If you need to travel urgently, miss your pre-booked appointment, or simply cannot book an appointment at your preferred date and time, the Walk-in Without Appointment service, available for select countries, allows you to submit your visa application on a day you choose..
Book an appointment through online calendar.
Make sure your passport is issued within the last 10 years, is valid at least three months beyond the intended departure from the Schengen area, and includes at least two free visa pages.
Bring your passport and add a copy of your passport to the application..
In 2019, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed the Acquisition of Surveillance Technology Ordinance banning the use of Facial Recognition Technology, with limited exceptions, and requiring public posting of current surveillance technologies in possession or use by city departments..
Please Note: All Applications for Passport, OCI & Renunciation Certificate must be sent to the VFS Global Centre at 642 Harrison Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94107..
The facial recognition fight in San Francisco is largely theoretical — the police department does not currently deploy such technology, and it is only in use at the international airport and ports that are under federal jurisdiction and are not impacted by the legislation.
The action, which came in an 8-to-1 vote by the Board of Supervisors, makes San Francisco the first major American city to block a tool that many police forces are turning to in the search for both small-time criminal suspects and perpetrators of mass carnage.
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved a ban on public biometric facial recognition use by police and other city departments by an eight to one vote, with two supervisors who CNN reports supported the ordnance not present for the vote.
