A family was divided the other day because the husband had a business visa and the wife and children had tourism visas. The wife and children were on the next plane back to the states, the husband was allowed to continue with his business in India. Hundreds of folks had their visa stamped with “NO REENTRY” upon their most recent arrival in India. One guy got lippy with a govt. official about the visa rule changes and his visa was actually torn from his passport!
Is it all true? That’s the thing about India…”Someone once said that whatever you say about India, the opposite is also true. Indian systems of thought can handle this kind of paradox. One philosophical argument for each apparent contradictions uses the simple illustration of a room. To a person who enters the room after a winter’s walk, the room is warm. To the person who has been sitting there all day, it is not warm. So the room is warm; the room is not warm; the room is at the same time warm and not warm; and the real nature of the room remains undescribed by any of these standards.” Culture Shock India.
Noteables:
- Because of Indian visa rule changes we must now apply for Employment Visas (costly and time consuming – visa processing 5 days - we depart in 20).
- Our home continues to stay on the market, but we are trusting that it will be rented prior to our departur
- We continue to proceed by faith that everything will work out prior to our departure and we will be able to depart on time.
Visa processing.
Employment visas require over 12 items of documentation. Crazy!
