Hi LonelyPlaneteers,
I am due to travel to India in 5 days for business. I recently have granted evisa last 20th Apr and it should be valid until 20th Apr 2020 . Now I have applied a new evisa and got rejected due to redundancy.
Wiill this rejection impact the previously granted Visa? I am afraid to face any hassle during the flight and in India so looking at going to India embassy tomorrow but was hoping I can get some opinion from other member previous experience
Hi dear travellers!
I'm organizing an overland trip through South and East Asia. I'll start off flying from Italy (my native country) to Islamabad, my aim is to arrive in Indonesia overland crossing: Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia.
Following some research, I gather this is feasible because all borders are currently open and crossable overland by foreigners. Can you confirm this is the case? Does anybody have relevant experience to share?
Concerning Visas, I've read that Pakistan and India do issue tourist visas even in absence of round-trip flights (normally required) if entrance and exit are overland. Can you confirm it's the case? Do you know if in this case they require supplementary documentation to prove you are actually leaving the country (i.e. visa of the neighbouring country)?
Concerning the tourist visa to Myanmar, I've read this has an overall validity of 90 days and it allows a 28 days stay from the day of entrance into the country. Given these time constraints, do you know if I can obtain this visa at the Burmese Consulate in Kolkata (India)? Or can I obtain it through the e-system while I'm in India? Considering I want to exit India overland, if Indian authorities require a valid Burmese visa to grant me the Indian tourist visa (as a substitute for plane tickets which I won't have), I may be bound to obtain the Burmese visa before departure. Any advice on this?
As far as I know, for the following countries on my path - Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia - I can obtain a visa upon arrival even at overland borders, so there should be no paperwork to do before departure and everything should go smoothly. Can you confirm this is the case?
Any comments, inputs and advice is veeery welcome! Thank you all in advance ;)
Cesare
I'd like to reach India overland through the Wagah-Attari crossing.>
Neither way is a problem for visas from India. The kick is that its better for the show from the Pakistani side but you lose a day due to the shutting of the border. Make do with the show on the Indian side. The real issue may be with the airlines if you were flying into India, don't know about Pakistan. Still, if you have the visa papers and the itinerary you can talk your way through it..
Ah, I missed that section on non-Tamil Indian languages. It seems like it's not any Indian language, but a specific 5 - Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi. Those languages are certainly treated differently to Chinese.
Some of it might be the "all Chinese languages are dialects" mentality. Also perhaps the official status that the Indian languages have? Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi all have standard written forms, and are used officially in Bengal, Gujarat, the Punjab, Pakistan, and much of India, say. Whereas Chinese "dialects" don't have official status within China, and only Cantonese, Hokkien/Taiwanese, and Hakka have official status in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Languages like Teochew and Hainanese are not officially recognized anywhere.
Or it's just that the government wants to promote a single language to unite the predominant Chinese community, but doesn't care what the much smaller minority Indians get up to.
