{"id":349879,"date":"2020-05-06T11:21:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349879"},"modified":"2020-05-06T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:30:10","slug":"govt-suspends-all-visas-bars-travel-by-oci-card-holders-till-ban-on-air-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-suspends-all-visas-bars-travel-by-oci-card-holders-till-ban-on-air-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt suspends all visas, bars travel by OCI card-holders till ban on air services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government Tuesday suspended all existing visas granted to foreign nationals, barring a few categories,  till international air travel to and from India remains shut due to the coronavirus pandemic, an order said.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate order, the Union Home Ministry also said it has extended on &#8216;gratis&#8217; basis the visas of foreigners stranded in India due the lockdown. The extension will be for a period of 30 days beyond opening of international travel in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also said it has kept in abeyance multiple-entry life-long visas given to Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) card holders till international travel remains suspended.<\/p>\n<p>However, the OCI card holders who are already in India can stay in the country for &#8220;any length of time&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government Tuesday suspended all existing visas granted to foreign nationals, barring a few categories, till international air travel to and from India remains shut due to the coronavirus pandemic, an order said. In a separate order, the Union Home Ministry also said it has extended on &#8216;gratis&#8217; basis the visas of foreigners stranded in India due the lockdown. The extension will be for a period of 30 days beyond opening of international travel in the country. The ministry also said it has kept in abeyance multiple-entry life-long visas given to Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) card holders till international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}