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As a result of a excessive quantity of pending purposes for Schengen visas, Switzerland has put a short lived maintain on purposes from Indian tour teams in accordance with SchengenVisaInfo.

The Swiss embassy in New Delhi acknowledged that they won’t be accepting purposes till October. The choice was made by the embassy as a excessive quantity of purposes nonetheless wanted to be processed. The embassy needs to clear the backlog earlier than reopening purposes.

The pinnacle of markets east at Switzerland Tourism, Simon Bosshart informed SchengenVisaInfo that the issue was on account of workers scarcity. Including that the workers scarcity was additionally affecting Chinese language tour teams.

Switzerland’s Federal Division of International Affairs addressed the scenario, stating that the nation is at the moment processing 94 per cent of the visa purposes that had been made accessible in 2019.

A press release from the division reads, “Whereas Switzerland is already processing 94 per cent of the visa purposes made accessible in 2019, many different Schengen nations at numerous places haven’t but been capable of restore their visa capacities from 2019.”