[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.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 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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