BLS International Services Limited was erstwhile established as 'Welken Traders Limited' in November, 1983 as a specialist provider for Outsourcing of Visa, Passport and Attestation Services to the Client Governments across the world. The Company name was changed to BLS International Services Limited from Welken Traders Limited in March, 2012.
The Company is primarily engaged in business of providing outsourcing and administrative task of Visa, Passport and Consular services to various Diplomatic Missions across the world. It provides services related to attestation and apostille on behalf of Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi (India). Further the allied services like services to the bank account holders on behalf of our customer, Seva Sindhu services by setting up grama one citizen service centres and other outsourcing services
In 2010, the Company started operations for Indian Embassy in Spain, Kuwait, Sudan and Russia. In 2011, it started VACs for Indian Embassy in UAE along with other Indian Mission's VACs in South Asian countries. In 2012, commenced operations for Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia and Singapore. In 2013-14, the Company began foreign missions abroad (4 missions for an EU country), added 7 Indian missions abroad including US and Canada.
In 2016-17, the Company, apart from consular business, gained expertise in Citizen Services with Punjab e-governance project providing a first mover advantage in this domain. This led to first international Citizen Services contract win from the Embassy of Afghanistan. It started providing Visa Consultancy Services to various consulates in 2017. It started attestation and apostille on behalf of Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi (India). The Company started Consular Services (ROSC) in Abuja (Nigeria) and Beirut (Lebanon) Citizen Services Contract from the Embassy of Afghanistan. It added a new contract for UAE Consular Section Services for Dakar, in Senegal in 2017.
In August 2018, Company acquired a majority stake in the business correspondent vertical of Starfin India Private Limited through its subsidiary, BLS E-Services Private Limited. It also 51 % of the Share capital in Reired BLS International Private Limited dated 30.11.2018. The Company entered into a contract with Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy, and commenced operations for the processing of Italian visa applications in Singapore on 2nd July 2018. It began operations for French Embassy in Jordan.
The Company started the Vietnam Visa application centre in Turkey, Brazil Visa application centre in Lebanon, and Morocco Visa application centre in India in 2019-20. It started accepting visa applications from October 2019 to provide efficient visa application services to people traveling to Brazil from Lebanon for business, work or leisure. It entered into an exclusive partnership with the Embassy of Libya to provide visa services Center from November, 2019. It started new Spain Visa Application Centres in Belarus and Miami. It relocated Spain Visa Application Centres to larger sites in Ankara & Tashkent to service more applicants and provide more enhanced services.
In June 2022, Company acquired Zero Mass Private Ltd, India's largest business correspondent. The all-cash acquisition - funded through accruals - graduated BLS into India's largest business correspondent network. The acquisition was in line with BLS' strategy to strengthen its position in the business correspondent segment. The Company was authorized by the Royal Thai embassy to provide visa services in Kenya in 2023.
The Company acquired the Turkey-based visa processing company, iData, in July, 2024.