{"id":1305,"date":"2019-12-20T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www99.tlscontact.com\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2023-12-12T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T15:39:09","slug":"new-websites-for-schengen-visa-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tlscontact.com\/en\/news\/new-websites-for-schengen-visa-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"New websites for Schengen visa applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>We&nbsp;recently completed&nbsp;the&nbsp;rollout&nbsp;of new websites for&nbsp;all our Schengen&nbsp;clients, with a new, more user-friendly interface for&nbsp;visa applicants, to guide them more easily through the visa application&nbsp;process.<br><br>Demonstrating&nbsp;our&nbsp;commitment to client and applicant satisfaction, this project&nbsp;will be followed&nbsp;by further improvements to our&nbsp;websites&nbsp;in the coming months.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A new, more intuitive browsing experience&nbsp;for visa applicants<\/strong>&nbsp; <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past three months,&nbsp;TLScontact\u2019s&nbsp;web,&nbsp;IT&nbsp;and project management&nbsp;teams have been hard at work&nbsp;bringing online new websites for all&nbsp;our&nbsp;Schengen clients.&nbsp;The objective of this ambitious project was to&nbsp;create a more user-friendly browsing experience for&nbsp;visa applicants, to&nbsp;guide&nbsp;them through the visa application process.&nbsp;With this in mind, the teams developed a simpler user interface for applicants, redesigning&nbsp;the&nbsp;Schengen&nbsp;websites to ensure that users could access the information they need&nbsp;more&nbsp;quickly and easily.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new websites take applicants&nbsp;step-by-step&nbsp;through their visa application and provide simple, relevant information at key points in their&nbsp;online journey.&nbsp;Applicants can find information&nbsp;on the application process&nbsp;itself,&nbsp;useful documents and links,&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;a presentation of&nbsp;the added value services that&nbsp;TLScontact&nbsp;offers to enhance their&nbsp;visa experience. The&nbsp;websites are compatible with a wide range of web browsers and portable devices and&nbsp;have been&nbsp;optimised&nbsp;to make them accessible to people with visual&nbsp;and other physical&nbsp;impairments, in line with international web accessibility standards.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total,&nbsp;<strong>150 locations<\/strong>, <strong>330&nbsp;websites<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>18&nbsp;different&nbsp;languages<\/strong>&nbsp;have been launched&nbsp;since the beginning of September.&nbsp;These cover&nbsp;visa applications to&nbsp;the following countries:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/be.tlscontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Belgium<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fr.tlscontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/de.tlscontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Germany<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hu.tlscontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hungary<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/it.tlscontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Italy<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nl.tlscontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Netherlands<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pt.tlscontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portugal<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ch.tlscontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Switzerland<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/il.tlscontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cy.tlscontact.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cyprus<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;line with&nbsp;our&nbsp;commitment to continuous improvement in customer service, this project&nbsp;follows on from the launch of new websites for UK visa applicants&nbsp;in over one hundred locations&nbsp;earlier this year.&nbsp;New functionalities&nbsp;will be added&nbsp;to our Schengen websites in the&nbsp;coming months,&nbsp;as&nbsp;we&nbsp;pursue our&nbsp;efforts to&nbsp;optimise&nbsp;the online journey for&nbsp;visa applicants&nbsp;and improve customer experience.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&nbsp;recently completed&nbsp;the&nbsp;rollout&nbsp;of new websites for&nbsp;all our Schengen&nbsp;clients, with a new, more user-friendly interface for&nbsp;visa applicants, to guide them more easily through the visa application&nbsp;process. 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