Saturday, June 13, 2020

Visa curbs eased in more categories

Visa curbs eased in more categories

13/06/2020

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday exempted additional categories of foreigners from the existing visa restrictions, allowing them to travel to India.

The fresh categories include “foreign national who are minor children where at least one of their parents is an Indian citizen or OCI card holder; foreign national married to Indian citizens; foreign nationals who are single parents of minor children holding Indian passports or OCI cards; students who are foreign nationals where at least one of their parents is an Indian citizen or OCI card holder; and dependent family member of foreign diplomats/ official service passport holding service staff accredited to foreign diplomatic missions, counselor offices of accredited international organizations in India.”

The foreigners will have to seek fresh visas.

On May 22, MHA had allowed a limited category of Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders, stranded abroad, to come to India.

The life-long visa to OCIs was temporarily suspended in March in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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