{"id":6254,"date":"2026-02-04T22:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:34:34","slug":"temporary-operational-downtime-of-the-vis-it-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2026\/02\/temporary-operational-downtime-of-the-vis-it-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary operational downtime of the VIS IT system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"118\"><strong data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"118\">NOTICE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"179\">**Temporary operational downtime of the VIS IT system<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"179\">for the processing and issuance of entry visas**<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"449\">Please be informed that the <strong data-start=\"258\" data-end=\"275\">VIS IT system<\/strong> will be subject to a <strong data-start=\"297\" data-end=\"331\">temporary operational downtime<\/strong> from<br data-start=\"336\" data-end=\"339\" \/><strong data-start=\"339\" data-end=\"389\">6:00 p.m. (Rome time, CET) on 12 February 2026<\/strong><br data-start=\"389\" data-end=\"392\" \/>to<br data-start=\"394\" data-end=\"397\" \/><strong data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"448\">12:00 a.m. (Rome time, CET) on 18 February 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"451\" data-end=\"642\">This scheduled and urgent technical intervention will result in the <strong data-start=\"519\" data-end=\"597\">temporary suspension of the submission and processing of visa applications<\/strong>, as well as the <strong data-start=\"614\" data-end=\"641\">issuance of entry visas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"644\" data-end=\"689\">The suspension will affect the operations of:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"836\">\n<li data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"755\">\n<p data-start=\"692\" data-end=\"755\">the <strong data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"748\">Visa Office of the Embassy of Italy in New Delhi<\/strong>, and<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"756\" data-end=\"836\">\n<p data-start=\"758\" data-end=\"836\">the <strong data-start=\"762\" data-end=\"835\">visa application centres managed by the external service provider VFS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"1087\">To minimize inconvenience to users, <strong data-start=\"874\" data-end=\"908\">appointments already scheduled<\/strong> during the affected period will be <strong data-start=\"944\" data-end=\"999\">rescheduled to the days immediately before or after<\/strong> the downtime, with due consideration given to <strong data-start=\"1046\" data-end=\"1086\">priority cases and urgent situations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1125\">We thank you for your understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOTICE **Temporary operational downtime of the VIS IT system for the processing and issuance of entry visas** Please be informed that the VIS IT system will be subject to a temporary operational downtime from6:00 p.m. (Rome time, CET) on 12 February 2026to12:00 a.m. (Rome time, CET) on 18 February 2026. This scheduled and urgent technical [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6257,"href":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions\/6257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambnewdelhi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}