Visa on entry.
 

Someone has told us that India will be issuing Visa On Entry. Has anyone on the forum know any more about it. Sounds Good.

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They've been doing it at a few international airports for certain nationalities for a while now.
Always plenty of rumours but it hasn't been introduced for Brits yet.
Dabolim airport doesn't offer his facility for any nationality yet either.

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Oh well, thought it was too good to be true.

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Travel Biz Monitor :: E-Visa regime for 25-30 countries to be rolled out in a week’s time (with thanks from the Goan Voice)

30 day rule not so good if you want to stay longer !


P.S can you make sure that all future "Visa Help" postings be posted on that particular thread ?

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I have just read on Goan Voice that very soon you will have to book an appointment on line with visa people to give your Biometric details.Finger prints and photographs, to get a tourist visa ! This is the proverbial nail in the coffin for British Tourism in Goa. Visa on landing must be a thing of the past as far as the UK is concerned if they are going to implement this sort of regime then tourism is finished from over seas.Who ever thought this up must completely mad.I know there are quite a number of Pakistanis in the UK and India is completely paranoid about the Pak threat but these measures are off the wall.
Mind you look who is in charge now.RSS Grupenfuerer Modi and his bully boys...!

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These new measures are apparently worldwide not just UK. It will presumably be visa on arrival for short holiday tourist visas and the above measures for long term visas. Haven't studied it yet.
On quick reading it seems to also include OCI presumably new applications, but for this, applications are already quite complex.

UK not yet on visa on arrival list, perhaps this will happen after UK election and Mr Modi invited to UK by whoever is the PM then??

Paranoia about Pakistan? I suppose terrorist bombings and insurgencies do require a little thought???
Would agree that much of the security measure just trouble the innocent, the terrorists find a way.

Your obsession with RSS. Is not David Cameron influenced/irritated by right wing types? What would you suggest?? back to a Congress Government? It was a land slide victory, don't you believe in democracy? Do you as a foreign individual know better than the majority here??

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You remind me of Chamberlain in 1937 and Munich.Hitler also had a thumping majority by the electorate and look what happened afterwards.To say you are myopic in your world view is an understatement Bipat.Even Obama mentioned in one of his speeches last week that religious intolerance in India was growing daily.Churches attacked in Delhi and the continuous rumble by certain sections of the BJP concerning an Anti-Conversion Bill.Do you seriously think that the RSS are just outdated old fogeys ? Then you need to travel back to real India not Karwar, which is really insulated from whats happening in the north-the Hindu heartland.Modi represents religious intolerance pure and simple.What gets up my nose though is that religion is a load of superstitious rubbish. Hinduism is just a religion based upon animism,one of the oldest forms of religion.It goes back to the cave mens days and sabre toothed tigers.In real terms its just Animism with a nice dollop of philosophy attached to sweeten the unreality of a Elephant headed supernatural being.Modi got in because Congress had made such a mess of things that any alternative was good.As for democracy in India that has to be the biggest joke of all.Vote banks, illiteracy and ballot box stuffing.Rent a mob politics and 50% of parliament having a criminal record or cases pending before the courts ! Its easy commenting when you live in the UK but move to Kanpur and wear a crucifix and see if your view point changes.

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I think you are living in the last century PJ. What do you mean the "North Hindu Heartland"??? India is a Hindu majority country. Every state except Jammu and Kashmir is Hindu majority.

Karwar not "real India" what is it then???? 70,000 population, majority Hindu, approx. 1000 Christians, a Muslim community.
We have relatives which we visit and stay with in many towns in "the North", as well as far South.
Hinduism has evolved over the centuries. Do you know anything about the representational character of the 'gods' etc.? But having been part of an orthodox Hindu family (with some atheists in it) for approaching half a century:eek: can give you some tips if you like :lol:

Of course there is communal violence and religion is just one trigger, with a billion population not surprising.

Not democracy? the practices you describe are those of the Congress party. BJP does not have the money for bribery,--actually the majority of Indian people are literate and have access to TV, they can all listen to speeches.
My personal politics are left of centre, but really if Mr Modi can possibly produce change for the better why are you so negative??

(I am not sure that President Obama of USA is one who can give a lesson on religious tolerance his own country (certainly not his fault) is not exactly tolerant is it:lol:

CWSFDV-Govt won't allow any group to incite hatred: PM-Times of India-News

Suggest you give up the books and learn about real people!!!!!


PS Just a thought--- are you mixing up "Hindu heartland", with 'hindi speaking belt', totally different issues. Making Hindi as the national language was always controversial with the southern states.

Seem to be plenty of people happily wearing crucifixes in Kanpur
http://www.ucanindia.in/news/bjp-lea...ur/27148/daily!!!!

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if you believe what they print in the papers, especially in India, where there is no free speech at all, then you need to see a psychiatrist quick because your suffering from a very common ailment called optimism.Personally i grew out of it very quickly, in fact as soon as i could vote i realised that 99% of what politicians state comes out of the rear end of male cows. People who still go on believing usually end up with dementia as their long held beliefs slowly crumble away due to experience and age.Modi is an RSS apparatchnik pure and simple. a leopard doesnt change his spots over night.Modi has been involved with the RSS since the emergency under the other pro-violence Gandhi, indira.And he still is.I do not care what selective newspapers you read and i do not care what your delusions are either.At some point in the next 4 years you will realise that a single politician,given the herculean task he faces in regard of India's modernisation,will not make any headway unless he starts shoveling the BullS**t out of the way.Unfortunately the RSS are part and parcel of that pile of crap and he knows it.

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There seemed to be plenty of free speech in the recent Delhi election, were you aware it was going on ???
(I very much admire Kiran Bedi, although she was chosen too late).
I hardly read newspapers in detail, although OH does, you learn from people around , TV, emails from people elsewhere etc.
At least we agree on Mrs Gandhi, her land reforms lost us a great deal of land, (although that is not in the least important in the grand scheme of things) --she was basically wicked and her legacy lived on in Sonia.

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Visa on entry for UK tourists but you will still have to submit biometric data in person at a VHS office....defeats the purpose if you ask me.

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Read in Goan Voice that the whole idea of visa on entry is rubbish.You have to submit data on line 4 days before you land in India....!According to the article it allows them to check your application so that queues do not develop in your port of entry ! Makes sense but the whole visa saga is worrying.Its for the 30 days single entry ?

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Since when?

AndyD 8-)₹

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6th April Goan Voice Newsletter. scroll down its there.

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Nope, sorry - can't find it.

AndyD 8-)₹

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If you scroll down it is quoting an entry in the Hindustan Times, about the four days notice. It refers to other countries. UK does not yet have visa on arrival.
After UK election perhaps Modi will be invited to UK ??? and announce it then????

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Yes, I saw that ...what a mess up!... AndyD

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Its officially titled Visa on Line now.

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Apparently to save confusion 😕 THIS week its going to be called Visa Online not Visa on Arrival 😯

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.... but whatever it's called it's not available in UK (yet?).

AndyD 8-)₹

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Thats true another slog down Goswell Road.At least there is Kennedys fantastic fish & chip shop next door.One of the best in North London too.

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Visa on entry by June.....£30 for a months stay thats more realistic for tourism.

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Ever the optimist PJ - unless they've announced special prices for the UK it's around £42. That's an improvement but compares (as of today - E&OE) with free 30 day in Thailand and US $15 in Sri Lanka.

AndyD 8-)₹

P.S. It's in ToI online but I didn't see it in the Goa print version

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At east its not £92 with trimmings ! Got to attend a wedding in December in Delhi then Im off to Aurangabad to explore the area.I like The Deccan.

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All of it??? That's most of South India, I thought you preferred the North. (Hot bed of politics).
I wonder if there will be a reciprocal reduction in Visa charges for Indian visitors to UK? It is about £85 now.

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Aurangabad is 1800 feet above sea level so the nights are very cool with hardly any humidity.Its also very nice to wander around with no hassles from traders.Want to see the meteor crater near Ajanta and stay at Ellora.Found great places using AB&B web site.Yes The Deccan is big.Climb to the top of Dalutabad Fort the view is breathtaking if you get there early before the haze forms.Literally you can see for miles and miles across a flat landscape. Aurangzeb is buried just down the road.

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we were there in '73 - from what I see online there appear to be many more paintings in the Ajanta/ Ellora caves than there were back than. Can you still get to the caves by sedan chair?

AndyD 8-)₹

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No its very professional now with a visitors centre and paved walk ways.Small cafeteria and car park for coaches.One interesting fact that popped up while i was there last is how they painted in the darkness of the caves without blackening the ceilings from torches or oil lamps.They flooded the floor of the caves with water and used copper mirrors to reflect light into the interiors !

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what topic visas or Aurangbabad ?

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Is Visa on entry available for UK dwellers now ?

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yes, or no - depending on their nationality:-
https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/visa/tvoa.html

AndyD 8-)₹

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Useless Swedish and English here. Not going back to India till they sort this.

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They haven't updated the wording on the main page yet, but if you go to the Application page the UK is there -after a warning:
AndyD 8-)₹

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Have been waiting for this as one son hasn't got around to getting OCI and coming in December I am worried though about the timing particularly as one grandchild is 2 yrs. old and photo may not be easy to get. If one person's photo is refused etc.? Then there will then be a rush to get an ordinary visa.

Hope others will report on their experience.

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main page now updated.


AndyD 8-)₹

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Are the new visa for the 6 months or shorter

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The new E-Visa is valid for up to 30 days, single entry I think & you can have a maximum of 2 per year.

Rgds.

A.

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Surprisingly little activity on these forums - it's surely about the time when people start thinking about their trip?
re. VoE - I wonder how many new visitors to India will even find out about them - there's no hint on the vfs site that they even exist!

AndyD 8-)₹

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Strange i was thinking that myself a couple of days ago.The sad reality is that most of my old buddies from Candolim and Bobs Inn of the 80s & 90s have either gone up stairs or elsewhere.Going to Vietnam this year for a couple of months.Its cheaper to fly to Ho Chi Minh City from Heathrow than to Mumbai. less hassle with Visas.Good food and clean trains, going out at night a better deal too.No robbing taxi drivers, who in my opinion, have killed Goa for lots of elderly tourists.The Goan government need a serious reality check if they think they can re-connect with European tourism, even the Russians know when they are being conned by shady travel companies.A 2 star hotel in Vietnam is the equivalent of a 4 star in India.Turd infested beaches and highly polluted sea water ! People having a dump in the bushes because the toilets provided are broken and no can be bothered to report it ! The Goan Tourism Department is a disgrace and totally corrupt from bottom to top.How can you sell a place when you have to negotiate Baga Road, full of pot holes and dodgy Nigerians selling smack and coke to young Indians looking for a Bollywood night out down Titos Road !

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Vfs seems to have basic info. but no details. I have been searching as we have guests coming later in year with children, and I can't find anywhere about childrens applications, are they on the same type of form etc. The consent letters, signatures etc.
Also the worry about getting a good photo for a two year old, if one application rejected will the whole lot be rejected.

I read somewhere, but can't remember where, that on arrival, VoE people need to show sufficient funds to cover their stay. I wonder how this would be assessed, nobody carries cash!! Also prebooked accommodation or staying with relatives they wouldn't need much.

Hopefully there will be feed back on here or IM.