Asia Immigration News

Online visit visas for overseas families soon January 16, 2015

New Electronic visit visa facility for expat families

Interior ministry of Saudi Arabia has planned to offer online visit visa facilities to expat families arriving in the nation without putting them through much efforts. Individuals can now enter the Kingdom without obtaining the permit from foreign affairs ministry or passport department.Few of the existing sources of t...

Surge in number of Israelis giving up their citizenship January 05, 2015

Increase in giving up count of overseas nationals for Israel citizenship

As per the new year-end records of the country, it was found that there is a steady surge in giving up of passports of citizens of the country to 65 percent during 2014. According to the Administration of Border Crossings, Population, and Immigration and Israeli embassies abroad, around 765 applicants have made ...

Electronic Travel Authorisation did wonders by processing 22,000 visas January 02, 2015

Online visa facility surged the tourists' flow to the country

Within a single month of launch of visa-on-arrival facility by the ETA (Electronic Travel Authorisation), it has attained a good reputation in the global market. Since its inception its existing government has handled visas of around 22,000 during November month compared to January to November month’s figure of 2...

New Indian Visa Application Centre in Dhanmondi January 01, 2015

New IVAC Centre to be launched in Dhanmondi

Dhaka’s Indian High Commission is about to launch the new IVAC (Indian Visa Application Centre) at Dhanmondi on Friday.SBI, one of the certified representatives of Indian High Commission has accepted to obtain and deliver visa applications through Indian Visa Application Centre to proffer better visa services to indi...

Vietnam to extend visa and residency norms for foreigners January 01, 2015

Vietnam to extend visa and residency regulations for overseas citizens

Vietnam is planning to issue residency cards and five year visas from the first month of 2015 year. Previously, overseas investors used to attain resident cards and one year visas that were applicable for three years. The existing government of the country is also wishing to extend the visa count which the country usua...

Relaxing Visa policy attracts highest number of tourists December 31, 2014

Streamlining Visa policy entices overseas travelers

The introduction of visa-on-arrival facility enabled electronic travel authorization (ETA) for 43 nations. In addition to ETA, the ministry has introduced welcome cards for overseas visitors and started a long-awaited tourist helpline.With the initiation of ETA for countries such as Germany, US, Israel and Russia aroun...

New contract to BLS International for outsourcing of visas and passports December 30, 2014

BLS international has been allotted the contact again for outsourcing services

A trusted partner to the Indian embassy in Oman, BLS International LLC has been allotted a contract for redistribution of visas, offering of attestation services and granting of passport from 1 January 2015 in the favor of the Indian Embassy of Muscat, according to a press release.All Omani citizens and the Indian nati...

Family visit visa 'confined to six months' December 27, 2014

Family visit visa 'confined to 180 days'

Official spokesman of Jeddah passport division recently announced new norms for overseas visitors arriving to the region through visitor visas. As per the new norms, individuals arriving to the nation can stay in the country for six months, which is to a maximum period of 180 days. The stay duration starts from the ...

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