New Delhi, November 12: In a rebuff to China, India today made it clear that any paper visa “stapled” to the passport in separate sheets rather than pasted will be treated as invalid for travel out of the country.
“It has come to the attention of the government that the Chinese Embassy here and its Consulates in Mumbai and Kolkata are issuing visas on a separate piece of paper stapled to the passport (rather than “pasted” as is the usual practice), to certain categories of Indian nationals on the basis of their domicile, ethnicity and/or place of issue of the passport.
“Such paper visas stapled to the passport are not considered valid for travel out of the country,” Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement here.
–Agencies