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visum nieuws 19-12-62009

  • Anonymous avatar

    johan

    onderstaand bericht las ik vanmorgen (op mijn veranda in zuid India) in de Hindu. Klaart er een zonnestraal aan de hemel???/

    NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said on Friday that the government was in the process of streamlining visa and immigration procedures to attract more visitors.

    Addressing a meeting of the Parliamentary consultative committee of his Ministry here on “Visa, Immigration and Foreign Contribution,” he said, at present about five million foreigners visited the country every year but the number was too small for a large country like India.

    The number could be increased through simplifying visa procedures and other measures, he told the meeting. The Home Minister said the foreigners’ division of the Ministry which dealt with visa issues would be revamped through the use of information and communication technology.

    A project estimated to cost about Rs. 20 crore would be implemented from January 2010 onwards for the purpose.

    “Visa on Arrival Scheme” will be implemented for Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Luxembourg and Finland for one year on an experimental basis. A programme has been drawn up for modernisation of the 77 Immigration Check Posts (ICPs) in the country, he said.

    The Home Minister said a Mission Mode Project (MMP) on Immigration, Visa and Foreigners Registration and Tracking, estimated to cost Rs. 1,011 crore would be taken up to develop and implement a secure and integrated service delivery framework for facilitating legitimate travellers and strengthening security. The project would be implemented over a period of four-and-a-half years, beginning April 2010. It would network 169 Missions, 77 ICPs, five FRROs (Foreigners Regional Registration Offices) and over 600 Foreigners Registration Offices (FROs) with the Central Foreigners’ Bureau.

    The Visa Manual, he said, was being rewritten and the final draft was likely to be ready by the end of next month.

    On receipt of foreign contribution by associations, Mr. Chidambaram said out of about 34,000 registered associations, only about 18,000 submitted the annual audited return within nine months of closure of the financial year, as required. While the government wanted to encourage foreign contribution for genuine purposes, it would have to be ensured that the money received was not misused.

    Those who attended the meeting included Mahmood A. Madani, K. Malaisamy and Mohd. Ali Khan from Rajya Sabha, Thokchom Meinya from Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran, Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai and Secretary (Border Management) Vinay Kumar.

    © Copyright 2000 - 2009 The Hindu

  • Anonymous avatar

    Herman backer

    Helaas Johan,

    Dit is op dit moment alweer een beperking in rond reizen.

    Ik woon !! hier nl ook om het half jaar naar Nederland familie en vrienden bezoeken en naar de ambasade voor een nieuw visum en met een week weer terug naar india.

    Kan het in de toekomst dus wel vergeten.

    De regels die uiteindelijk gaan gelden kunnen nog wel 3 jaar op zich laten wachten, dus kijk goed rond wat zijn de mogelijkheden.

    An unannounced change to India’s visa rules now bars tourists from returning to the country within two months of a

    visit.

    Henk

  • Anonymous avatar

    johan

    Het enige wat ik wil Henk, is een half jaar visum. Ik kom al vanaf 1993 elk jaar voor vijf maanden in India (kan dit mooi combineren met mijn werk in Nederland) ondanks de veranderde regels net voordat ik mijn visum aanvroeg kreeg ik na een interview toch een 6 maanden visum al is het balen dat het een single entry visum is. want ik wilde met nieuw jaar naar de Maldiven. Ik hoop dat ik in september 2010 weer een half jaar visum kan krijgen.

  • Anonymous avatar

    herman

    Niet alleen voor Johan.

    Johan zoals je ziet zijn de visa regels alweer aangepast, gelukkig wel , volgende keer maar weer multi enrty aanvragen en ook dan krijgen.!!!!

    Groet henk

    Re-entry visa norms relaxed

    PTI

    NEW DELHI, DEC 24

    Faced with protests and complaints over tightening of visa regulations, government has decided to relax norms on re-entry into India for bonafide tourists subject to certain conditions.

    The relaxation has been made to the guidelines, issued on November 4, under which foreigners holding long-term multi-entry tourist visas would have to be out of India for two months before re-entering.

    “To facilitate bonafide tourists, it has since been decided that foreigners holding tourist visas, who after initial entry into India plan to visit another country and re-enter India before finally exiting, may be permitted two or three entries, as the case may be, by the Indian Missions/Posts,” a Foreign Ministry Spokesman said in a statement.

    This will be subject to their submission of a detailed itinerary and supporting documentation (ticket bookings).

    “The Immigration authorities in all immigration check posts in India have also been authorized to allow tourists to make two or three entries, as the case may be, based on production of an itinerary and documentation (ticket bookings) substantiating the need for tourism related travel,” he said.

    The move to relax the guidelines came after the US and the UK voiced concerns over the tightening of the norms resulting in a lot of problems for the travellers.

  • Anonymous avatar

    Sundri

    Berichtjes van goede hoop. Wie weet wat het nieuwe jaar en de uitkomst van de pilot visa at entering India moge brengen. Hopelijk wordt dat laatste op een zeker moment ook voor Nederlanders van toepassing.