Premium Lounge Service during Biometrics - scam by VFS India

[pat40]

I got surprised by seeing VFS is not behind in the race of Scamming people in India. Most of the applicant who went to vfs in india for biometrics must be offered VFS's Premium Lounge Service with the extra cost. They just trying to upsell their product by saying 1.biometrics will be updated very fast ( which is automatically updated with in 2 hours with out any extra cost) and 2. Passport pick up will be prioritize for you which is also a sweet lie.

IRCC also posted this on their twitterthat This service is not make your application faster not slow. But most of applicant fall in this sweet lie and pay extra.

So I request you to please be aware of this scam and don't fall for this.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1372837271817293827

 

[Susmit M]

My sister had similar experience at VFS Kolkata. They scammed her Rs 3050 as Premium Lounge fee when she went for her biometric. She was given the same explanation. Premium lounge fees include 2-way courier fees for passport despatch. But when issuance of Visa is not guaranteed why they should charge this. This is a pure scam by VFS. I have tweeted to CHC, New Delhi and Canadian Foreign Minister. The twitter message from IRCC came out after that. But what about the money already scammed by VFS. Multiple locations in India times multiple candidates times multiple days = big money. Not sure what they are doing in other countries. IRCC should initiate refund of the Premium Lounge fees claimed by scam. VFS should also post a link on the website acknowledging the scam they did and lay out a process for claiming refund.