Someone on a tight passport-submission deadline asked whether a friend or relative can drop their passport at the VFS office in Delhi for visa stamping, or whether the applicant must go personally. Two workable answers came back:
- Two-way courier direct to the processing centre. The first suggestion: skip the personal-drop question entirely and use a two-way courier service to send the passport directly for stamping and get it returned. Caveat from the same exchange: courier pickups can be delayed depending on the applicant's location — the poster's friend had booked a pickup that hadn't turned up — so build in buffer days before the deadline.
- A friend can submit it with written authorization. The concrete answer to the actual question: yes, a third party can drop the passport, using the authorization form on which the applicant fills the first part and provides the friend's details. Without that completed consent form, VFS won't accept a third-party submission.
- On a deadline, run both options in parallel — the thread's situation (booked courier not arriving, PPR clock ticking) is exactly when having the authorization form signed and a friend on standby saves the file.
(Procedures are VFS-specific and change; check the current VFS Global Canada page for the authorization form and courier options before relying on either route.)