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vdaDocs reads what each government actually publishes for your exact route, from India to 196 destinations, and turns it into the documents you need, what each one has to prove, and how much of it you have already got. Every requirement names the official page it came from, so you can check us.
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- 196
- 3,716
- 27,108
Most refusals are not a judgement about you
- 22.04%
- adjusted refusal rate on US B visas for Indian applicants, FY2025
- 181,111
- applications from India refused for a Schengen visa in 2025
- 42.8%
- of Canadian temporary-resident applications were not approved in 2024
- 20.7%
- of UK visitor visa applications were refused in the year to March 2026
Up from 16.32% the year before. The State Department’s own measure, on its own table.
US Department of State, adjusted refusal rate by nationality (FY2025)A 15.8% refusal rate against 14.6% worldwide; 1,768,605 refusals in all. Indian applicants are refused more often than the global average.
European Commission Schengen visa statistics, 202540.4% in 2025. From India, 37.6% and 36.4%. IRCC’s finalized counts include withdrawn and returned applications, so this is an upper bound.
IRCC open data, temporary residence finalized applications585,536 refusals. The rate is our calculation from the Home Office’s published counts, which are counts rather than a rate. The trend runs 12.3% in 2019 to 20.8% in 2025; Indian nationals sit below the average, at 18.1%.
Home Office immigration statistics, year ending March 2026What a requirement looks like
Every document says what it has to prove, and where that came from
This is one filing on a real route, straight out of the catalogue. Tick what you already have and watch the readiness change: the thing a checklist PDF cannot do.
Start this planDS-160 · Online nonimmigrant visa application
Where you can file
From India to 196 destinations
What we hold for each: the route types that destination files, the forms each of those takes, and the documents they ask you for.
| Destination | Route types | Forms | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 32 | 87 | 435 |
| France | 28 | 33 | 170 |
| Germany | 33 | 60 | 445 |
| Spain | 25 | 44 | 361 |
| United Kingdom | 28 | 37 | 317 |
| United States | 41 | 65 | 455 |
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What the rest of this market charges you for
No service fee, no upsell, and no version of this where we quietly become the thing you are paying. The government’s fee is the government’s; we do not add to it, because we do not take one.
A Germany short-stay application
A $100 service fee on top of the $105 government fee, plus $26 for the appointment.
Atlys’s own Germany pageAn Australian e-Visitor
Free from the Australian government. Sold through an airline widget at £17.
Travel Gossip, June 2026SMS updates on your own application
Rs 236 at the visa centre. Rs 2,360 if you want the form filled in.
BLS Spain India, additional services
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What changed where people are applying
On your phone
The same checklist, counted against your appointment date
Readiness is weighted across every document on the plan and tracked separately from whether you can file yet. The news desk rides along, ranked for the route on your plan.
Neither listing exists yet; these go to the waitlist, and we write once, on the day the app is downloadable.
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Two questions (where, and why) and the list is on screen. Nothing is uploaded and no application is started.