VFS Global Adelaide: the Indian Consular Application Centre

VFS Global Adelaide at a glance

	Indian Consular Application Centre (ICAC), Adelaide
Run by	VFS Global, for the Government of India
Address	Suite 8.01, Level 8, 111 Gawler Place, Adelaide SA 5000
Opening hours	VFS lists Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5 pm. The High Commission's July 2026 announcement gave service timings of 8:30 am to 4 pm, so go by the time on your appointment
Appointments	Mandatory. No walk-ins. Book online at services.vfsglobal.com
Postal applications	ICAC Adelaide Centre, GPO Box 435, Adelaide SA 5001 (only for services that can be posted)
Indian mission for South Australia	Consulate General of India, Sydney
Helpline	Email, or "Click to talk" from 8 am to 8 pm AEST, through the VFS contact page

This centre opened on 23 July 2026, one of six new VFS centres in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The old centres stopped public operations on 30 June 2026, so ignore any older address you find online.

Which Indian consulate covers South Australia?

The Consulate General of India in Sydney covers New South Wales and South Australia. You still lodge in Adelaide: VFS's jurisdiction table maps South Australian residents to the Sydney mission and to ICAC Adelaide, for both appointments and postal applications.

This matters when you fill in the online government form. Choose the Australia – Sydney jurisdiction. VFS warns that portal registrations are mission-specific and can't be transferred, so an application created under the wrong mission has to be started again.

Is there an Indian consulate in Adelaide?

No. The High Commission of India in Canberra lists Consulates General in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane, and one Honorary Consul, in Hobart. There is no Consulate General or Honorary Consul of India in Adelaide.

South Australia comes under the Consulate General of India in Sydney, which covers New South Wales and South Australia. In Adelaide, the VFS centre takes applications instead, for the services in the next section. The Sydney consulate says emergency visa applications can also be lodged at VFS Adelaide on working days, between 8:30 am and 3 pm.

For anything VFS can't answer, contact the consulate in Sydney:

• Address: Level 1, 265 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000. Office hours are 9 am to 5:30 pm.
• Consular email: [email protected] or [email protected]. The consulate prefers written queries, doesn't give status updates, and only answers emails that include your full name, postal address and phone number.
• Phone: +61 2 7228 4133 for consular services.
• Emergencies: +61 2 7228 4545 during office hours, or +61 420 277 261 on weekends and public holidays (New South Wales and South Australia only). These numbers aren't for consular enquiries. The emergency service covers visas only, for genuine emergencies such as the death or serious illness of a close family member. There is no emergency passport or emergency OCI.

Don't contact the consulate about an e-Visa, as those are processed directly in India. The consulate gives +91 11 2430 0666 and [email protected] for e-Visa queries. The Sydney consulate also runs occasional consular camps in Adelaide, such as one for life certificates on 29 November 2025, so watch the CGI Sydney website for notices.

What you can lodge at VFS Adelaide

Service	How to lodge	Notes
Indian passport: adult renewal, minor renewal, first passport for a child	In person by appointment, or by post or courier	You can apply up to one year before your passport expires
Indian visa (paper visa)	In person only	Biometrics (fingerprints and photo) are taken at the appointment. Australian passport holders can usually apply online for an e-Visa instead, which doesn't involve VFS
OCI: new (fresh) OCI card, and renunciation of OCI	In person only	Biometrics taken at the appointment. Other OCI services, such as updating your passport details, are now done online on the OCI portal, not at VFS
Surrender of Indian passport (after taking another citizenship)	By appointment or by post	Needed before an OCI application if you used to hold an Indian passport
Police Clearance Certificate (PCC)	By appointment or by post
Other consular services	By appointment or by post	Includes attestation of documents, registration of birth, birth and marriage certificates for passport purposes, India driving licence verification, NRI certificates and a parent's affidavit for a child's passport in India

From 1 July 2026, all visa and OCI applications need biometric enrolment, which is why they must be lodged in person.

How the process works

1. Fill in the Government of India form online. For passports, use the Global Passport Seva portal. For OCI, use the OCI portal. Select the Sydney jurisdiction.
2. Prepare your documents using the checklist for your service on the VFS site.
3. Book an appointment and pay the VFS service fee online.
4. Attend the Adelaide centre at your appointment time with your printed form and documents. Government fees are paid at the centre.
5. Track your application on the VFS website.

The centres are cashless. VFS lists EFTPOS (in person), Visa or Mastercard cards issued in Australia, and money or postal orders. Optional services at the centre include photos, photocopying, help with form filling, document return and SMS updates.

What to bring

Each service has its own checklist, and VFS says every listed form and document is mandatory. For an adult passport renewal, the checklist includes:

• your printed online application and your current passport
• the documents on the VFS passport checklist and a Personal Particulars Form
• Form I if you're applying more than a month after your old passport expired, Form J if your appearance has changed, and Form V if your passport was lost or damaged
• photos 35 mm × 45 mm, in colour, on a plain white background, with head height 29–34 mm and no editing

For OCI, visas, PCC and surrender, open the matching section on the VFS India–Australia site and follow its checklist. Our e-Visa and OCI guide explains which of the two suits you.

Fees

You pay two separate charges: a VFS service fee, paid online when you book, and the Government of India fee, paid at the centre. VFS notes that OCI fees can change monthly with the exchange rate. Use the fee calculator on the relevant VFS service page for current amounts.

How long an Indian passport renewal takes

Application	VFS average processing time
Renewal or reissue where your previous passport was issued in Australia by the same Indian mission	About 4 weeks
Renewal or reissue where your previous passport wasn't issued in Australia, or was issued by a different mission	About 8 weeks
Lost or damaged passport	About 8 weeks, and up to 4 months if extra checks are needed

Processing starts only once a complete application has been accepted. Postal applications also need time in the mail both ways.

Booking travel around a passport renewal

VFS says plainly: don't make travel arrangements until you have your passport back. VFS and the Government of India won't cover costs from trips booked before a passport is issued. Here is how we suggest planning:

• Don't buy non-refundable fares yet. We can quote and hold options while your passport is being processed, and talk you through fares with flexible change conditions.
• Match the new passport. Your ticket name must match your passport exactly. If your name or spelling changes on the new one, tell us before we ticket.
• Update your Australian visa. If you hold an Australian visa, tell Home Affairs about the new passport. Through ImmiAccount it's linked to your visa within 3 business days, or 14 days by web form (Home Affairs).

When your passport is back, see our Adelaide to Delhi and Adelaide to Amritsar pages, or our parents page if you're bringing family over.

Visas for other countries

The Adelaide ICAC handles Government of India services only. For another country's visa, start from that country's official visa website, which tells you where and how to lodge.

Talk to a real person about flights

Fares and schedules change every day, so we don't publish prices on this page. For live fares, call or WhatsApp the Travel Care team on 0421 882 733, or ask for a quote. We're a family-run agency at 222 Henley Beach Road, Torrensville, and we speak English, Hindi and Punjabi.

Last checked: 12 November 2026 by the Travel Care team.