The biggest hassle of travelling outside India is the visa formality. Nothing causes more shrudders to an avid traveller than understanding the complicated procedures each country has set for itself to allot visas.
I have attached a list where in all the visa formalities coupled with the documents required have been mentioned. The unfortunate part is that the visa procedure is ever evolving and hence there can never be a definitive list for it.
If any of you has travelled recently to the countries mentioned in the list and finds that the procedure and document requirement has changed ping me and I will get the same corrected. Also, if you are aware of the visa formalities of countries not mentioned in the list, then too ping me and I will have those updated.
Hope this helps a bit and makes travel little bit easier and simpler. So that you can now focus you time and energy on local travel, food, place to stay etc etc
13 Comments
Friday, July, 25, 2008 at 10:59 am
Hey Nimesh,
The link does not work here man…can we have the proper link. Thanks
Vishwas
Friday, July, 25, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Try again Vishwas. Sometimes the servers of the hosting site are under maintenance.
Friday, July, 25, 2008 at 8:23 pm
No way in hell did you compile this ; ) Having this information is great.. but, actually getting the visa is a nightmare. Trust me.. I am in the middle of this shit.
Friday, July, 25, 2008 at 8:53 pm
This is greast information to begin with and double check with our agents and other sources/sites. Will help make things more organised from our end atleast. The struggles will always be there.
Saturday, July, 26, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Aparna – Well there is only so much one can do about reducing headaches – wonder whether we will ever have a world without borders!!!
Sangeeta – May be we can make a wiki out of it so that people can update info as and when there is a change in the formality and procedure
Monday, July, 28, 2008 at 1:17 am
HI Nimesh,
Great List.. pretty handy for frequent travellers…
Came to your blog via linkedin… We are also in the social media space… though we focus more on the software and technical aspects.. Is it possible to meet and exchange some notes… we are also based at mumbai..
Thanks
-Ankit
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Monday, July, 28, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Hi Ankit,
Thanks. Have saved your contact details and have written to you on your gmail account.
Tuesday, July, 29, 2008 at 12:27 am
hey nimesh
this really helps!! cud make sense to have this “open” for modifications though…
no points for guessing ur love for travel,, so what have u planned for the 15th week??
Wednesday, July, 30, 2008 at 11:40 am
Hi Atibhi,
You are right. I am figuring out how it make a wiki out of this so that people can keep making changes as and when required. Do let me know if you aware of this process.
What abt the 15th week???
Thursday, August, 7, 2008 at 2:27 pm
i meant since u travel so much , what have u planned for the long weekend of 15th aug..
Thursday, August, 7, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I took notice of that long weekend only after you mentioned it and now I am tempted to plan something out. Goa maybe!!
Thursday, August, 21, 2008 at 1:48 pm
This is a terrific list. Of course if I were to get greedy, I would say advice on how much should be in the bank account, what are the key elements the authorities look for while granting/rejecting visa would all make this super-wonderful. Yeah, i know, wishful thinking of a greedy mind
Great job all the same.
Tushar
Thursday, August, 21, 2008 at 5:42 pm
If what you have suggested is carried out then it would defi be an ideal document to have along. But I guess that will need more collaboration