Your post makes sad reading, Mr de Sousa, but it leaves a crucial question
unanswered: What was the reason assigned to the denial of visa to you? You
say the Indian Consulate in Frankfurt repeatedly turned down your visa
applications and the Indian Embassy in Germany expressed inability to help
you. Why? Surely they must have cited some reason for it?
In 1995, you did make it to Dabolim but were not allowed to leave the
airport and put on the return flight to Germany though, according to you,
your papers were in order. What was the reason conveyed to you then? From
where did you obtain the visa then?
I'm sorry to say this, but it does seem like you're a 'persona non grata'.
What have you done to be blacklisted by the Indian Government? Did you carry
out any anti-India activity abroad, as Eric Pinto has hinted?
-- RKN
(Rodolfo de Sousa wrote: In 1995 I left Germany (where I'm residing since
1963)to visit my family in Goa, as is so usual for expats. But at the
Dabolim Airport I was stopped, checked and then put on the same plane and
packed off back to Germany. The immigration officer (Mr. Alan de Sa) found
nothing untoward with my self or my papers but he had to do his duty. Only a
Goan can imagine the pain this could bring, to see Goa right before your
eyes and then being stopped and then being told to go back to where you came
from. Try it!
Since then (1995) I've written nearly about 30 letters to all the higher-ups
from the President of India to Mr. Pratapsingh Rane the then, and present
Chief Minister of Goa, asking them what was the matter? ....
To get a balanced picture, however, it must be said that from the year 2000
I did manage to receive absolution and get temporary visas but only after
interminable delays & uncertainties.)
