Visa & Passport Policy Changes

India Tourist Visa Two Month Gap Lifted

On November 23, 2012, the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced that the gap requirement would be eliminated for virtually all tourist visa holders.  Nationals of Afghanistan, China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan, Bangladesh, and foreign nationals of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin and “stateless persons” will continue to come under the 60-­day gap rule, but

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Are You Eligible for the Diversity Visa Lottery?

By Elizabeth Walder, Esq., Immigration Law Associates, P.C.  The U.S. Congress created the Diversity Visa (DV) lottery program as a way of broadening the U.S. immigrant population by granting permanent residence to aliens of countries with a low rate of immigration to the U.S.  Unfortunately, those in high-immigration countries must

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