Terms and Conditions of Service

This website (the “Website”) is edited by TLScontact Enterprises (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (hereunder referred to as “TLScontact”, “we”, “us”, “our”), with company registration number 0105552133390, registered office at 175 Sathorn City Tower, 12/1 F1., South Sathorn Road, Kwaeng Thungmahamek, Khet Sathorn, Bangkok Metropolis, Thailand.

TLScontact Visa Application Centre is a service provided by TLScontact.  

TLScontact is a service provider appointed and authorized by the Embassy of Belgium in Thailand to operate a TLScontact visa application centre both through designated offices (referred to as “Visa Application Centre” or “VAC”) and through the TLScontact website.

These terms and conditions are applicable to any and all services (hereunder referred to as “Service” or “Services”) offered by TLScontact on behalf of the Embassy of Belgium in Thailand or on its own behalf to persons (hereunder referred to as “Applicant”, “Applicants”, “Customer”, or “you”, “your”) who wish to submit a visa application to the Embassy of Belgium through TLScontact and to the eventual provision of information by TLScontact concerning such visa application.

These terms and conditions cover, without limitation and depending on the nature of your visa application:

• the registration by the Applicant on the TLScontact website for the purpose of creation of an account;
• the booking by the Applicant of an appointment for the purpose of submission of the visa application;
• the confirmation by TLScontact of the Applicant’s appointment;
• the attendance by the Applicant at the VAC to the appointment for the purpose of collection of the visa application by TLScontact;
• the collection of the biometric data required where applicable by the Embassy of Belgium;
• the payment of the visa application related fees;
• the submission and transport by TLScontact (or any third party contracted by TLScontact) to the Embassy of Belgium of the visa application including all the supporting documentation;
• the transfer of all such documentation from the Embassy of Belgium to TLScontact for the purpose of returning the travel document and any other supporting documentation if applicable to the Applicant;
• the provision of any optional service by TLScontact in addition to the service of collection of your visa application (hereunder referred to also as “Additional Services”) for the convenient submission of your visa application.

These terms and conditions shall be the contract governing the provision of Services by TLScontact to the Applicant. You hereby accept and confirm that, prior to submitting your visa application, you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by, without limitation or qualification, these terms and conditions.

These terms and conditions may be accessed and viewed on the TLScontact website at any time. All changes, amendments, amplifications or withdrawals to or of these terms and conditions from time to time shall be published on the TLScontact website. These amended terms and conditions, as displayed on the TLScontact website, shall prevail over any previous version of these terms and conditions or over any other conflicting documents.

Save for clear proof to the contrary, the data recorded in the TLScontact information system shall constitute proof of all transactions the Customer has entered into with TLScontact.

These terms and conditions are not applicable to any and all services provided and/or decisions made concerning your visa application by the Embassy of Belgium, including the payment of the visa fees by the Applicant. You hereby acknowledge and agree that TLScontact is an intermediary between you and the Embassy of Belgium as its agent, and that no claims regarding the decisions made about your visa application or regarding a visa fee refund shall be addressed to TLScontact.

In order to procure any Service to be provided by TLScontact, the Applicant is required to complete the following actions via the TLScontact website:

• register on TLScontact website and create an account;
• log in and fill in the online application form where applicable;
• book an appointment to submit the visa application at the Visa Application Centre.

Applicants may have the option, if available, to select Additional Services via the TLScontact website at the stage of booking an appointment, or book such Additional Services via the TLScontact call centre, or request such Additional Services directly whilst visiting the Visa Application Centre.

TLScontact may offer Additional Services related to the visa application process which require an additional fee to be paid at the Visa Application Centre or, if applicable, on the TLScontact website. The Additional Services are optional and do not guarantee that your visa will be granted or that your visa application will be processed in priority to other applications. A list of Additional Services offered by TLScontact is published on TLScontact website. You may find it under the following link: Added Value Services.

TLScontact will only accept a booking and order of the Services if the Applicant has previously confirmed, in such manner as TLScontact may determine, to abide by these terms and conditions whilst registering. Such confirmation constitutes the proof of the contract for provision of Services to You. A booking of Services shall not be deemed final until TLScontact has acknowledged acceptance of the order and has received full payment of the price of the visa application related fees.

TLScontact reserves the right to cancel or refuse any Service order if there is an existing dispute with the Applicant regarding the payment for previous Service orders.

4.1 General conditions for all fees to be paid

Fees stated are only valid on the day that such fees are quoted. For visa applications on a later date, the fees may be subject to a change.

The visa fee collected by TLScontact on behalf of the Embassy of Belgium and the TLScontact service fees are fixed in EUR but payable in the currency of the country where the VAC is situated. The exchange rate between these currencies is decided by the Embassy of Belgium and is subject to periodical variation, therefore the amount in local currency you are requested to pay may differ from the one quoted.

All visa application related fees are firm, inclusive of value-added tax and displayed on TLScontact website and at the VAC.

All costs of returning passports, supporting documents and visas decisions to you are included in the final total price based on information provided by you and the available delivery methods selected by you.

All fees must be received in full under the available payment options as cleared funds for the application to be processed. Except where covered in our refund policy below, fees are non- refundable and non-transferable once the Service is completed or after the application is transferred to the Embassy of Belgium and whether or not a visa is ultimately granted by the Embassy of Belgium or whether or not you decide to withdraw your visa application.

4.2 TLScontact service fee for the submission of your visa application (hereunder referred to as “Service Fee”)

The Service Fee for the processing of your visa application is agreed between the Embassy of Belgium and TLScontact. Any change to the Visa Application Service Fee shall be made in accordance with the agreement reached with the Embassy of Belgium and shall be duly displayed on the TLScontact website or at the VAC.

TLScontact shall issue Applicant with a receipt upon payment of the Service Fee.

4.3 Additional Service Fee (hereunder referred to as “Additional Service Fee”)

TLScontact Additional Service Fee are quoted either in the currency of the country where you submit your visa application or in EUR.

TLScontact reserves the right to amend the Additional Service Fees and to charge such amended Additional Service Fees to Applicants after the effective date of such amendment. Applicant shall take into account this fact in case he or she plans to make an order on a future date. TLScontact shall issue Applicant with a receipt upon payment of the Additional Service Fee.

4.4 Visa Fee collected by TLScontact on behalf of the Embassy of Belgium (hereunder referred to as “Visa Fee”).

TLScontact has no control over, and does not accept any liability whatsoever for increases or amendments to visa fees collected by TLScontact on behalf of the Embassy of Belgium. TLScontact accepts no claims for refund of Visa Fee and such claims are not to be addressed to TLScontact.

The Service Fee and the Additional Service Fee (hereinafter together referred to as “TLScontact Fees”) may be payable in full either on the day you book an appointment to submit your visa application or at later stage at the VAC when you arrive for your appointment, through the following methods, each depending on the moment when the TLScontact Fees are paid, as specified on the TLScontact website:

• by credit/debit card and for distant payments (online, phone, etc.) by a secure payment method;
• by bank transfer or by any other means of payment accepted by TLScontact.

TLScontact will issue the Applicant with a receipt for the transaction upon receiving cleared payment of the TLScontact Fees and the Visa Fees.

Applicant is liable for any charges and interest her or she may incur by using the available payment method.

Payment data is encrypted before transfer using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

TLScontact shall not be required to provide any Services if the TLScontact Fees have not been paid in full.

Payments shall not be deemed complete until TLScontact has duly received the all visa application related fees in fully cleared and available funds.

TLScontact undertakes to use its reasonable endeavours to provide the Services to Applicants depending on the appointment date they have chosen.

TLScontact will process all visa applications with reasonable care and skill and in accordance with all procedures prescribed by the Embassy of Belgium.

TLScontact does not guarantee the approval or any action in relation to visa applications filed with the Embassy of Belgium. All decisions on whether or not to grant your visa shall be the sole prerogative of the Kingdom of Belgium; as such any recourse, appeal, or communications regarding the results of your visa application should be made to them.

However, whilst we use reasonable care to check your application form for obvious errors on the face of the form, we do not guarantee that all errors on your form will be detected, and we do not undertake to verify any information you provide. You further acknowledge that TLScontact is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness or sufficiency of your application. It shall be your responsibility to ensure that you comply with all documentary and substantive requirements of the Embassy of Belgium; and ensuring that all information and documentation you provide is accurate, true and up to date.

TLScontact is merely a service provider of the Embassy of Belgium; as such we do not represent nor warrant a timeline within which a decision on your visa application will be made. We shall not be held liable or responsible for any damages or injury that may result from the decision or length of the decision-making process of the Embassy of Belgium. It is your responsibility to ensure that your visa application is filed within a reasonable time before your travel. TLScontact is not your agent and does not act on your behalf.

TLScontact accepts no liability howsoever arising for any delay in the provision of the Services caused by an event or by a third party, which is beyond the control of TLScontact.

Timeframes for any receipt of decisions on your visa application from the Embassy of Belgium are estimates only, based on information and experience with the Embassy of Belgium, which are outside of the influence of TLScontact and cannot be guaranteed. Making use of the urgent appointment service, if applicable, will not guarantee that your visa application will be expedited or processed by the Embassy of Belgium more quickly. Applicants are recommended not to make bookings related to their travel prior to receiving a decision on their visa applications. In case Applicants are required to make such bookings in advance, they should consider a reasonable timeline for the processing of their visa applications prior to making such bookings.

Applicants bear responsibility to carefully read and understand the requirements set out in visa application forms, complete them truthfully and with correct and accurate information, to provide the correct supporting documentation, to ensure that they have a valid passport (not damaged or expired) as well as to check the validity of the visa issued (including with regard to the period, number of entries, purpose etc) on its receipt.

Applicants shall provide valid contact details to TLScontact in order for TLScontact to contact them in case any issue arises with the Applicants' visa application or if additional documentation is required. TLScontact accepts no responsibility for any losses arising from any inability to contact the Applicants resulting from lack of contact details provided, or in case of Applicant’s mobile phone is switched off, disconnected or not equipped with voice mail.

7.1 Cancellation and Refund Eligibility:

In the event that you need to cancel your appointment, we require a minimum of at least seventy-two (72) hours (excluding Saturday, Sunday and public holidays in Thailand as published on our website) prior written notice to your scheduled appointment.

If you provide us with at least seventy-two (72) hours’ notice of your intention to cancel your appointment (excluding Saturday, Sunday and public holidays), you will be eligible for the refund of the Service Fee paid, excluding the non-refundable processing charges or administrative fees.

For Apply Anywhere Service, Additional Service Fee for the Apply Anywhere Service are not refundable and will be used to cover all costs, expenses and services incurred by TLScontact for the performance of such service (e.g. booking flight tickets, car rental fees, etc.) up to the date of receipt by TLScontact of your notification of cancellation.

TLScontact Fees are non-refundable and non-transferable fees under the following circumstances, which include but not limited to:

• notice of cancellation is received by TLScontact less than seventy-two (72) hours (excluding Saturday, Sunday and public holidays) prior to the scheduled appointment;
• the Applicant fails to attend the appointment or arrives 15 or more minutes late for the appointment; notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in case the applicant fails to attend its appointment or arrives 15 or more minutes later for the appointment, the Applicant will be entitled to request a refund of the additional service fee paid for any Additional Service purchased online, to the exception of the Additional Services Apply Anywhere, Prime Time Weekend and Prime Time Appointment, which remain non-refundable;
• TLScontact Service is completed, which includes that the application cannot be accepted by TLScontact on the appointment date due to incompleteness and/or incorrectness; or
• the application is transferred to the Embassy of Belgium.

Upon receipt of the cancellation notice within the above-mentioned period, TLScontact shall be given the right to rely on the representation of cancellation and proceed with its business assuming the appointment has been cancelled.

TLScontact may consider force majeure or other unforeseen circumstances beyond its control in determining refund eligibility. In such cases, TLScontact shall have absolute discretion, within the limits of applicable laws, whether to grant a refund. Furthermore, TLScontact’s previous grant of refunds shall not be considered as a precedent for the grant of refunds in similar cases.

TLScontact shall not refund any payments of TLScontact Fees made to TLScontact by Applicants on grounds that the Embassy of Belgium refuses to grant visas, or that the process of granting visa has been delayed, or on grounds that Applicants decide to withdraw the ongoing visa application once the procedure is underway and the Services are provided.

If TLScontact has, however, committed an act of gross negligence or of willful misconduct in relation to a visa application submitted, resulting in the visa not being granted or in loss of Applicant’s passport with valid visas, then TLScontact will refund to the Applicant the amount of the Service Fee only and the amount of the fees charged by the Applicant’s home country for the replacement of the lost or damaged passport or other document through their normal replacement procedure.

Cancellation Procedure:

If you intend to request for the cancellation of your appointment and refund, you must either send the form duly completed by the post to TLScontact as further set out in clause 14 of these terms and conditions or send an email to contact.th@tlscontact.com requesting for the cancellation at least seventy-two (72) hours prior to the scheduled appointment (excluding Saturday, Sunday and public holidays). Any request notice of cancellation received by TLScontact less than seventy-two (72) hours (excluding Saturday, Sunday and public holidays) prior to the scheduled appointment is not entitled to a refund.

Such email must provide and state the following:

(a) express intention of the Applicant to cancel the appointment;

(b) Order date;

(c) Order number (the Application Reference Number);

(d) Customer name and passport number;

(e) Service name;

(f) Proof of payment.

If any of the foregoing is not provided, the request for cancellation and refund shall not be accepted  and no fees shall be refunded.

Refund Processing Time and Method: Refunds for eligible cancellations will be processed within thirty (30) days from the date of cancellation request approval (such approval to be notified by TLScontact by email to the Applicant). We reserve the right to process the refund in the same currency and manner used for the payment of the TLScontact Fees or in any other currency and manner determined at the sole discretion of TLScontact. Please be advised that any refund requests will be processed immediately on our side, however, the processing time may vary depending on your bank’s policy.

We will only consider refunding the TLScontact Fees if you meet all the refund eligibility criteria described in this Clause 6. We reserve the right to decline your refund request at our sole discretion if you fail to meet any of these criteria.

You will be responsible for any transaction, expenses or charges incurred during the processing of the TLScontact Fees refund. No interest shall be paid by TLScontact on the refunded amount.

7.2 Rescheduling of Appointments:

An Applicant, who has paid the service fee, may reschedule his/her appointment if TLScontact is informed of such intention to reschedule at least seventy-two (72) hours (excluding Saturday, Sunday and public holidays)  before the scheduled appointment on the website within the applicant “Personal Center” page, in “My application”. An Applicant shall be ineligible to reschedule his/her appointment if no notice is provided to TLScontact at least seventy-two (72) hours (excluding Saturday, Sunday and public holidays) before the scheduled appointment.

If an Applicant has already rescheduled once, he or she shall be unable to schedule within the applicant “Personal Center” page. To reschedule an already rescheduled appointment, an Applicant can send an email to contact.th@tlscontact.com or contact the call centre +66 (0)2838 6688, from Monday to Friday 08:00 - 18:00, Saturday 08:00-12:00.” The rescheduling of a rescheduled appointment must also be done at least seventy-two (72) hours (excluding Saturday, Sunday and public holidays) before the re-scheduled appointment.

A second rescheduling is not guaranteed and will be subject to the availability and the sole discretion of TLScontact.

Such requests for rescheduling further to the immediately preceding paragraph must provide and state the following:

(a) express intention of the applicant to reschedule the appointment;

(b) at least three (3) alternative dates to which the appointment can be rescheduled to;

(c) state the Application Reference Number and passport number; and

(d) provide Proof of payment.

If any of the foregoing is not provided, the request for rescheduling shall not be accepted.

TLScontact’s determination on the available dates for a second rescheduling or whether an appointment may be scheduled to a different date shall be final and binding. Provided further, that an appointment that has been rescheduled may only be rescheduled once more; after such rescheduling no further rescheduling shall be permitted, and whether fees paid are refundable shall be determined in accordance with the provisions on cancellation and refund above.

The Embassy of Belgium gives no competence and powers whatsoever to TLScontact with regard to the assessment of visa applications or to make decisions regarding visa applications. As a result, TLScontact accepts no liability howsoever arising regarding the decisions made by the Embassy of Belgium with respect to your visa application and regarding any delay by the Embassy of Belgium in the assessing, granting or rejecting your visa application or for the requesting of further information with respect to your visa application.

TLScontact accepts no liability for loss, delay or non-issuance of any visa application or visa arising from or in connection with (including but not limited to) incomplete application forms, incorrectly or falsely completed application forms, and inaccurate, incomplete or false information or supporting documentation.

TLScontact accepts no liability to any Applicant or any other person relying on or benefiting from any visa application for any costs or expenses incurred in reliance on or in anticipation of receiving such visa, whether within a particular timeframe or at all, including but not limited to any travel and/or accommodation arrangements made.

TLScontact accepts no liability for any loss of profit, business interruption, loss of business or business opportunity, wasted expenditure, or any other loss or damage suffered or incurred by any person howsoever arising as a result of any delay, misplacement, loss or damage of visa applications, passports or other documents, or due to negligence or breach of contract in connection with any visa application or any advice or information given in relation to any visa application.

TLScontact accepts no liability to any Applicant or any other person relying on or benefiting from any visa application for any indirect, punitive, incidental, special, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever due to any delay, misplacement, loss or damage of visa applications, passports and other documents, or due to negligence or breach of contract in connection with any visa application or any advice or information given in relation to any visa application.

TLScontact shall not be considered to be in breach of contract and liable in any way for any delay, loss, damage to any passport or any other document or the visa application due to an event outside of the control of TLScontact including but not limited to any accident, theft, natural calamities, general electricity and telecommunications outages, strikes, riots, protests not arising out of a wilful misconduct of TLScontact.

TLScontact shall not be liable for any loss, delays, damages to any visa application, passport or any other documents caused by any third party and outside of the control of TLScontact.

TLScontact shall bear no liability for any delays, loss or damage to any visa application, any passport or any other documents, caused by, or occurring whilst in the possession of any third party courier service, including transportation of visa applications, passports or any other documents between TLScontact and the Embassy of Belgium or when being returned to the Applicant.

In the exceptional case where an Applicant’s submitted passport or other document is lost or seriously damaged which leads to the passport or other document being unusable due to a gross negligence act committed by TLScontact, TLScontact will refund to the Applicant only the Service Fee and the fees charged by the government of the Applicant’s home country for the replacement of the lost or damaged passport or other document through their normal replacement procedure. Applicant shall submit an original payment receipt in order to claim a refund.

TLScontact shall not pay to the Applicant any other costs incurred by the Applicant to obtain the replacement, including without limitation travel charges, accommodation charges, losses due to lost time.

The entity responsible for processing data collected for your visa application is TLS Contact Thailand.

TLScontact collects personal data from Applicants in relation to applications for Schengen visas, including information provided through printed and website application forms, passports and other documents. This information may include names, addresses, contact details, place of birth, passport details, employment details, travel details, etc.

TLScontact only requests, collects and processes personal data which is strictly required for the purposes of providing the Services subject to these terms and conditions, including but not limited for the purpose of the processing of your visa application and for the purpose of the performance of any Additional Service, which may require the sending of additional information about our Services.

You hereby consent to the collection, storage, processing and submission of your personal information by TLScontact as well as the cross-border transfer of your personal information should this be required by the visa application process with the Embassy of Belgium.

You hereby consent and acknowledge that TLScontact has the right to forward your personal data to partners entrusted with the strict performance of any or all Services subject to these terms and conditions. For any service not covered by these terms and conditions which may be offered by a third party to you, TLScontact will only share your data if you agree to do so. All third party partners undertake to provide a sufficient level of protection in respect of your personal data in order to ensure the security of your personal data.

Your Personal data is also retained and processed separately by the Embassy of Belgium in accordance with its data protection policies and procedures.

In accordance with applicable regulations, Applicants may have various rights with regard to the processing of their personal data, such as the right to be informed, to access, alter, rectify or erase their personal data, or to object and restrict processing of their personal data as well as on data portability.

These rights may be exercised in accordance with the conditions and procedures set out by a privacy notice published on TLScontact website and applicable to the Visa Application Centre where Applicants place their orders.

TLScontact website content is the intellectual property of TLScontact group and is protected by applicable intellectual property and antitrust laws.

Copying or placement of the information in whole or in part on other websites without the link to the TLScontact website is strictly forbidden and constitutes an act of infringement.

Furthermore, TLScontact shall retain all intellectual property rights in the photographs, presentations, studies, designs, models, prototypes, etc. created (including at the Applicant’s request) for the purposes of providing the Services. The Applicant therefore agrees not to reproduce or to use said studies, designs, models, prototypes, etc. without the express prior written authorization of TLScontact, for which TLScontact shall be entitled to request financial compensation.

These terms and conditions and the transactions contemplated herein shall be governed by the laws applicable in the country of the Visa Application Centre where the Applicant have submitted its Service order.

All disputes arising from provision of services or related transactions entered into pursuant to these terms and conditions regarding their validity, interpretation, performance, termination, consequences and implications, that cannot be resolved amicably between TLScontact and the Applicants, shall be referred to the courts with jurisdiction in terms of the laws applicable in the country of the Visa Application Centre where the Applicant have submitted their Service order.

TLScontact in its sole discretion, may change, amend, cancel or withdraw any or all of these terms and conditions at any time without any prior notice in accordance with the clause 1 of these terms and conditions. Any such change shall be displayed on the TLScontact website.

Clause headings are for ease only and are not used to interpret these terms and conditions.

TLScontact gives no warranties, and makes no representations which are not contained in these terms and conditions.

Any extension of time or indulgence which TLScontact may grant an Applicant is not a waiver of any of the rights of TLScontact, who may exercise any rights against the Applicant which may have arisen in the past or which might arise in the future.

All provisions of these terms and conditions are severable from each other, despite the way they have been grouped together or linked grammatically.

This form must be filled in and returned to the TLScontact VAC solely if the Applicant wishes to cancel a Service purchased on the Website, by phone or through a postal service, excepting the exclusions or limitations to the exercise of such right of cancellation such as provided for herein by these terms and conditions.

To the attention of TLScontact: (PLEASE INDICATE TLSCONTACT ADDRESS)

I hereby give notice that I cancel my contract for the supply of the following service:

• Order date: ..................................................................
• Order number (the Application Reference number): .................................
• Service Name: .............................................................................
• Customer name and passport number : ..........................
• Customer postal address and email address: ............
• Customer signature (solely for notification by printed copy of this form): ............
• Date: ............................................................................................