BLS InternationalReviews of blsspainvisa.com

the website keep crashing results in losing your slot after going through different security measures the moment you upload your picture which in my case it was less than 100kB the website crashing. try to call them they have one answer to every problem ( try in the next days ) or wait until next week we will post new slots now its been three months like this I purchased land and paid a deposit and I'm losing time to go complete the deal.i won't recommend it at all

BLS has every incentive to reject applications because they charge for repeat appointments. I am kept waiting despite an appointment time and then told to leave because I had an previous version of an application form. Meanwhile I see BLS people helping other customers (taking over 40 mins) with printing, photocopying, purchasing insurance, taking photos. I have all my other documents and they are not willing to even give me a little time to quickly fill my application and resubmit it!

My wife needs a spainish visa as she has a Thai passport . It’s become clear its impossible to get an appointment & been blocked from there website due to multiple attemps for London office . Lost all the money bar 10 % . £2100 out of pocket but they don’t care : So angry with myself for booking it but didn’t know 😡

I would have gave 0 or 0.5 point if I can. The online booking system is not user friendly at all. It's not only hard to get any appointment slot, but once I can get a slot, it's so difficult to upload the id photo or make the payment through. When it somehow failed, I have to start from the beginning to make another appointment after at least 30 mins. As a popular Schengen country, the online system design is a total disaster for individual applicant.

Securing a visa appointment with BLS is the biggest government approved scam I have experienced. We have been trying to book a slot from March for a trip in July with no success. I have tried at all hours of the day including midnight, mid month as advised and randomly throughout the day almost every day. They advise on their website to not deal with intermediaries, but make the process so cumbersome you have no choice but to deal with them. Again, I wonder how these visa agencies are able to sell appointments that are accepted by BLS if they are not approved agents. My understanding is, appointments booked are only for the named applicants and cannot be reassigned. How then is it possible that these agents (intermediaries) are able to secure appointments for other applicants. Who approves the appointment for them, surely the embassies are aware of it and most likely receive commission from the exorbitant fees paid by applicants. The government's aim of outsourcing the visa application to BLS is to enable them process the visa faster while the BLS collect the information on their behalf, sadly it seems this is more a punishment and frustrating exercise for individuals and families that don't come from visa exempt countries. BLS are obviously not able to cope with the workload, they should either take on more staff or return visa processing back to the embassies rather than putting applicants through such emotionally, financially draining and time consuming exercise. I hope someone reads this and reviews the process, from what I see on Trustpilot they don't seem to care about the reviews either.

no appointments available at any time but the appointments are available via third party for huge amount of extra fees. and if anyone like door service than the service will cost £600. sounds like a corruption and black mailing

In the year of 2024, we still have such a bad online service. I tried to book a slot online, never manage to get any slot.

I am trying to book an appointment in this website for 3 years. Every Spring since covid times I am trying to get an appointment for Spain VISA, I try to a few month and have to go to other countries like Germany, Greece or Portugal for my holidays. this year it happens again. for last 2 months I start my day by checking time slots. There was one day I managed to get a slot, but I made a mistake in my application, I tried to go back to previous page to fix it. Instead the website cancelled my application and blocked me for an hour. When I tried to get a slot again, there was no any free slots anymore. Yes, you added capcha and made the worst way to enter the password, but this made experience worse for regular users, not for bots. I am so disappointment you actually do not care about your regular customers making their experience worse. There are plenty of services in the UK which resells time slots, but I refuse to support them. For a god sake, make your service available for regular people. Make appointment not transferrable and appointment fee not refundable. Update 28th of May 2024: 1. They removed mouse-based password input. This is good. 2. I tried to get time slot for another month checking every day two times for time slot. There was no any time slots. 3. Today(28th of May) they released time slots for June and July. I tried to get one slot but their server crashed and I was told to wait for another attempt 30 minutes. I happened 3 times. And eventually they just banned me showing "Unusual request has been identified. We are suspecting a non-human intervention." So, I cannot recreate new account as I used my phone/passport data for this one. and I cannot use this one even though I tried to get time slot for 3 months now, starting from March 2024 Current state: My flight is in 1 month with all my vacation booked as I need it to get a VISA. I spend multiple hours to get a time slot over 3 months. My account is blocked even though I have not used any bot or automation scripts. And now I have no idea what to do. It seems I have to pay extra for walk in service (not sure if it is even available)