VFSGlobal Charges for CS While Breaking UX with a Non-Functional Keyboard

urjit.io

2 points·anachronox··3 comments

Someone needs to disrupt this space. Dealing with VFS has been a hassle for millions of people but sadly only people with weaker passports are impacted. Can't wait for EU to implement their own digital schengen visa portal (it was unfortunately delayed).

They just added an on-screen keyboard which doesn't even work and seem like a "keep engineers busy" strategy. Have they ever heard of password managers?

Ah yeah, never figured out how to login after creating an account on that website. The login page I always ended up on doesn't look like the one in screenshot, though? The one I saw looked more like a 90s login page: https://row5.vfsglobal.com/GlobalAppointment/Account/Registe...

Ended up flying back to the home country to get my IDs renewed. It's fun when you ID expires in less than six months so you can't leave the country until you got your new IDs

Ha that page is funny - the sign-in button just has a disabled cursor now. What a shitshow.

I finally figured out a way to script that input form from chrome dev tools (https://urjit.io/blog/vfs/#update)

``` const input = document.getElementById('password'); const event = new Event('input', { bubbles: true }); input.value = 'password'; input.dispatchEvent(event); ```

Reply on news.ycombinator.com