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visum controls in India?
Aldo
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Hippo HoorayRegistered User regular
Hey H/A,
I'm heading to India for research and an internship. I have been adviced by my supervisor at the university, employees at the organisation and basically everyone else I have ever talked to told me to request a tourist visum instead of a research or work visum. Reason is simple: the Indians are insane with their visa, they tend to simply refuse to give out visa to students who are going to India for research or to work at an aid organisation. Literally no one has told me to play by the rules.
However, what if they're going to do a background check on me? They'll easily find out my address in India (with the organisation), my bank account will show transfers to that organisation and it's not like I've kept the goal of my trip a state secret, all my family and friends know what I'll be doing.
Has anyone here ever been to India? Or to other developing countries with a tourist visum? What have been your experiences?
I must stress again that playing by the retarded Indian rules is not a viable alternative: people with decades of experience in this work have told me in function that I should absolutely not request a work or research visum. So don't even bother suggesting that, I can't do that.
I'm heading to India for research and an internship. I have been adviced by my supervisor at the university, employees at the organisation and basically everyone else I have ever talked to told me to request a tourist visum instead of a research or work visum. Reason is simple: the Indians are insane with their visa, they tend to simply refuse to give out visa to students who are going to India for research or to work at an aid organisation. Literally no one has told me to play by the rules.
However, what if they're going to do a background check on me? They'll easily find out my address in India (with the organisation), my bank account will show transfers to that organisation and it's not like I've kept the goal of my trip a state secret, all my family and friends know what I'll be doing.
Has anyone here ever been to India? Or to other developing countries with a tourist visum? What have been your experiences?
I must stress again that playing by the retarded Indian rules is not a viable alternative: people with decades of experience in this work have told me in function that I should absolutely not request a work or research visum. So don't even bother suggesting that, I can't do that.
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I went a few years ago on a non-tourist visa and spend literally days playing silly buggers with registering etc, before finally having enough and just ignoring all the rules until I flew home.