Visa on arrival but apply 4 days ahead

April 17, 2015 14:43

'I've just stumbled upon a small but significant and, I would add, critical discovery. What the government proudly boasts of as visas on arrival is actually nothing of the sort,' writes journalist Karan Thapar in the Hindustan Times.

'Even worse, we used to have visa on arrival for 12 countries but that's no longer the case. What's taken its place is an email visa, which has to be applied for a minimum four days before you reach India. Yet the government still calls it visa on arrival and that's not just untrue it can also be horribly misleading,' he says.

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