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What is going on with India's baffling visa forms?
The Independent
|November 29, 2025
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?
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