Miscellaneous Services

MISCELLANEOUS CONSULAR SERVICES

VFS Global is the service provider for Miscellaneous Consular services for the Consulate General of India Chicago from 1st August 2025.

All the applicants under the Consular Jurisdiction of the Consulate General of India (those living in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin) seeking Miscellaneous Consular services may visit the link : https://services.vfsglobal.com/usa/en/ind for details.

Apart from the applicable Government of India fees, the applicants will also be required to pay US$ 19.00 as service charge to VFS Global and US$ 2 as contribution to Indian Community Welfare Fund (ICWF).

The details of the VFS Global Application Centre in the consular jurisdiction of Consulate General of India, Chicago are as under:

1. ICAC Chicago Centre: Suite 2075, 180 North Stetson Ave, 20th Floor, Chicago, IL 60601

2. Suite 100, 333, West Fort St. Detroit, Michigan 48226

It may be noted that Applications will be accepted by post and in-person.

VFS Helpline Number

Miscellaneous Consular Services - + 1800 320 9625

Operational Days: Monday to Saturday, 9:00 to 03:30 hours EST

Consulate would continue to offer services like death certificates for Indian nationals and life certificates for pensioners directly to the applicants as per extant practice at the following link https://indianconsularservices.mea.gov.in/consularServices However, in case the applicants wish to avail these services from VFS Global, they can avail the same as any other miscellaneous consular service from VFS Global on payment of the applicable service fee.

Please note No Commercial Documents are attested by the Consulates. The same should be apostilled from US Government Authorities for presenting in India.

The Consulate does not attest any document issued by authorities in India. If any document issued by authorities in India such as birth and death certificates, affidavits, educational documents/diplomas, marriage certificate, Driving License etc. are required to be presented to authorities in USA, those should be apostilled in India. For details, please check the website “Legalization of Documents” at https://www.mea.gov.in/apostille-menu.htm .

It is mandatory for the documents issued by the US Government authorities to be apostilled by the relevant authorities in the USA before presenting the document for attestation at the Consulate.

Following Miscellaneous Consular services will be rendered through VFS Global:-

1. LIFE CERTIFICATE

2. MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE

3. REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES ALREADY SOLEMNIZED IN USA

4. POWER OF ATTORNEY / AFFIDAVITS

5. REGISTRATION OF BIRTH

6. ATTESTATION OF WILL

7. ATTESTATION OF DOCUMENTS/ INDIAN DRIVING LICENSE AUTHENTICATION

8. BIRTH CERTIFICATE

9. AFFIDAVIT FOR CHILD’S PASSPORT TO BE ISSUED IN INDIA

10. NRI CERTIFICATE

11. POLICE CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE NON-INDIAN NATIONALS (PCC)