10.8.13

More Airports to get VoA

Tourists from 11 countries can now avail of visa-on-arrival (VoA) facility at four additional airports in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. The Union home ministry has approved introduction of the tourist VoA facility at these airports with effect from August 15, according to minister of state for home Mullapally Ramachandran.
So far, the tourists could get visa-on-arrival only upon disembarking at international airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. This facility — now available to the nationals of New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Finland, Luxembourg, the Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia and Myanmar -- was introduced by the MHA in 2009. 

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