excited and privileged to take our partnership with the client Government of Italyto the next level. There-awarded visa services contractsin three locations, the new visa services contract win in Libyaand the new Legalisation Services contracts in Ghana and Egyptstands testament to the trust bestowed onto us by our esteemed client government. As always, we remain committed to the continued delivery ofworld-class and seamless services to our applicants in the visa and consular services domain on behalf ofthe Government of Itay."

VFS Global has been serving the Government of Italy since 2004 and currently offers Italy visa services in 30 countries across the world through a network of 68 Visa Application Centres. VFS Global currently provides Legalisation Services on behalf of the Government of Italy in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Ghana and Egypt.

About VFS Global 

VFS Global is the world's largest outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments and diplomatic missions worldwide. With 2469 Application Centres, operations in 129countries across five continents and over 161 million applications processed as on 31 December 2017, VFS Global is the trusted partner of 58 client governments. VFS Global's worldwide operations are certified ISO 9001:2008 for Quality Management System, ISO 27001:2013 for Information Security Management System and ISO 14001:2004 for Environmental Management System. For more information, please visit http://www.vfsglobal.com

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