India Visa/Passport News

The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to facilitate the procedures of getting medical treatment in India for foreigners with pre-existing conditions. Previously, foreign nationals already in India on valid visas could not get medical treatment in the event of falling sick during their stay in India, as a medical visa was mandatory. Doctors and other medical staff usually advised patients to convert their visas into medical visas before admitting them in hospitals/medical centers. According to [...]

Home to a population of 1.324 billion, India has also given to the world 4.7 million tourists in 2017 alone. However, Indian tourists often face difficulties traveling abroad due to visa requirements set by countries across the globe. Despite of being one of the largest South Asian countries, India has failed in reaching visa-free agreements with most of the worlds countries. Thus, its passport is listed in the 81th place, out of 106 positions, in the list [...]

Indian nationals are among those world citizens who can go abroad and enter more than 50 countries visa-free, or by obtaining a visa-on-arrival. Because of the visa-free agreements or visa-free policies of these countries (or visa-on-arrival), Indians can visit more than 1/4th of the countries around the world without having to follow procedures that take time and energy. According to the Henley Passport Index, which rates passports according to the number of countries their holders can enter [...]

The Indian consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa, has rejected the visa application of the president of the Baptist World Alliance and the religious head of the Baptist World Community, Reverend Paul Msiza, who was scheduled to attend a four day commemoration of 150 years of the Garo Baptist Church in Meghalaya. An official press release from the Baptist organization said Msiza, the Pope equivalent of the Baptists, had applied for visa on January 29, and he was [...]

A group of Australian journalists have lost their arranged flight to India and the opportunity to carry out a dozen of interviews with some of the brightest people in India, after the latter has not responded to their visa applications even after three months. Journalists of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, had received a grant to interview a wide range of people in India, including academics, environmental activists, satirists, journalists and historians for a radio series on the [...]