the two month rule is not been implemented yet, if ever

I just got my visa from the Edinburgh vfs - and they have now started actually printing the two month rule wording on the visa itself in large text.
Also I was warned twice about it verbally, first when applying, and second when collecting.
It does appear that they are serious about this. Seems crazy - it's certainly killed off my idea about going out later this year for a second trip.

Killed off my idea too Thailand here we come

just had my form sent back telling me i have to go in person.
also they have changed the form on the vfs website,you now need photos

http://in.vfsglobal.co.uk/notices.aspx

We were intending to pick up either a flight only or package, leaving it till the last few days for early in Feb. As we only left on 15th Dec. it looks as if that idea has now been knocked on the head. The cost of getting the initial visa was bad enough, but to carry on filling in the new form now, and the hassle of going back to the visa office in Edinburgh in person, is one hassle too many I'm afraid. We'd only have been going anyway if the price was right, and getting any deal at the last minute makes it impossible to get the new permission in time. So another own goal for India and their tourism. Just as well the local tourism is growing every year, as they seem determined to damage their foreign tourism at every turn. Poor old Goa
Alan

Started online visa application and got to the page where they asked if I wanted to add another relative and I said no and now I cannot get back in to print form. At no time did I see a web reference number which I apparently need to reenter the site. I have emailed the visa office address on their Frequently Asked Questions page. Does anyone know how long it will take them to get back to me?

Fed up why does it have to be so difficult?

Hi, ron_watford,
We are in the same position as you we have already booked for February,we will have been away from goa for 7 weeks . I wanted to take a chance and just go but I have heard a French couple and an English family with 2 children have been deported already on this new ruling.
I am really sorry that I have booked this second trip now ( we have been going twice and sometimes 3 times on our visas since 1995) It does not seem fair to change the rules half way through the season, so did they tell you to book an appointment ? it will be difficult for me to take a day of work and travel to Birmingham and then BEG? for my holiday in Goa , I feel like telling them to stuff it and we will go somewhere we will be welcomed but how would we stand compensation wise, does anyone have an answer? as I said we had already booked this trip before the new ruling came out.
So do I make an appointment lose a days pay, do both of us have to go ? £50 in petrol £14 if accepted it really is getting beyond a joke even for Goa !
scorpion.
I think it is time we finally moved on, the world is a big place !!!!!!!!!!!!
and some of it is CLEAN.

still no visa according to the track yr passport thingy on the website unless I am looking at the wrong thing . I went up 7th jan and its still not ready to collect . I fly out 28th jan and I am worried now

I don't think the ref no. comes up till the end.Maybe u didn,t wait long enough when not adding others I have spent whole nights trying to do these forms,then everything dissapears (yes next year it'll b a piece of )no itwas exactly the same this year.
Do u think it,s the Agony in the build up :or the ecstacy ::when there
Take a deep breath and maybe start again :

It looks like the NEW visa rules will be applied from now on at Dabolim.In the Herald today http://oheraldo.in/news/Main%20Page%20News/State-gearing-to-implement-new-visa-guidelines/32414.html

John

My sympathy to Scorpion and many more in the same position who booked more than one visit on the multiple visa before the rule change. It's an interesting point re the compensation aspect. I'm sure there is an auful lot of grief ahead for many people who are in the position of having booked more than one visit on the strength of the multiple visit tourist visa, and who are'nt it touch with the likes of this forum, to alert them of the fact of the rule change. Even by Indian standards this is shocking, putting many people in the dreadfull position of either turning up at an U.K. airport and being turned away, or arriving atan Indian one and being refused entrance.
Alan

http://oheraldo.in/news/Main%20Page%20News/State-gearing-to-implement-new-visa-guidelines/32414.html

Just hope to many people do not get caught up in this.

I can't see that making it difficult for tourists to come and go will go far to combat terrorism.

If I wanted to cause havoc and blow some things up, using illegal firearms and explosives, I could probably get a false passport and visa!

A lot of people visit several times in one season. More visa gaps = fewer holidays = less income.

Perhaps the Mods could merge this with the" New two month visa rule " as they are covering the same topic ?
Alan

Merged

Kath x

Herald-Visa

went to the high commission in london today.
got there about 6.30 am(i remember getting visas from there lol) about 12 people in front of me.
they all appeared to be of indian origin so were not there for the same reason as me
they give out the numbers ( a raffle ticket for return tourists) as usual at 8.30am but now you do not go into the buiding untill 9.15am so you have to que again.
by 8.30 there was loads of people queing
i in fact was told by the women at the counter to come back at 10 after i had got my raffle ticket but i qued and got in but had to wait.
10.30 am is when they deal with the returning tourists.you are called upstairs in small groups and then you go in one by one to have a bit of a chat
think ill be ok cause theyve kept my passport and money lol though i did get questioned as my visa has come from the birmingham consulate and he asked me why i was in london.long story
another thing they take only cash at the london high commission and not postal orders like it says on the vfs website

forgot to say they ring you in a few days when your passports ready (they stamp a special permission statement in your passport) and then you have to troop back to the high commission

Thanks for the update ron, I was hoping to go to birmingham as that is where we got our visas from............I have tried upteen times over the last 2 days and no-one ever answer the b*&%^(y phone....... and then after taking time off work and driving to Birmingham having to then return a few days later to collect the passport this seems so so stupid.

My hubby is not impressed by this and I have a feeling he will say sod it we will just go to airport

Like members have already said on here and trip advisor what if you dont have excess to a computer........my travel agent (who i booked my first flight and my 2nd holiday) havent been in touch. We arent due to travel til mid feb maybe by then more info will be available.

Regards Jules