{"id":3167,"date":"2026-02-15T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2026-02-15T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:21:57","slug":"temporary-shutdown-of-the-vis-it-system-12th-17th-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2026\/02\/temporary-shutdown-of-the-vis-it-system-12th-17th-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary shutdown of the VIS IT system (12th-17th February 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Embassy of Italy in Abidja hereby informs that, from <strong>12 February 2026 at 5:00 p.m.<\/strong> (Abidjan time) until <strong>17 February 2026 at 11:00 p.m.<\/strong> (Abidjan time), the VIS IT system will undergo<strong> a temporary shutdown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This scheduled and urgent technical intervention will result in the <strong>temporary suspension of all activities related to the receipt and processing of visa applications<\/strong>, as well as the <strong>issuance of entry visas<\/strong>. The suspension will affect both the Visa Office of the Embassy of Italy in Abidjan and the centre operated by <strong>VFS Global \u2013 C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/strong>, located on Rue des Carrossiers, Treichville Zone 3, Centre commercial HLM, ground floor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To minimise inconvenience to the public, <strong>appointments already scheduled will be rearranged in the days immediately before or after<\/strong> the shutdown period, taking into due consideration priority needs and urgent cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Embassy of Italy in Abidja hereby informs that, from 12 February 2026 at 5:00 p.m. (Abidjan time) until 17 February 2026 at 11:00 p.m. (Abidjan time), the VIS IT system will undergo a temporary shutdown. This scheduled and urgent technical intervention will result in the temporary suspension of all activities related to the receipt [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambabidjan.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}