Bulgaria has initiated the issuance of Schengen visas in various countries. The Bulgarian consulates will not directly process these visa applications; instead, the responsibility has been outsourced to VFS Global, a company specializing in visa services. Currently, there are 60 visa processing centers managed by VFS Global in 60 different locations across nine countries. The locations are as follows:
- China: Beijing, Shanghai, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Jinan, Kunming, Nanjing, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Wuhan, and Xi’an.
- India: New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Calcutta, Mumbai, and Pune.
- Indonesia: Jakarta and Bali.
- Kazakhstan: Nur-Sultan and Almaty.
- Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur.
- Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novorossiysk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saratov, Ufa, Vladivostok, and Voronezh.
- Singapore: Singapore.
- Türkiye: Ankara, Istanbul, Antalya, Bursa, Diyarbakir, Edirne, Gaziantep, and Izmir.
- United Kingdom: London, Edinburgh, and Manchester.
These centers have been established to streamline the visa application process for Bulgarian Schengen visas in these respective countries.