India overhauls visa system: tourist visa becomes Visitor Visa, categories cut to nine, forms 70% leaner

India has reorganised its visa regime, merging similar travel purposes into fewer categories, renaming the tourist visa and sharply cutting the information applicants have to provide. The Home Ministry says the changes are meant to bring more tourists, medical travellers and foreign students to the country. The overhaul follows two Home Ministry decisions taken over […] The post India overhauls visa system: tourist visa becomes Visitor Visa, categories cut to nine, forms 70% leaner appeared firs

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