The government today made it clear that people travelling to China with visas stapled to their passports will not be able to travel out of the country as this type of visa will not be considered valid. According to an Advisory issued by the ministry of external affairs in New Delhi, all Indian citizens travelling to China have been advised that before making any travel arrangements they should ascertain from the Chinese embassy whether their visas will be affixed to their passport or they will be stapled paper visas. The ministry said that the advisory has been issued so that the people travelling to china are not put to inconvenience or suffer any financial loss. The advisory says that the Chinese embassy in Delhi and its consulates in Mumba and Kolkata have been issuing visas on a separate piece of paper stapled to the passport to the certain categories of Indian nationals on the basis of their domicile, ethnicity or place of issue of the passport.<br/>
News On AIR | November 12, 2009 10:42 PM
China’s stapled visas policy invalid: India