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edwardseco
As a foreigner you can't stay in India for more than 6 months in any given year. A visa run won't fix that problem. >
Where does this come from? My visas always say, at a time. In fact I knew a commentator here on the same visa that did visa runs to stay longer. Its true that sometimes they warn people on 6 monthers that they might look askance at the next visa run. Never heard of anyone actually being hassled though..
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6345789
I have several friends that leave india every 6 months, either to `Nepal, Thailand or back to UK and then get a new visa usually within a few says, or if in the UK they stay a couple of weeks.
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lifesupport
Where does this come from?
Good get. I has missed that entirely and I'm sure it's a simple mistake on mstep's part.
The OP is a US citizen, presumably on a multi-year multi-entry visa for 180 days stay at a time. All of which is moot if she is marries during her 'first' 180 days this year.
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6345789
± 7. "Partially correct. As a foreigner you can't stay in India for more than 6 months in any given year. A visa run won't fix that problem. Not sure if marrying an Indian citizen makes a difference on that rule"
Not true, as i have said before many people leave after 6 months get a new visa and then return for another 6 months, it has been happening for years.
They did attempt to change the rules a couple of years ago and there had to be a 2 month gap between visas but they rescinded that rule.
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rchoepel260606
The visa run had already been suggested in # 4 , when it was rejected:
Unless I’m mistaken the visas for US citizens means six months stay per calendar year. So this would involve a visa run.
Partially correct. As a foreigner you can't stay in India for more than 6 months in any given year. A visa run won't fix that problem.>
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lifesupport
The key point is - and this only matters to other readers - is that the stay in India is not limited to 6 months in a calendar year. For the Yanks, Brits, and Canucks (and possibly some others) it is 180 days per entry. With a multi-year, multi-entry visa all that is required is a couple of days out of the country, before entering for another 180.
a 2 month gap between visas but they rescinded that rule.
For the sake of completeness for other readers, the 2 months out rule still applies to nationals of Afghanistan, China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan, Maldives, foreigners of Pakistani origin and stateless persons.
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