Hi Fred:
Do you have any contacts with high Indian Government officials? A
friend of mine and I were born in Karachi but no longer have any
connections there, are Roman Catholics (not Muslims), I have been away
from Karachi for 51 years and my friend some 20 years but, despite this,
supposedly, our applications for Indian visas were sent to India for
processing. We have travelled to Goa a number of times, starting in
2003 for the exposition of St. Francis Xavier's body. Since we were
born in Pakistan, we were being given just 3 months visas and the
effective date of the visa was from the date it was stamped on our
passports (we both have Canadian passports). Hence, we tried to send
the passports as close to departure date as possible. We also booked
our flights in October for departure Jan.4 to take advantage of cheaper
fares. Although our money was taken for the visas, our passports were
returned with the comment "visas not issued" and have heard nothing
further since.
God Bless.
Philip.
