Asylum seekers’ spouses, wards can get Indian visas

Are wards or spouses of those who sought political asylum in western countries eligible to get visas to visit their relatives and friends in India?Until recently, there were reportedly unwritten instructions to all missions abroad that applications of such wards should not be entertained. But now, there is a change in the policy.

Kuljeet Kaur Chahal of the US, whose father had taken asylum in the US on the plea of political persecution back home, has been given a visa to visit India by the Indian Consulate-General in California.

“I have been raising the issue of ‘black list’ for a long time,” says Tarlochan Singh, MP, maintaining that he had been in regular correspondence with both the Home and External Affairs Ministries on the subject.

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