Asia Immigration News

France and Italy open a joint visa center in Kolkata May 15, 2014

France and Italy inaugurate a joint visa office in Kolkata

According to some news reports, France and Italy inaugurated a joint/combined visa application centre on Wednesday, 14th May, 2014, at the Rashbehari connector at Kasba. The consul generals of the two countries, France and Italy sought to draw the attention of and highlight their visa centre and schemes amongst the...

Pune gets a new system to keep track of expiry of foreigners' visas May 13, 2014

Pune puts in place a system to track expiry of foreigners’ visas

According to news reports, the FRO (Foreigner Registration Office) of Pune city, in India, has started a new â€˜online registration systemâ€™. This new scheme which was initiated at the beginning of this month (May), will send a communication which will either be an e-mail or SMS to the aliens living in the c...

Mongolian ambassador"s plea to South Korea to relax its visa rules May 12, 2014

Ambassador of Mongolia to South Korea pleads with it to relax its visa rules

According to some news reports, the Mongolian ambassador to South Korea has stated that the visa requirements for Korean tourist visa (for Mongolians) are very stringent. He was reported as saying that particularly, the â€˜bank balance requirementâ€™ which holds that a Mongolian tourist applicant who has no relat...

Myanmar and Indonesia sign an agreement for visa-free entry May 12, 2014

Myanmar and Indonesia have agreed upon visa-free entry

Myanmar and Indonesia have decided to and agreed upon visa-free entry and travel to the citizens or, passport holders of each other. The two countries signed the agreement to this effect on the sidelines of the ASEAN, which is at present going on in Nay Pyi Taw.The formal agreement document to this effect was signe...

US Consulate at Mumbai to celebrate May 28 as Student Visa Day May 10, 2014

US consulate to celebrate May 28 as Student Visa Day

The US consulate in Mumbai seeks to interview visa applicants numbering more than 1,000 on May 28 here, as a part of Student Visa Day celebrations, a consulate official stated on Tuesday. On that day, the US consulate has plans for and intends to exclusively open its doors for student applicants applying for F1 visas...

No change in family sponsorship minimum amount fee affirm officials May 07, 2014

Officials across the emirates confirm that there has been no change in fee rules for family sponsors

Amid reports that there have been changes in the fee for expatriates in applying for family sponsorship, it emerges that there have been no official changes to the rules regarding the residence visa procedures (more specifically, the applicable salary for the sponsor), at all.Thus, news reporters who queried immigr...

Visa-free entry for Filipinos to Japan under active consideration by the Japanese government May 06, 2014

The Japanese government is still carefully considering and evaluating a visa-free regime for Filipinos. But, it is likely that the evaluation could be completed within a year. According to the Philippinesâ€™ president of the senate, Franklin Drilon, the evaluation is still in the initial and preliminary stage and a d...

Myanmar to ease rules for providing visas to foreign journalists covering the ASEAN May 02, 2014

Myanmar to facilitate the entry of journalists who will provide coverage of the ASEAN

Myanmar's ministry of Information has announced on 1st May, 2014,Thursday that it will ease visa rules for those journalists coming from abroad to provide news coverage of the meeting of the ASEAN countries which is scheduled for the latter part of this month.According to the ministry, under the new rules regime, the...

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