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| Travel to India Passport Warning |
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| jannah |
| 07/19/03 at 04:09:01 |
| [slm] There's a lot of precautions one should take when traveling these days. Here's another... caveat for travelers... never let you and your passport get separated... oh yeah also make sure you have all the right visas and have inquired about them thoroughly... before you start travel... i was stuck at one point and couldn't go anywhere from a foreign country because they kept giving me the run around about getting a multiple entry visa! and i knew a whole pakistani family who went to pakistan, landed but weren't allowed in and had to come all the way back! long story that one! ........................................................................... This is an well-organised conspiracy by Indian immigration, Police, Customs and Air India staff with Networking at all the Indian International Airports. Be watchful whenever you give your passport to Immigration/Customs/Air India staff. The passport can be easily tampered and can create trouble to you. Our officials have found easy way of making money from NRIs. This is the way it works. At the time of the passenger's departure, if the passenger is not looking at the officer while he is stamping the exit, the officer very cleverly tears away one of the page from the passport. When the passenger leaves the immigration counter, the case is reported on his computer terminal with full details. Now all over India they have got full details of the passenger with Red Flag flashing on the Pass port number entered by the departure immigration officer. They have made their money by doing above. On arrival next time, he is interrogated. Subject to the passenger's period of stay abroad, his income and standing etc., the price to get rid of the problem is settled by the Police and Immigration people. If someone argues, his future is spoiled because there are always some innocent fellows who think the honesty is the basis of getting justice in India. Please advise every passenger to be careful at the airport. Whenever they hand over the passport to the counters of Air India, or immigration or the customs, they must be vigilant, should not remove eyes from the passport even if the officer in front tries to divert their attention. Also, please pass this information to all friends, media men and important politicians. Every month 20-30 cases are happening all over India to rob the NRIs the minute he lands. Similar case has happened with Aramco's Arifuddin. He was travelling with his family. They had six passports. They got the visa of America and decided to go via Hyderabad from Jeddah. They reached Hyd. Stayed about a month and left for States. When they reached States, the page of the American visa on his wife's passport was missing. At the time of departure from Hyd. it was there, without which neither the airline nor the immigration allow them to leave. Whole family had to return to hyd. helplessly. On arrival at Bombay back, the police caught them and now it is over 2 months, they are running after the Police, Immigration officers and the Courts. On going into details with him, he found out the following. One cannot imagine, neither can believe, that the Indian Immigration dept can play such a nasty game to harass the innocent passengers. All the passengers travelling to & fro India via Bombay, Hyd and Cok must be aware of this conspiracy. Every month 15 to 20 cases are taking place, at each mentioned airport, of holding the passengers in the crime of tearing away the passport pages. On interviewing some of them, none of them was aware of what had happened. They don't know who, when and why tore away the page from the middle of the passport. One can imagine the sufferings of such people at the hands of the immigration, police and the court procedures in India after that. The number of cases is increasing in the last 2-3 years. People who are arriving at the immigration, they are questioned and their passports are being held and they have to go in interrogations. Obviously, the conspiracy started about 2 to 3 years ago, now the results are coming. An official source who did not want to disclose his name & identity told to me that this is a well planned conspiracy in which the Immigration dept. and the Police dept. are hand in glove. Some of the Air India counter staff too is involved in this conspiracy. |
| 07/19/03 at 04:19:19 |
| jannah |
| Re: Travel to India Passport Warning |
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| humble_muslim |
| 07/19/03 at 13:42:21 |
| AA This sounds like an Urban Legend to me! |
| NS |
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| jannah |
| 07/19/03 at 14:34:24 |
| [wlm] yeah i tried to research it but couldn't find anything... but do know of horror stories where officials confiscate your passport and ur stuck... |
| Re: Travel to India Passport Warning |
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| lucid9 |
| 07/19/03 at 15:07:11 |
| [slm] An indian friend of mine had his passport switched by the customs officials. He was given somebody else's passport, and someone else was given his passport. He didn't figure this out until he left the airport and other guy with his passport had gotten onto a connecting flight to somewhere else. |
| Re: Travel to India Passport Warning |
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| panjul |
| 07/21/03 at 10:41:59 |
| [slm] One time this guy asked my mom for a bribe to let her get through and on her flight back to the US, or else she would have a long delay--he'll make sure of it, he told her. My mom was angry and she called all the people around her to her side and said this guy wants a bribe from me and is harassing a woman. Well, he didn't have to wait for anyone to ask him why he was doing that, he took my mom's bags, put them on a cart and fisked her off to her flight apologizing all way... [] |
| Re: Travel to India Passport Warning |
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| humble_muslim |
| 07/21/03 at 16:55:56 |
| AA Mashallaah, kudos to your mom! Man, I'd love to have seen that! |
| NS |
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