{"id":827,"date":"2019-04-26T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2019\/04\/vf-worldwide-holdings-vfs-nuovo-2\/"},"modified":"2019-04-26T16:47:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:47:40","slug":"vf-worldwide-holdings-vfs-nuovo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2019\/04\/vf-worldwide-holdings-vfs-nuovo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VF Worldwide Holdings &#8211; VFS appointed as the new Visa outsourcer for the travellers to Italy in the jurisdictions of Pretoria and Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Embassy of Italy in Pretoria announces that &#8211; following the outcome of the call for tenders dated September 2018 for the contract of outsourcing the collection of Visa applications for Italy &#8211; the new contract has been awarded to VF Worldwide Holdings (VFS) through its South African branch <strong>VFS Visa Handling Services South Africa<\/strong>. The new service provider will operate in the consular\u00a0jurisdiction of Pretoria (Tshwane municipality)\u00a0and in that of the Consulate-General in Johannesburg (the rest of Gauteng, North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State and Kwa-Zulu Natal provinces of South Africa, plus Botswana).<\/p>\n<p>As from <strong>2nd May 2019<\/strong>, all visa applications for Italy will have to be submitted through one of the following VFS offices, exclusively dedicated to Italy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pretoria<\/strong>: CAPITAL JUNCTION complex, 1226 Francis Baard St., Hatfield &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?ll=-25.745377,28.238733&#038;z=15&#038;t=m&#038;hl=it-IT&#038;gl=IN&#038;mapclient=embed&#038;q=capital+junction,+1226+francis+baard+st,+hatfield,+pretoria,+0028\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"noopener\">map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for the VFS offices in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Consulate General in Johannesburg, please check <a href=\"https:\/\/consjohannesburg.esteri.it\/consolato_johannesburg\/resource\/doc\/2019\/04\/vfs_press_release_english_ita_finale.pdf\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"noopener\">this page <\/a>on their website.<\/p>\n<p>Bookings of the appointments for the submission of the applications will be available from the 16th of April 2019, either on line (www.vfsglobal.com\/Italy\/Southafrica) or through the relevant VFS Call Center +27 (0) 12 425 3048.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy of Italy seizes this occasion to express to Capago International its appreciation for the excellent service provided\u00a0 for the past 8 years, and to welcome VFS as the new service provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Embassy of Italy in Pretoria announces that &#8211; following the outcome of the call for tenders dated September 2018 for the contract of outsourcing the collection of Visa applications for Italy &#8211; the new contract has been awarded to VF Worldwide Holdings (VFS) through its South African branch VFS Visa Handling Services South Africa. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambpretoria.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}