BLS makes visas processes easier in the UAE as it eyes growth

BLS makes visas processes easier in the UAE as it eyes growth

Number of requests from both investors and analyst communities has increased, senior official says

Shikhar Aggarwal, Joint Managing Director at BLS International. - Supplied photo

Published: Fri 11 Nov 2022, 5:29 PM

With travel opening up, the need for passports are visas are rising among UAE residents. BLS International, an outsourcing service provider for embassies and governments that operates 5,500 plus visa-processing centres across more than 65 countries, is keeping pace with the demand. In an interview, the company's Joint Managing Director Shikhar Aggarwal said visa processing times have been cut in the UAE with the innovative use of technology. Excerpts from the interview.

Now that travel is back, and with your stock rising 15 per cent or more in India, what are your plans for expansion globally?

China and Russia, two of the key locations for us, are still not as open as we would like them to be. Despite this, we are seeing higher sales from the remaining geographies and achieving pre-Covid levels of revenues. Once travel in these two countries open up fully, our revenues should get a significant boost.

Moreover, contracts for several countries are in the process of re-tendering in the next 6–9 months, which present substantial opportunities to expand our