Friday, August 28

Trip home gets off to dicey start as Graham's Indian tourist visa is refused

Right - so it turns out that in order to get a tousrist visa for India from the UK not only does your passport need to be valid for at least another six months but (and this is not stated anywhere on their website) your UK visa/leave-to-remain must also not expire less than 6 months before your visa application date.

Graham's UK visa expires in November this year....bugger.

So we've been told the only other way for him to get his visa is to send his passport to the Indian High Comission in Wellington where it will take ten working days to process.

But we want to leave the UK in seven days from now!

We've had some ideas of how we can tackle this, but it's fair to say that our first encounter with Indian bureau-crazy has not gone too well ; )

All I can say is India better be worth the trouble!!!

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