Change to tourist visa rules re multiple entries - 60-day-out rule scrapped

I have a 5 year x visa, will these new rules effect me??????????.
Anyone know?????????

It was only supposed to apply to tourist visas, but there have been reports of people with entry and other visas being affected too.

The situation is rapidly changing, there has still been no official announcemnt of the policy, which is apparently still being formulated, and right now nobody can say for sure what will happen to anyone at any particular port of entry.

please can someone just tell me if i can still stay in india for 180 days and then have to leave india for 2 months on a tourist visa,or is it just 90 days.

What does your visa say?

hi really did not make myself clear at all lol
when i leave india in march can i leave for 2 months and then get another 6 month tourist visa under the new rules?

With the way the Indian Goverment is acting at present, without warning or notice, "what your visa says" is totally irrelevant!

I am currently in Pakistan ( left India before the new Rules) & a PIO card holder--- has anyone heard if this 2 month rules applies to card holders?
Some information I have read states that it does & others say no.I have tried calling the IHC in Islamabad but no reply due to the holidays here.

There's no indication that it will apply to PIO cardholders as, technically, it's not a visa, but an exemption from requiring a visa.

That said, the rules are still being sorted out, and are being applied inconsistently. Also, you're in Pakistan, and entry to India is likely not the same as entering from many other countries.

Please post the result of your return, even if there's no issue at all, for the benefit of others in similar situations.

The visa rules are in the process of changing, no one knows for certain. If your passport of visa history shows a history of back-to-back visas and visits to India, you may have a difficult time with a new six-month visa. Do post the results of your experience, as it's helpful for others in similar situations.

Will keep you posted--- will be here for a few weeks--- but will be returning via Abu Dhabi to Trivandrum ----so not sure what will happen.

In the past, if you applied for a new visa in your home country, there has not been any problem with getting a back to back six months tourist visa.

We frankly do not know what the situation will be under the new rules, or even whether or not they apply to people from the UK with six month Indian visas, but as they say that you can enter India again after two months, I would not be at all surprised if for now they would issue a second six month visa after two months.

But... Watch this space.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/i...ow/5374718.cms

I was actually looking for the online link to the ToI dated 23/12 which I picked up at the airport when I left India on Xmas eve, but this was the nearest I could find, however better as it is more up to date!

I was refused a visa in Sri Lanka in the week following David Headley's capture, although I knew nothing about him or what was going on at the time. The reason for rejection given to me by the high commission was 'new rules'- "you cannot apply for a new visa in a country which is not your own unless you have been out of India for a minimum of 2 months", but then the visa officer advised me that he thought it was highly likely that I would have to wait for 2 months even when applying back in the UK.

I'm back here now (and freezing my a** off!!) and hoping to get back asap, my plan is to apply for a new visa on tuesday, crossing my fingers that I will count as one of the exceptions as a 'bone fide tourist', just wondering if anyone has applyed for their visa in England in the past few weeks (after having just got back from India) and what their experiences were?

Also, I have a friend who got stuck in Thailand for a couple of weeks while I was in Sri Lanka getting rejected, he managed to find out that the visa embassy in Phnom Penh in Cambodia seemed to give him a visa no problem even after his having been rejected in 2 centres in Thailand just days before. Hope this is of help to anyone.

SO FAR nobody has reported having to wait two months since leaving India before applying for a visa in the UK, in fact it is still uncertain whether or not the new rule should apply to people with only six month tourist visas anyway!

If you do apply for one in the UK, please report your experience back to the UK Visa Thread, as this will prove very useful for people who are currently trying to decide what to do.

Another data point: I have a long-term (T) visa and make multiple, short-term (less than 1 month) trips/year and my last one was only a month ago. I had sent Travisa (Houston) an email asking about whether I could try to come anyway since my passport wasn’t already stamped with the new rule and they told me “no”.

However, by that time it was too late to try to get an exemption letter due to the holidays. So since I was looking at the loss of several, non-refundable tickets anyway, I decided to throw myself on the mercy of the immigration official by just showing up and pleading my case.

As it turned out, I had this big speech prepared, but decided to keep quite to see if it would even be necessary and the official (in Delhi) ended up stamping me through without even a question!

I suspect it’s either because I’m on some “good list” (already examined and found to be overall positive for India—I’ve published research on several Indian languages) or the fact that it was 2am and the officials were just too tired to argue :-)

“I love my India”

my son's multiple-entry tourist visa for 5 years expires on January 15, 2010. He can get his visa extended for a few more months by FRO. Does anyone know if he will get into trouble at the airport with immigration officers with this new rule? He is 19yrs ole does not have any experience with these rules and regulations. He will be travelling alone. He has to stay there a little longer because he is trying to get into medical college there. After he comes back to canada, we will apply for student visa.
All I want to know is whether this extension of his visa by FRO will be valid at the airport? Anyone with similar experience?