French Embassy Launches VFS Global Visa Services

By Edwin G. Wandah
The French Embassy accredited near Monrovia, yesterday opened a VFS Global expands visa services network, which is a Mobile Biometric Centre in new country of operation, including Liberia for the first time.
Speaking at the opening of the passport session, French Ambassador, Terence Wills admonished Liberians and others nationals living in the country not to panic as the process now leading to obtaining passport will be smooth.
He also called on Liberians desiring of traveling to France to take advantage of studying the French language at least to have a free flow of interactions with people they could meet in France during their stay there.
“It is good to go to France and catch some French words, we will improve the Alliance De Francaise at least to help provide some mini education to those who may want to go to France for a short term visit or even long visits so that they have a smooth corridor bias of hindrance,” he stated.
Ambassador Wills further extended invitation first to those attending the program, including journalists and other guests to attend an Extraordinary French Summit in Bordeaux, France in the early part of June next year.
The process which puts Liberia at 148th amongst countries operation for VFS Global is part of the initiative to expand the operational presence in Africa on behalf of the Embassy of France, through a Mobile Biometric Centre.
With this launch, VFS Global will now officially commence its visa services operations in Monrovia, a Mobile Biometric Centre which will avail applicants applying from 30 September 2019.
The new process will have applications collected twice a month at Royal Grand Hotel, 15th Street Tubman Boulevard, Sinkor Monrovia, beginning the early morning hours to 5 pm, at the new France Mobile Biometric Centre at the Royal Grand Hotel in Monrovia.
On the new process, Mr. Jiten Vyas, Regional Group COO, VFS Global said, “We are privileged to extend our association with the Embassy of France by extending our services to a new country of operation-Liberia.
The launch stands as a testament to the confidence bestowed in our service capabilities by the Embassy of France considering our longstanding relationship since 2004 which has gone from strength-to-strength” he said.
“By extending our world class service standards to applicants who seek a visa to visit this popular destination, I am confident that this new Mobile Biometric Centre would effectively cater to the growing demand from Liberia,” he averred.
VFS Global which is the world’s largest outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments and diplomatic missions worldwide, with a Swiss parentage, is a portfolio company of EQT, a leading global private equity firm headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. With 3325 Application Centre.
The global company has been a trusted partner of the Embassy of France for visa processing services since 2004, which prior to this launch, the company serviced visa processing requirements on behalf of the Client Government across 22 countries through an extensive network of 71 Visa Application Centres, operating in 147 countries across five continents and over 211 million applications processed as on 31 August 2019l; VFS Global is the trusted partner of 62 client governments.