Canada passport stamping time at VFS Kolkata: about 15 days right now
Passports handed in at VFS Kolkata are taking about 15 days to be stamped and sent back right now. Most passports handed in on 25–29 Sept 2026 are now back. People who handed in 30 to 60 days ago waited about 21 days (median), 9 in 10 within 25 days.
Based on 776 passports we've seen sent back by Blue Dart · Updated
How long Canadian visa passports handed in at VFS Kolkata take to be stamped and sent back. We read Blue Dart's public tracking records for the passports VFS India sends back by courier, every morning.
No. For Canada, IRCC decides first, online, while you keep your passport. You hand it in only after IRCC approves your application and asks for it (the passport request). Everyone in these numbers is already approved; this shows how long the stamping and return take. For the decision itself, see IRCC's own processing times.
In calendar days, from the date in your VFS tracking ID (the day you handed in your passport, for example 20260825 in 20260825INCDPKT84800) to the day Blue Dart picks the passport up from VFS. Delivery usually takes one more day; 9 in 10 arrive within 3.
Passports go back in batches, and not strictly in order. About one in ten come back in around 9 days; most of the rest follow in big batches a week or two later, and a few take longer. Look at your date in the chart to see how many from your day are back so far.
We can only see passports sent back by courier, about one in three. Passports collected in person probably follow the same batches, but we can't see them, so treat the dates as a guide.
No. Every tracking ID looks the same (PKT) whatever the visa, so visitor visas, study and work permits and PR passports are counted together. If your group seems faster or slower, say so in the discussion.
No. It's an independent, free tool, not connected to IRCC, VFS Global or Blue Dart. We never read or store names from the courier records.
Once a day, Tuesday to Saturday, at about 6:30 AM IST, once the previous evening's Blue Dart pickups show up. No passports go out at weekends.
About VFS Kolkata
VFS Kolkata takes Canadian passports from West Bengal and eastern India. Fewer passports go through it than the big centres, so its numbers move in bigger steps.
Canada passport stamping time at VFS Kolkata, India
Passports handed in at VFS Kolkata are taking about 15 days to come back right now, about the same as the Canada average across India (16 days). That makes it number 6, counting from the quickest, of the 10 Canada centres with enough recent data. We've seen 776 passports returned from VFS Kolkata since 7 Jul 2026, 2% of all the Canada passports we track. Most of them left on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The latest dispatch we saw was on 9 Oct 2026, and the newest hand-in date with a passport back is 6 Oct 2026.
Every number here comes from Blue Dart courier records: after the visa office puts the visa in, VFS sends the passport back by Blue Dart, and we read those shipments every morning. Your VFS tracking ID starts with the day you handed in your passport, which is the date the charts are grouped by.