http://pmindiaun.org/visa_documents_required.html#conf 2 months notice just to apply so we need to worry about this early if we're getting a foreign keynote speaker. -- Cordially, Noufal http://nibrahim.net.in
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
http://pmindiaun.org/visa_documents_required.html#conf
2 months notice just to apply so we need to worry about this early if we're getting a foreign keynote speaker.
Quoting it: --- Applicants for Conference Visa are required to provide the following documents : Invitation Letter from the Organizer. Event Clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Administrative approval of the Nodal Ministry. Political Clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs. Clearance from the State Government / UT concerned. In case of certain nationals clearance is required to be obtained from the concerned authorities before issuance of Conference Visas, which could take time. --- Isn't it insane to get approval from Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs just to speak at a tech conference? Don't we have any better alternative? Anand
I remember Ashwan made research about this few months back, HasGeek conference has few speakers flying down, probably it is good to ask Zainab about this ? On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
http://pmindiaun.org/visa_documents_required.html#conf
2 months notice just to apply so we need to worry about this early if we're getting a foreign keynote speaker.
Quoting it:
--- Applicants for Conference Visa are required to provide the following documents :
Invitation Letter from the Organizer. Event Clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Administrative approval of the Nodal Ministry. Political Clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs. Clearance from the State Government / UT concerned.
In case of certain nationals clearance is required to be obtained from the concerned authorities before issuance of Conference Visas, which could take time. ---
Isn't it insane to get approval from Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs just to speak at a tech conference?
Don't we have any better alternative?
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On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com> wrote:
I remember Ashwan made research about this few months back, HasGeek conference has few speakers flying down, probably it is good to ask Zainab about this ?
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
http://pmindiaun.org/visa_documents_required.html#conf
2 months notice just to apply so we need to worry about this early if we're getting a foreign keynote speaker.
Quoting it:
--- Applicants for Conference Visa are required to provide the following documents :
Invitation Letter from the Organizer. Event Clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Administrative approval of the Nodal Ministry. Political Clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs. Clearance from the State Government / UT concerned.
In case of certain nationals clearance is required to be obtained from the concerned authorities before issuance of Conference Visas, which could take time. ---
Isn't it insane to get approval from Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs just to speak at a tech conference?
Don't we have any better alternative?
Sorry, seems this is new rule.
Anand
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Read this FAQ on MHA's website: http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FAQs-on-ConferenceVisa.pdf Regards, Palak Mathur http://palakmathur.in <http://palakmathur.github.com/> http://aatmiyata.wordpress.com http://palakclicks.wordpress.com On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:01 PM, me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com> wrote:
I remember Ashwan made research about this few months back, HasGeek conference has few speakers flying down, probably it is good to ask Zainab about this ?
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
http://pmindiaun.org/visa_documents_required.html#conf
2 months notice just to apply so we need to worry about this early if we're getting a foreign keynote speaker.
Quoting it:
--- Applicants for Conference Visa are required to provide the following documents :
Invitation Letter from the Organizer. Event Clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Administrative approval of the Nodal Ministry. Political Clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs. Clearance from the State Government / UT concerned.
In case of certain nationals clearance is required to be obtained from the concerned authorities before issuance of Conference Visas, which could take time. ---
Isn't it insane to get approval from Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs just to speak at a tech conference?
Don't we have any better alternative?
Sorry, seems this is new rule.
Anand
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From the FAQ:
Indian Missions are authorized to issue Conference visas to delegates on production of an invitation to a conference/seminar/workshop being organized in India by a Ministry or Department of the Government of India, State Governments or UT Administrations, Public Sector Undertakings, Central Educational Institutions, Public Funded Universities (list of such institutions are available on the website www.education.nic.in and the websites of the University Grants Commission and Association of Indian Universities), or an organization owned and controlled by the Government of India or any State Government / UT, United Nations or its specialized agencies. PyCon does not fall under any of these categories and therefore conference visas are not required. Regular tourist or business visas are sufficient. If you are working with any agency that falls in the above categories, please ensure they do not send an invite to the speaker. This is what got us into trouble yesterday -- fixed at the last minute by sending a new invite while the speaker was in queue at the embassy. Kiran -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/ http://hasgeek.com/ On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 7:35 PM, Palak Mathur wrote:
Read this FAQ on MHA's website: http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FAQs-on-ConferenceVisa.pdf
Regards, Palak Mathur http://palakmathur.in (http://palakmathur.github.com/) http://aatmiyata.wordpress.com http://palakclicks.wordpress.com
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:01 PM, me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com (mailto:me@kracekumar.com)> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com (mailto:me@kracekumar.com)> wrote:
I remember Ashwan made research about this few months back, HasGeek conference has few speakers flying down, probably it is good to ask Zainab about this ?
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com (mailto:anandology@gmail.com)> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in (mailto:noufal@nibrahim.net.in)> wrote:
http://pmindiaun.org/visa_documents_required.html#conf
2 months notice just to apply so we need to worry about this early if we're getting a foreign keynote speaker.
Quoting it:
--- Applicants for Conference Visa are required to provide the following documents :
Invitation Letter from the Organizer. Event Clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Administrative approval of the Nodal Ministry. Political Clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs. Clearance from the State Government / UT concerned.
In case of certain nationals clearance is required to be obtained from the concerned authorities before issuance of Conference Visas, which could take time. ---
Isn't it insane to get approval from Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs just to speak at a tech conference?
Don't we have any better alternative?
Sorry, seems this is new rule.
Anand _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org (mailto:Inpycon@python.org) http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace@pobox.com> wrote:
From the FAQ:
Indian Missions are authorized to issue Conference visas to delegates on production of an invitation to a conference/seminar/workshop being organized in India by a Ministry or Department of the Government of India, State Governments or UT Administrations, Public Sector Undertakings, Central Educational Institutions, Public Funded Universities (list of such institutions are available on the website www.education.nic.in and the websites of the University Grants Commission and Association of Indian Universities), or an organization owned and controlled by the Government of India or any State Government / UT, United Nations or its specialized agencies.
PyCon does not fall under any of these categories and therefore conference visas are not required. Regular tourist or business visas are sufficient.
If you are working with any agency that falls in the above categories, please ensure they do not send an invite to the speaker. This is what got us into trouble yesterday -- fixed at the last minute by sending a new invite while the speaker was in queue at the embassy.
That section was followed by: (ii) If the conference/ seminar/ workshop is sponsored by an NGO or a private institution, the Mission should scrutinize the background of the NGO/private institution and grant visa to the participants except in cases indicated in sub-para (iii) below. It clearly indicate that PyCon falls into this category. And section (iii) is for people coming from Afghanistan, China, Iran, Pakistan etc. and that requires additional clearance from Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs. We don't have to worry about this. Anand
Not tourist Visas. Business Visas. Using tourist Visa for attending conferences/seminars, in my opinion, will breach the laws. Let us consult some lawyer regarding this who can give us correct stand of the law. Sent via Samsung Galaxy S II On Feb 8, 2013 3:42 PM, "Kiran Jonnalagadda" <jace@pobox.com> wrote:
From the FAQ:
Indian Missions are authorized to issue Conference visas to delegates on production of an invitation to a conference/seminar/workshop being organized in India by a Ministry or Department of the Government of India, State Governments or UT Administrations, Public Sector Undertakings, Central Educational Institutions, Public Funded Universities (list of such institutions are available on the website www.education.nic.in and the websites of the University Grants Commission and Association of Indian Universities), or an organization owned and controlled by the Government of India or any State Government / UT, United Nations or its specialized agencies.
PyCon does not fall under any of these categories and therefore conference visas are not required. Regular tourist or business visas are sufficient.
If you are working with any agency that falls in the above categories, please ensure they do not send an invite to the speaker. This is what got us into trouble yesterday -- fixed at the last minute by sending a new invite while the speaker was in queue at the embassy.
Kiran
-- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/ http://hasgeek.com/
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 7:35 PM, Palak Mathur wrote:
Read this FAQ on MHA's website: http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FAQs-on-ConferenceVisa.pdf
Regards, Palak Mathur http://palakmathur.in <http://palakmathur.github.com/> http://aatmiyata.wordpress.com http://palakclicks.wordpress.com
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:01 PM, me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com> wrote:
I remember Ashwan made research about this few months back, HasGeek conference has few speakers flying down, probably it is good to ask Zainab about this ?
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
http://pmindiaun.org/visa_documents_required.html#conf
2 months notice just to apply so we need to worry about this early if we're getting a foreign keynote speaker.
Quoting it:
--- Applicants for Conference Visa are required to provide the following documents :
Invitation Letter from the Organizer. Event Clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Administrative approval of the Nodal Ministry. Political Clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs. Clearance from the State Government / UT concerned.
In case of certain nationals clearance is required to be obtained from the concerned authorities before issuance of Conference Visas, which could take time. ---
Isn't it insane to get approval from Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs just to speak at a tech conference?
Don't we have any better alternative?
Sorry, seems this is new rule.
Anand _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
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Not tourist Visas. Business Visas. Using tourist Visa for attending conferences/seminars, in my opinion, will breach the laws. Let us consult some lawyer regarding this who can give us correct stand of the law. Sent via Samsung Galaxy S II On Feb 8, 2013 3:42 PM, "Kiran Jonnalagadda" <jace@pobox.com> wrote:
From the FAQ:
Indian Missions are authorized to issue Conference visas to delegates on production of an invitation to a conference/seminar/workshop being organized in India by a Ministry or Department of the Government of India, State Governments or UT Administrations, Public Sector Undertakings, Central Educational Institutions, Public Funded Universities (list of such institutions are available on the website www.education.nic.inand the websites of the University Grants Commission and Association of Indian Universities), or an organization owned and controlled by the Government of India or any State Government / UT, United Nations or its specialized agencies. PyCon does not fall under any of these categories and therefore conference visas are not required. Regular tourist or business visas are sufficient. If you are working with any agency that falls in the above categories, please ensure they do not send an invite to the speaker. This is what got us into trouble yesterday -- fixed at the last minute by sending a new invite while the speaker was in queue at the embassy. Kiran -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/ http://hasgeek.com/ On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 7:35 PM, Palak Mathur wrote: Read this FAQ on MHA's website: http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/FAQs-on-ConferenceVisa.pdf Regards, Palak Mathur http://palakmathur.in <http://palakmathur.github.com/> http://aatmiyata.wordpress.com http://palakclicks.wordpress.com On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:01 PM, me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com> wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, me kracekumar <me@kracekumar.com> wrote: I remember Ashwan made research about this few months back, HasGeek conference has few speakers flying down, probably it is good to ask Zainab about this ? On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology@gmail.com>wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@nibrahim.net.in> wrote:
http://pmindiaun.org/visa_documents_required.html#conf
2 months notice just to apply so we need to worry about this early if we're getting a foreign keynote speaker.
Quoting it: --- Applicants for Conference Visa are required to provide the following documents : Invitation Letter from the Organizer. Event Clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Administrative approval of the Nodal Ministry. Political Clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs. Clearance from the State Government / UT concerned. In case of certain nationals clearance is required to be obtained from the concerned authorities before issuance of Conference Visas, which could take time. --- Isn't it insane to get approval from Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs just to speak at a tech conference? Don't we have any better alternative? Sorry, seems this is new rule. Anand _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon _______________________________________________ Inpycon mailing list Inpycon@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/inpycon
On Sunday, 10 February 2013 at 12:23 AM, Palak Mathur wrote:
Not tourist Visas. Business Visas. Using tourist Visa for attending conferences/seminars, in my opinion, will breach the laws. Let us consult some lawyer regarding this who can give us correct stand of the law.
So it's illegal for a tourist to walk into an interesting event that they happened to hear about on their trip? That doesn't sound right. A business visa is required when there's a business angle -- such as a local entity reimbursing for travel and stay. Else a tourist visa will work fine. Kiran
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