Awards & Recognition

Over the years, VFS Global has continuously reinvented and upgraded its processes to delight its clients. Its efforts have not been in vain. Today, with a host of awards to its credit, VFS Global is admittedly one of the most celebrated providers of outsourcing and technology services to governments.

• TAAI Appreciation Award for Leadership in Innovation in the Visa Outsourcing Industry: Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) Annual Awards 2012
  
  VFS Global won the prestigious TAAI Appreciation Award for Leadership in Innovation in the Visa Outsourcing Industry in recognition of the company’s leadership position in the visa and consular services outsourcing market and its strong focus on developing innovative solutions to enhance its service offering for the benefit of its client governments and their visa applicants.


• Capgemini Leadership Award for Innovation: NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2012
  
  VFS Global won the coveted “Capgemini Leadership Award for Innovation” at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2012, in recognition of effective usage of technology for providing services to the client governments.
• Three Global Awards for Excellence in Quality Management and Leadership: World Quality Congress & Awards 2012
  
  VFS Global has successfully won three Global Awards for Excellence in Quality Management and Leadership – Quality Excellence Award for Best eBusiness, Supply Chain Innovation Award and Quality Leadership Award at the World Quality Congress & Awards 2012.
• Bloomberg - UTV Dream Employer of the Year 2012: World HRD Congress 2012
  
  VFS Global was awarded the “Bloomberg - UTV Dream Employer of the Year 2012” under the BPO / ITeS services category for best people practices, wide global reach, and excellent business model at the World HRD Congress 2012.
• QCI-DL Shah National Award on Economics for Quality 2012: Quality Council of India
  
  VFS Global received prestigious “QCI-DL Shah National Awards on Economics for Quality 2012”; for efforts on reducing overrides in biometrics for United Kingdom Border Agency Visa Application Centres (VACs), and for effectively using technology for maintaining high standards and security of biometric scans.
• IQPC Best Process Improvement Project Award: International Quality and Productivity Centre (IQPC)
  
  VFS Global’s UK VAC in Kolkata, India was awarded “Best Process Improvement Project” from International Quality and Productivity Centre (IQPC) in London in 2012; the project “Turn-Around-Time Reduction” won the award in recognition of the business impact and scope of improvement exhibited by this project to serve visa applicants
• Three CIO Awards: CIO100 Symposium and Awards 2012
  
  VFS Global has won the three most coveted awards for 2012 — CIO 100 Award, Networking Pioneer Special Award and CIO Hall of Fame Award at the CIO100 Symposium and Awards 2012.
• Top 100 CISO Award: Top 100 CISO Awards 2012
  
  Top 100 CISO Award was presented at the Top 100 CISO Awards 2012 to recognise VFS Global and its Inform Security team for using information security technology in innovative ways to secure its business and mission critical information in the most effective manner and deliver business value, by creating competitive advantage, optimising business processes, enabling growth and improving relationships with customers.
• Maximising Business Impact Through IT: EDGE Award
  
  

  VFS Global has earned admiration and the Edge award for its ‘Innovations in Disaster Recovery Systems’ in 2009 and for ‘Maximising Business Impact Through IT’ in 2011 and 2012.

• Best Information Security Initiative in India’ in 2008 and for Leadership in IT Security in 2010: Security Strategist Award
  
  VFS Global won the Security Strategist Award under the travel and hospitality category for the ‘Best Information Security Initiative in India’ in 2008 and for ‘Leadership in IT Security’ in 2010.
• IT Governance and IT Security: ISACA Award
  
  VFS Global was chosen winner for the coveted Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Award conferred for its ‘IT Governance and IT Security’ in 2010.
• Process Improvement in the services and transactions: Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement Summit
  
  Improvement Summit: At the Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement Summit 2009 in Orlando, USA, VFS Global received an award for ‘Process Improvement’ in the ‘services and transactions’ category.
• iSixSigma Best Project: iSixSigma Summit
  
  In 2009, VFS Global was finalist in the ‘Best Project’ in transactions’ category at the iSixSigma Summit held in Miami, USA.
• Best Innovation Projects: Qimpro Convention
  
  In 2009, VFS Global was chosen finalist at the Qimpro Convention in Mumbai, India under the ‘Best Innovation Projects’ category.
• Excellence in Training and Global HR Strategy: Employer Branding Award
  
  

  VFS Global won the prestigious Employer Branding Award in 2009 for its ‘Excellence in Training’ and ‘Global HR Strategy’s.

• Best HR Strategy and Training Excellence: Greentech HR Awards
  
  

  VFS Global also received the prestigious Greentech HR Awards for ‘Best HR Strategy’ and ‘Training Excellence’ in 2010.