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What is going on with India's baffling visa forms?
November 29, 2025
|The Independent
We are off to India in a few weeks.
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We tried to apply for our visas online. The form is very user-unfriendly and almost impossible to complete. We ended up paying £100 each to a company who offer the service of completing applications. They only required a fraction of the information required on the form we tried to complete. Yet hey presto: two days later our visas have arrived. What is going on here?
هذه القصة من طبعة November 29, 2025 من The Independent.
اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.
هل أنت مشترك بالفعل؟ تسجيل الدخول
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