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by Jaune08 » Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:04 pm
Hey Chris. About the visa processing for Latin American applications, I was told by the VFS chief in Mexico how this works.
For Latin American countries, once the visa has been approved in Sheffield, Home Office sends a subsequent email to Colombia (Bogotá works as the hub to issue and print the vignettes). The authorities in Colombia might notify you that either your visa was approved or is being issued (this varies depending on the country). Once they have your vignette/sticker, Colombian authorities will send your vignette to your country (in Mexico is to the VFS centre but in Peru I think it’s the British embassy. Again, this varies depending on the country).
Once the VFS centre/embassy has your vignette, they will stick it on your passport and then they will either call you to collect it or send it to your home (if you’ve paid for this service).
If you selected the option “keep my passport during the application process”, then the VFS centre or embassy will call you to bring your passport so they can stick on the vignette. If they already have your passport, you just have to wait until the vignette arrives from Colombia.
Again, this information was provided by the VFS centre chief in Mexico. I ask him (when I went to apply for my visa) as I couldn’t find this info anywhere, the process varies from other countries (i.e., Asian countries) and I needed to know how this works.
Hope this helps!
