Asia Immigration News

Malaysian applicants for visas to India need not submit their biometric information for now April 29, 2014

Biometric information from Malaysian applicants of Indian visas put off

The Indian High Commission has taken a decision to further put off to a later date the introduction of biometric visa requirements for Malaysians. The introduction/implementation of the biometric system would now be pushed further to the end of May, 2014. This decision was taken after due deliberations by the India...

Philippines BI approves plan for eliminating notarization for BI applications and letter requests April 29, 2014

Philippines BI adopts policy not to necessitate BI applications and letter requests to be notarized

Philippines Bureau of Immigration (BI) has agreed for another plan to simplify the transactions and reduce the cost for foreigners by eliminating the necessity of notarizing some of the immigration documents.Siegfred B. Mison, Immigration commissioner has told that all letter requests and the applications that ar...

Philippines set to start online visa application for Taiwanese April 28, 2014

Philippines is ready to start online visa application system by the end of this year for the nationals of Taiwan to make the visa procedure more simple and convenient, according to Antonio Basilio, Philippines’ representative to Taiwan.He said that The ‘Manila Economic and Cultural Office’ is presently find...

India makes visa process easy for Chinese visitors April 27, 2014

Ashok K Kantha, Indian Ambassador to China has said that India has structured the visa policy in an efficient way, such that the tourist and the business visa will be processed in 2 days, without any extra charge to encourage the visitors from China.In 2012, more than 6 lakh Indian visitors had visited China, whi...

Philippines to grant visa-free entry for 30 days to the citizens of seven Central Asian countries April 27, 2014

Philippines grants visa-free entry for a 30-day stay to the citizens of seven more countries

The Philippines government has made an announcement through an advisory issued by the Consulate General of Philippines in Dubai, granting visa-free travel for a 30-day stay to the citizens of seven more countries. These countries are the central Asian countires of , Turkmenistan, Kyrgyztan, Tajikistan, and Uzbe...

Outbound tourism from China leads to changes in visa issuance rules in some countries April 27, 2014

Chinese tourists lead the way in visiting and travelling to other countries

Tourism and related subject experts opine that countries, including leading western countries such as USA, UK, etc. are easing their visa norms, rules, etc., especially the visitor visa rules, regulations, etc. to attract more Chinese (and citizens of some other nations, too) into their countries. They are pointing ...

E-visa to travel to Turkey for some nationals of Philippines April 25, 2014

The Bureau of Immigration, Phillipines, has made an announcement regarding travel to Turkey. This is that Philippine nationals who have ordinary passports and also a valid visa or residence permit of any one of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), or Schengen countries can file an appli...

India set to open seven additional visa processing centres across Malaysia April 25, 2014

The Indian High commission has introduced a new rule which necessitates every visa applicant to visit the visa processing centre for Biometric enrolment. Any other representatives or travel agents are not authorized to submit the applications in the interest of the visa applicant.This new system has been in implement...

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