Jul22546 European Travel Awards 2026 eadquartered in Berlin, with offices also in Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg and a satellite office in Düsseldorf, Deutsche Visa und Konsular Gesellschaft (DVKG) is Germany’s innovative provider of consular services for the global travel and HR industry. The company is an expert in taking over its customers’ administrative processes in the area of consular services, support applicants in navigating the extensive consular hurdles in a sustainable, secure, and cost-efficient manner. “DVKG pursues the goal of supporting you with your global visa requirements. A separate brand has been set up for global service fulfilment: Global Consular Services (GCS).” Growing from a simple idea into a company serving people in almost every country, DVKG today covers the likes of the Posted Workers Directive across all EU and EFTA states, visas from all countries to all countries, and compliance across workation, immigration, and business travel. The global consular services the company delivers are aided by Sophia, a proprietary AI solution it developed from the ground up, with this supporting its team and its customers across the entire process. Behind DVKG are two fundamental values: an unwavering focus on its employees and an unwavering focus on the customer. Exploring these in more detail, the former is achieved by giving every member of the team independence and full responsibility. The benefit of this is that they can see first-hand the outcomes of their decisions, and grow as a result. This, in turn, sees every member of the team offer a high-quality service to customers. Receiving this level of service is a significant advantage for the customer, which could be the applicant (the person travelling or assisting someone else looking to travel), or the likes of decisionmakers, HR, and travel management providers. Regardless of who the customer is, they are treated with consideration and respect by DVKG, which strives to learn who they are and offer solutions tailored to them. This rigorous approach covers everything from a 24/7 on-call service to ensuring that all the settings on its digital, AI-led portal are customised to align with the customer’s policy. The bureaucratic applications involved in consular services, the ones DVKG was Best Global Consular Provider 2026 & Digital Consular Innovation Award 2026 Ten years ago, Julius Heintz founded Deutsche Visa und Konsular Gesellschaft mbH (DVKG) as a way of making tedious consular administrative processes digital, and thus more straightforward. From smartphone visa applications to intuitive interfaces with all of the information a person needs after booking a trip, the idea was to usher in a brighter future for business travel compliance and global consular services. A decade later, we caught up with Julius to find out more about DVKG’s success. created a decade ago to solve, are now made possible through a single click, minimising the time and stress they cause people. Julius explained: “We now offer solutions that allow applicants to submit applications – such as social security certificates, PWD notifications, and visas – compliant with regulations with just one click.” Continuously streamlining its services and its offerings is something DVKG has been doing right from day one, including during the pandemic, where Julius was able to keep every member of staff and avoid incurring any losses. In fact, it was quite the opposite, as investments in IT and service quality saw it return with a steep growth curve when a sense of normality arose starting in early 2022. As for what this development looks like in numbers, Julius is incredibly proud of the fact that DVKG has experienced steady H Contact: Julius Heintz Company: Deutsche Visa und Konsular Gesellschaft mbH (DVKG) Web Address: https://dvkg.de/en
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