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Govt to further ease visa process: HM

 

By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, JULY 07, 2018: THE Union Home Minister, Mr Rajnath Singh, yesterday said that the Govt is keen to strengthen and smoothen the twin processes of Immigration and Visa for the Indian citizens and foreigners. He was addressing the Parliamentary Consultative Committee meeting on Immigration Visa Foreigners' Registration & Tracking (IVFRT) at Kochi in Kerala.

Underlining the importance of IVFRT, the Home Minister said that the MHA was implementing the project in mission mode. "We need to facilitate safe and convenient entry inside the country to legitimate international travellers. We also need to provide all Visa related and consular services to foreigners staying in India in a faster and convenient mode", he added.

"E-Visa scheme has become very popular among the foreigners. In 2015 the number of e-Visas issued was 5,17,417 which increased to 19,01,309 in 2017. This year till 5 th July 11,16,985 e-Visas have been issued", he said.

"This scheme ensures that the Foreigners do not have to meet any Indian official before their arrival at the designated landing port. MHA has now decided to increase the scope of this scheme to include e-Conference and e-Medical Attendant Visa also", the Home Minister added.

Giving the future projection of the e-Visa scheme, Mr Rajnath Singh said, "It is expected that in few years time the number of e-Visas issued by MHA's Bureau of Immigration (BoI) would overtake the number of regular visas issued by all the Indian Missions abroad."

"We are increasing the number of Departure and Arrival counters at major airports as well as providing Human Resource to the BoI to fast-track the immigration process", said Mr Rajnath Singh.

The IVFRT project has been implemented in 165 Indian Missions abroad and 91 Immigration Check Posts (ICPs) and Biometrics software installation in 132 Indian Missions has been done within the given time.

 


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