{"id":1501,"date":"2026-02-05T16:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:01:52","slug":"notice-visa-it-system-shutdown-for-the-processing-and-issuance-of-entry-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dal_consolato\/2026\/02\/notice-visa-it-system-shutdown-for-the-processing-and-issuance-of-entry-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTICE \u2013 Visa IT System Shutdown for the Processing and Issuance of Entry Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOTICE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Visa IT System Shutdown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>for the Processing and Issuance of Entry Visas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please be advised that from\u00a0<strong>10:00 PM<\/strong>\u00a0(Karachi time) on\u00a0<strong>February 12, 2026,<\/strong>\u00a0until\u00a0<strong>4:00 AM<\/strong>\u00a0(Karachi time) on\u00a0<strong>February 19, 2026,<\/strong>\u00a0the VIS operating system will be temporarily shut down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a planned and urgent technical intervention that will temporarily suspend the reception and processing of visa applications, as well as the issuance of entry visas. This suspension will affect both the visa office at the Embassy of Italy in Islamabad and the centers managed by the outsourcer BLS International (<a href=\"https:\/\/theitalyvisa.com\/\">https:\/\/theitalyvisa.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please be advised that, to minimize inconvenience to users, previously scheduled appointments will be rescheduled for the days immediately preceding or following the period affected by the shutdown, taking into account priority needs and urgent cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOTICE Visa IT System Shutdown for the Processing and Issuance of Entry Visas Please be advised that from\u00a010:00 PM\u00a0(Karachi time) on\u00a0February 12, 2026,\u00a0until\u00a04:00 AM\u00a0(Karachi time) on\u00a0February 19, 2026,\u00a0the VIS operating system will be temporarily shut down. This is a planned and urgent technical intervention that will temporarily suspend the reception and processing of visa applications, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conskarachi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}