A licensed Canada immigration consultant for Botad, 169 km from your visa centre in Ahmedabad

The Visa Tales has no office in Botad. There are two offices in Gujarat, one in Bhavnagar and one in Ahmedabad, and neither is a branch here. The nearest is Bhavnagar, about 84 km by road. That distance is worth stating plainly rather than leaving vague, because a great many consultancy websites imply a local presence they do not have, and somebody who drives an hour expecting an office deserves better than an address that turns out to be a different city. The file is prepared and filed online under RCIC licence R710507 either way, so the distance changes nothing about the work, the timeline or the price. If you want to come in, you are welcome during office hours. If you would rather not, nothing about the case requires it. Ask any consultancy which of its listed cities it actually has a door in.

The CICC public register lists individuals rather than towns, so there may or may not be a registered consultant living in Botad and nobody can answer that from a search of the town's name alone. What you can check, and what actually protects you, is the licence itself. Search any name or number on that register before you hand over documents or money, wherever the office is and however long it has been there. It is free, it takes under a minute, and it returns the person's status rather than a description they wrote themselves. Ours is R710507, held by Jay Sharma, and we would rather you looked it up than took our word for it. An office in your own town with no licence behind it cannot represent you before IRCC at all.

Applicants from Botad give biometrics at the Canada visa application centre in Ahmedabad, about 169 km away. Canada runs ten of them in India and Ahmedabad is the only one in Gujarat, so there is no nearer alternative to look for. Biometrics are given in person, once, after a biometric instruction letter arrives with a deadline on it, and that letter comes near the end of the process rather than the start. So nobody needs to make the trip early or speculatively. One more thing is worth checking before you plan it: temporary residence applicants give biometrics once every ten years, so if you gave them for an earlier Canadian application you may not need to give them again.

There is no passport office in Botad district, so Botad has none of its own. Passport Seva covers Gujarat through 2 regional offices, 5 Passport Seva Kendras and 23 post office counters, and none of the 30 sits in Botad. The district answers to the Ahmedabad regional office, which is where an application from here is decided even though the appointment itself is taken elsewhere. That is worth knowing before you search, because a great many people assume every district has a counter and lose a morning finding out otherwise. Our directory of passport offices in Gujarat lists all 30 with their addresses and the districts each one serves, which is the faster way to find the nearest. A passport office issues Indian passports and does not deal with foreign visas, which is a distinction worth holding on to, because the two get conflated constantly and the order matters: the passport comes first and every visa application is built on it.