6 month tourist Visa - leave & re-enter?

And, here is the reply I just got from the Indian Embassy.

So, I guess that's my question answered and my travel plans are not possible.
Glad I didn't buy my tickets before applying for the VISA now.

There you go then.

Good job you checked, and sorry your plans are spoiled.

Did you bring to attention of the Embassy that IndiaMike said... Go ahead book your ticket - re-entry visa is not a problem and how dare they upend the practices of missions down under

A reminder that it was I who provided the email address and suggested Ironman contact the embassy.

Plan B:

Apply for the re-entry permit for the fabled "neighbouring tourism", say for travel to Bangladesh. Fly to and from Switzerland from Dhaka.


By the way, you originally wrote that you were going to Switzerland for Easter. Why then tell the embassy you were planning to go a month after you arrive in January, when Easter is in late March? And I'd certainly be making the point that I was joining family for the most significant commemoration in the Christian calendar, not just off on a jolly.

Sometimes amygdala and pre-frontal cortex does those things !!! It is orthogonal what excuse you give. The consul could be having a bad hair day
Pray what would he pay extra in differential ? While in theory it could work, but in practice BD is not the right country.

Why ? I leave that as an exercise and further research for whomever wants to attempt this 7 NT Double Redouble with Ace of Clubs not accounted for.


DAC-ZHR around March '13

CMB to FRA; FRA to BSL (or airport of choice in Switzerland)

It is the usual rule on these forums not to advise breaking the law / rules.

AndyD 8-)₹

What, like false claims on travel insurance by coercing your medical practicioner?

Surely there is more than a fair chance the extra trip would be spotted anyway. Immigration always seem to have a good look through my passport on entry, even picking away at the photo page on one occasion until I called for a supervisor..........

... and pretending you qualify for re-entry under the neighbouring country rule when you've actually been to Switzerland?

Yes!

AndyD 8-)₹

Not according to these rules:

http://www.indiamike.com/terms-of-use/


Really? - who said anything about coercion? What on earth makes you think that medical practitioners can be coerced?

Um, Rudi, certainly my doc I wouldn't expect to make or support a false travel insurance claim on my behalf. In fact it would never occur to me to ask them. And indeed I'd be surprised if they were willing to support it if I had the audacity to ask. Other than for say maybe very pressing medical reasons, that I can't readily think of right now.

I think we're all getting off into wild tangents of what remote exceptions we might be able to think of, though. It is neither relevant nor useful.

From all the information I have seen ever since this two-months-out rule was introduced (some two-three years ago), my advice would remain to, if you can, not plan a side-trip together with an Indian trip. Not because it would be impossible, but because any advice on it so far seems to be disastrously unclear.

Failing that, flying into the one country, out of the other, would seem like an easy solution. It will likely cost you, sure. So i.e. not planning to get back into India to leave again.

Unless ironman; the OP has lingering questions on this topic, this thread has become wobbly like a drunken sailor and should be incarcerated/locked

Consider that 'emergent situations' is an outmoded form of 'emergency'; that in Indian English 'may' (as has been observed frequently) means something close to 'will' - and in that light re-read the MHA website.

You may find that it is not so unclear.

AndyD 8-)₹

I had indeed been thinking of just that. Now consider that, as perhaps with bureaucratic lingo anywhere, but then certainly in India (what's that old joke? The British gave us bureaucracy, we perfected it), indeed "may" may range from anything like "it is a hypothetical possibility, but just don't count on it ever humanly happening," to indeed it "will." (The classic after an overstay or not complying with your visa requirements, you "may" be "granted exit" "within" 3 months. What that means in everyday parlance is you'll be unceremoniously kicked out of the country asap and quite possibly not allowed to ever return in any foreseeable future, and may consider yourself lucky to be allowed to leave at all, so instead of being withheld pending further procedures.)

Now have a look at those documents again.