What if you overstay your 180 days?

Does anyone know what happens if you overstay your 180 days on a year-long tourist visa?

Oh, christ, please. Search around this site, or:

If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you'll find a listing of "similar threads." Opening any of those will again feature a list of similar threads at bottom, and so on and so forth. It's an easy way to navigate the site.

You're basically doing something you shouldn't be doing if you can avoid it. It's not peanuts either. So, er, you basically shouldn't.

i've been looking around the site and there aren't a lot of concrete answers, just a bunch of opinions. i'm not trying to overstay. this is why i'm on this site in the first place.

<cross-posted. Yes, sorry, the question gets asked quite a bit, and people seem to think the (rather strict) rules are there for them to play around with. Not the wisest of ideas in some far-away country I'd say.>

nb I realize only now you say you have a 1-year visa. For what nationality is that if I may ask? That's just handy to know to advise people on future queries.

I don't know, a visa like that isn't so common to most nationalities. I know there exists a ten-year one for US citizens, but it still involves getting out of the country every 180 days. Which seems to be a mere formality indeed though.

So how it would work in your case I don't know. My guess would be you'd have to hop over the border yes, and within that period.

Maybe call your embassy about it, or contact the FRRO: http://immigrationindia.nic.in/ .

So why will asking the question again elicit a different response?
I don't think I know of anyone here who's overstayed their visa in India, so all you're going to get are opinions, to be honest. I do know of someone who is going through a bureaucratic mess trying to sort out a visa that was just about to expire without leaving the country. Forms, forms, baksheesh and a possible journey to the other end of the country is what happens, if their situation is anything to go by. And they have back up in high places.

Don't do it. You've posted another thread about getting over the border- concentrate on that one.

If you're not intending to overstay, this thread is kinda pointless, isn't it?

Apologies if this seems short and curt, I'm not the best of moods this week for various reasons.

<cross-posted with Karuna>

... But, btw, I'm not sure what you're asking instead. Overstaying is overstaying, period, and it isn't allowed, as you might expect it wouldn't be. That's why that visa has an expiry date, and it doesn't mention "extend at will."

machadinha: US nationality

karuna: first question answer, because i am thisclose to going over and if i can't get an exit worked out in time, i want to be prepared for what may happen. second question answer, because people join this forum in the interim who may know the answer.

You have to get an exit worked out in time, really. You cannot overstay a visa. It results in a big big headache for you and a loss of money you say you don't have. Work out the exit, seriously.

also, because policies change. many of these threads are 2 or more years old.

Does your visa say "Stay must not exceed 180 days"?
Then no policy change!
The situation I refer to in post #5 is happening now. It doesn't really deviate from anything anyone's said on this issue, I think. Don't do it, it's a bureaucratic nightmare. Plan that exit! Really!

<cross-posting once again...>

Er, well, yes, if anything it's getting stricter as we speak.

Don't even try it, unless you were hit by a bus or so, which is what the (very) provisional extensions are meant for anyway.

Would you expect it to be any different for foreign visitors to your country? Regulations are just very strict, there's little do do about it. Those six months most of us get are rather generous anyway.

Here's a thread from two months ago on the issue:

Overstaying a Visa by 7 Days Question

Agh, we've done it so many times before, I don't even know why I answered. (But thanks for your posts Karuna.)

"No, but you see I've read all about it before, but I thought there must be something so special about me personally that I won't get malaria/get kicked out of the country/fined/jailed whatever despite all I ostensibly read."

Yeh, right, whatever. Have good fun with it.

GoriGirl, you mentioned on that other thread Karuna pointed to that you need to get out after 180 days. So that's what you'll have to do. (That is indeed my understanding of any extended US visa btw.) Consider yourself lucky if you have the luxury of a 1-year visa and so it should be relatively hassle-free, most people don't get that at all.

Thanks. I'll just go to FRRO tomorrow and ask them what I should do.

I think we just played bad-cop / bad-cop Mach.

But I hope it helps, gorigirl, and also anyone else reading this thread, at least! Don't overstay your visa or we'll be curt with you!