British tourists wanting to visit India will now have to turn up at an application centre and be fingerprinted in order to get a visa.
Tour operators fear that the requirement for biometric testing is an extra hurdle that will deter potential visitors, who will be required, from March 14, to show up at one of 14 new application centres around the UK.
Visa applicants will first have to book individual appointments at one of the centres online. “Each family member has to lodge an individual application," said Darrren Bridges, director of visa agent Travcour. "There is no guarantee that the appointments will be one after the other, so you could have Dad, say, getting his at 9am; Mum getting hers at 10am and so on.”
His company, which arranges visa applications on behalf of tourists, only found out about the new rules yesterday.
“Depending on where you live it will be a nightmare,” he continued, explaining that, although more centres are due to open, only three currently exist. “They left it incredibly late to tell us.” The extra centres will be in cities including Cardiff, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool and Belfast. Full story...
Related posts:
Tour operators fear that the requirement for biometric testing is an extra hurdle that will deter potential visitors, who will be required, from March 14, to show up at one of 14 new application centres around the UK.
Visa applicants will first have to book individual appointments at one of the centres online. “Each family member has to lodge an individual application," said Darrren Bridges, director of visa agent Travcour. "There is no guarantee that the appointments will be one after the other, so you could have Dad, say, getting his at 9am; Mum getting hers at 10am and so on.”
His company, which arranges visa applications on behalf of tourists, only found out about the new rules yesterday.
“Depending on where you live it will be a nightmare,” he continued, explaining that, although more centres are due to open, only three currently exist. “They left it incredibly late to tell us.” The extra centres will be in cities including Cardiff, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool and Belfast. Full story...
Related posts:
No comments:
Post a Comment