India to outsource visas to US

[Bhaisahab]

maybe this will lend some cheer to you this gloomy day?
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New Delhi, October 28: Even as tour operators and agencies plead with the Central Government for easier visa regulations for tourists, the Tourism Ministry has recommended outsourcing visas to private companies, to loosen the stranglehold of the 'visa bureaucracy' regime.

Ministry officials believe the only way to cash in on the growing India-boom worldwide is to make visas accessible to the maximum people, in maximum cities, in maximum countries.

The outsourcing of visas help in two ways, reckon officials. ‘‘First, it is cheaper to outsource rather than set up 20 consulates to process visas say in 20 US cities,’’ says an official. ‘‘Today, a person in Milwaukee has to travel to either Houston or New York or any of the five cities where we have an office, to get an Indian visa,’’ a Ministry official said.

MORE AT: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=57425

[Kolesar]

1. Wall Street needs to get in the middle of that for it to be worthwhile

Nothing is worth the attention of the ruling class unless it can be privatized for profit.

[leveymg]

2. Why not just eliminate the requirement for Americans to get visas?

The answer is: reciprocity. Unlike Europeans, Japanese, and AUS-NZ, Indians must apply for tourist visas to visit the U.S. To return the favor, they require Americans to apply for visas to visit India.

[JCMach1]

3. Precisely.... besides you don't want to touch Indian

gov. bureaucracy with a 10ft. poll...

You think America is bad!