2 month rule and tourists
 

Ive been reading on tripadvisor goa, which is a forum for 2 week tourists.
Many of these 2 weekers, visit Goa 2, 3, 4, times on the same tourist visa, as we all know.
So far many are still doing this, and as far as ive read none have been refused, even returning inside the 2 months.:thumbsup:

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Hi Steve.
I think it is from when you get the next visa.

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Hi Leegrand,
Its a brave person who takes that chance.
Regards
Bryson

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Thats what i said on the visa post but was corrected, my friend was informed by the IHC if you have a mulitiple entry tourist visa you can come and go, but if you are renewing a tourist visa you will not be given a new one for 2 months.....

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This is incorrect, or your friend misunderstood. A multiple entry tourist visa does NOT allow one to come and go without complying with the two-month gap requirement, period, so please stop repeating this misinformation. If you have a multiple entry visa, you can "come and go" as long as you observe the two-month gap. If you are applying for a new visa, in addition to having to comply with the two-month gap requirement, you will also have to wait at least one month before even applying for the new visa.

There are only two possible exceptions to the requirement that there has to be a two-month gap between visits:

(1) In the first exception, a person who is outside Indian but needs to re-enter before two months has elapsed since his/her last visit (and I say "needs" because there is an indication that permission to re-enter early will only be given in exigent circumstances, e.g., need to visit a sick family member or something like that, not mere "tourism" - so you can't just say "I'd just like to go back to Goa again, please" - just because you feel like it) can apply to their nearest HCI/Consulate for permission - and I'm aware of several people who have been denied.

(2) In the second exception, a person who is visiting India but also wants to make a brief "side trip" or two to some nearby country or countries (typically Nepal, or Bhutan, or Sri Lanka) may get permission to do this, apparently even at the time of passing through Indian immigration (i.e., without prior clearance from the traveler's nearest HCI/Consulate before departure), as long as the traveler presents a detailed itinerary for the side trips. Re-entry after these side trips will not "re-set" the 180-day period for the maximum allowable stay on any one visit. In other words, the side-trips are almost treated like a part of one's "basic trip" to India. But once the traveler makes his/her "final" departure from India on that trip, the two-month gap requirement again applies and would require pre-departure permission from the HCI/Consulate to re-enter before the two months has expired.

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New regulations will bring in genuine tourists: Mickky
In the TOI today thanks Mickky

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow/5442458.cms

This isnt looking good
GC;)

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I read the article with amazement. For a Minister of Tourism to make such comments about his customers ( tourists are customers after all ) I can only hope that they all vote with their feet.

I also fail to understand what passes for logic in his brain. On the one hand he suggests that long term retirees live on the dole ( well maybe some do but not the majority I am sure ) then another time there are the now usual boring racist tirades against retirees buying up property. I ask what are these properties all bought with? dole money scrounged from the uk state? I doubt it very much.

Most rational countries would simply ask a prospective long term visitor to prove how they plan to finance their visit. It would be a simple matter for most people to prove this. The first time I ever visited the uS over 40 years ago I was asked to provide this type of information when I applied for my Visa. Why is such a simple step so difficult for this country to take?

I know that all those electricians, carpenters, painters etc plus the furniture shops and supermarkets who cater year round to the needs of the long term retirees living here will be the ones to suffer most when the long termers have gone and the money dries up. It won't be the likes of the Minister who suffers.

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Hi erinsgirl,
100% agree, but get your grammer correct he said 'doles' ignorant man.
how does he think we live for six months, we have to eat, use public transport, employ staff therefor spending money! We don't get any hand outs from him

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my travel agent has just advised me that if you are on a tourist visa you cannot book a return flight from india to the uk if the return is within two months of the departure date, less work for immigration i guess

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should that be:
a return flight from the UK to India if the return is within two months ??

AndyD 8-)#

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Andy really, I'm surprised at you. Read that again please...

There is NO rule for us about re-entering the UK within two months is there?

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if you are in india on a tourist visa and book a flight to the uk the return flight to india must be sixty days after your departure from india according to my travel agent here in panjim

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sorry - I read 'return flight' as 'a flight back' not 'an outbound and return flight' - and I used to work for an airline... Doh! - senior moment!!

AndyD 8-)#

P.S. but how would a travel agent know whether you were on a T visa?
P.P.S. cross-posted with milky1; - so they're checking visas! I wonder how the online agencies will handle it.

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when i tried to book a return flight the first question she asked was what visa i held

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http://oheraldo.in/news/Main%20Page%...nes/32414.html

This might answer your questions gentleman as the state is gearing up for the new 2 month rule,they might have told all the travel agents to warn of this new ruling
GC