[Inpycon] Conference visa requirements

[me kracekumar]

I remember Ashwan made research about this few months back, HasGeek
conference has few speakers flying down, probably it is good to ask Zainab
about this ?

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
> wrote:
> >
> > http://pmindiaun.org/visa_documents_required.html#conf
> >
> > 2 months notice just to apply so we need to worry about this early if
> > we're getting a foreign keynote speaker.
>
> Quoting it:
>
> ---
> Applicants for Conference Visa are required to provide the following
> documents :
>
> Invitation Letter from the Organizer.
> Event Clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
> Administrative approval of the Nodal Ministry.
> Political Clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs.
> Clearance from the State Government / UT concerned.
>
> In case of certain nationals clearance is required to be obtained from
> the concerned authorities before issuance of Conference Visas, which
> could take time.
> ---
>
> Isn't it insane to get approval from Ministry of Home Affairs and
> Ministry of External Affairs just to speak at a tech conference?
>
> Don't we have any better alternative?
>
> Anand
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