| Indian Visa and Passport Questions - Q&A about the legal stuff!! |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
Dec 4th, 2007, 02:34
|
#16 |
|
Maha Guru Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Brooklyn, via New Orleans
Posts: 1,022
|
So, the time has come to start filling out visa paperwork (I'll do my lining up at the "outsourcing office" one day next week).
Wee hitch -- I'm a filmmaker and graphic designer. I'm sure it's nothing, but reading this thread has me nervous about putting anything even vaguely media related down on my visa application, for fear that a simple process will become a complicated one. I have no plans to do any formal work while in India. What should I do? Am I OK saying I'm a graphic designer, or is that close enough to raise suspicion? Should I just invent something more innocuous? |
|
|
|
Dec 4th, 2007, 02:40
|
#17 |
|
Maha Guru Member
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Land that shakes and bakes.
Posts: 3,020
|
Designer, pure and simple. Make comments like green shag is coming back in. If they say anything ask 'em out for a little drink..
|
|
|
|
|
Dec 4th, 2007, 02:43
|
#18 |
|
Maha Guru Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Brooklyn, via New Orleans
Posts: 1,022
|
Fantastic! A "designer" I shall be, dahlink!
|
|
|
|
|
Feb 8th, 2008, 03:30
|
#19 |
|
Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Bellingham, WA
Posts: 4
|
Single-entry visa
Wish I'd read this first! I wrote "writer" on my application, and the outsourcing people called me to clarify that I was not a journalist.
When the visas arrived, my boyfriend, a corrections officer, had a multiple-entry tourist visa, but I had a single-entry journalist's. Major inconvenience, because we planned to spend one night in Delhi before going to Kathmandu and later returning to India. Now we have to spend 10 hours in the Delhi airport (not the nicest place, I understand) and hope my passport doesn't get stamped while I'm there! My title is "information officer" but I thought that would raise more red flags than "writer." Will have to think of something better before the next time I apply for a visa. |
|
|
|
|
Feb 8th, 2008, 11:30
|
#20 |
|
Loud-mouthed, Noisy Bird
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Chennai, India
Posts: 23,120
|
Welcome to the site
 These people are paranoid. Like, out of all the world's writers, how many are journalists? But that's the way it is, and this has to be worked around. 
__________________
.  IndiaMike Mod Team (The Grumpy One) 
|
|
|
|
Feb 9th, 2008, 00:28
|
#21 |
|
Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Bellingham, WA
Posts: 4
|
Titles
After giving it some thought, I'm thinking "spokeswoman" might be a better term to use in the future.
Or is that equally threatening? |
|
|
|
|
Feb 9th, 2008, 01:51
|
#22 |
|
Loud-mouthed, Noisy Bird
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Chennai, India
Posts: 23,120
|
Try... Cleaner.
 |
|
|
|
|
Feb 9th, 2008, 02:19
|
#23 |
|
....moving right along.
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 44
|
This has always been an issue with me as well, as I have a journalism degree and some of the work I do is journalistic in nature. I always avoid putting it on any form, prefering "media coordinator" or even IT manager (some of what I do strays into that). Never journalist. Don't want to go down that road.
__________________
Bueller? Bueller? |
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Visa Roundup: Tourist Visa FAQs | Nick-H | Indian Visa and Passport Questions | 62 | Jul 20th, 2007 17:12 |
| Changing tourist visa to a student visa | samjay | Indian Visa and Passport Questions | 6 | May 17th, 2007 10:59 |
| Journalist in Mumbai | mediamad | India Expat Area | 1 | Jan 17th, 2006 12:03 |
| Wrong visa info given in London visa office | Aquaman | Indian Visa and Passport Questions | 2 | Nov 5th, 2005 21:08 |
| Indonesian visa- For nationals not on the Visa-on-Arrival List? | Adriane&Salvador | India Expat Area | 6 | Oct 17th, 2005 23:27 |
Linear Mode
