[Inpycon] Conference visa requirements

[Palak Mathur]

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.

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On Feb 8, 2013 3:42 PM, "Kiran Jonnalagadda" <jace at 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 at kracekumar.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, me kracekumar <me at 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 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at 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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