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US tightens visa rules
Visa applicants at the American Embassy, New Delhi... More stringent rules on the cards?
TRAVELLING to the US may become more hassle-prone, if the rules proposed by the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service take effect. It has proposed tightening rules for businessmen, tourists and students.
Some of the notable proposals are:
The stay of tourists and business travellers is to be restricted to 30 days (now the period allowed is six months).
Any foreigner wanting to study in the US must have an approved student visa before taking courses.
Persons who want to switch visas from business and tourist category to `student' must return to the home country and make an application.
Visitors will have to show valid reasons to extend their visas, for instance, medical treatment.
The period of maximum extension of visa has been cut from one year to six months.
These visa-tightening proposals come in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attack.
BL Research Bureau
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