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Dont cry victim if visa rejected......

When Americans wants to visit the any country their Visa's will approve immediately but when other country visits America is like going to a war to have your visa approve..

Many Indian people go to Canada on student visas and never report to the college. They end up as illegals in the USA and Canada. They come from one specific region of India. This hurts the Indian passport ranking.

I make it a point not to go anywhere I have to apply for a visa.

India should stop e-visas for govt employees of countries like the US. Any US citizen who or whose immediate family member is a US govt employee should be asked to queue up at an Indian consulate and given an appointment after 1 year. They should be asked to submit various sorts of documents, submit their passport, wait for 45 days after which depending on the mood of the officer at the consulate, a sticker visa could be issued. This policy should be for OCIs who take up govt job as well.\n\nPS: Egypt had removed Canada from their visa on arrival list after canada began arbitrarily rejecting egyptian visa applications. This has been done in the past

Madam you need to understand why visas are getting rejected because of government fighting policy with other countries. At last who suffers a common man who just wants to earn money. Indian government can show an attitude once you are a developed nation.

Palki how many Indians applied for visa to Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Chad, Central Africa, Congo, Colombia etc? Why don’t they visit there?

Most embassy earn more by visa rejection since you have to pay for submission.

Ms. Sharma please do not MISLEAD + CONFUSE viewers in name of Nationalism.\n\n\nIf it is news worthy, I think PM office should RETURN the favors to ALL these countries and stop issuing VISAS.\n\nAs far as I know [and i can be corrected] visa fees are on a equal footings [in terms of cost] . But ofcourse, if fewer people apply for Indian visa revenue for Indian government woll be lower.\n\nPlease understand the subject matter and then report it and NO DISINFORMATION or MISINFORMATION. We have TOO MUCH OF THAT.

Palki is not able to see the simple reason why Indians face higher visa restrictions...India has the highest number of visa violators. Indians need to stop acting like victims of sovereign countries' visa regimes. You don't like what they do, don't go there.

Do you expect 100 out of 100 approval in India? Then why did you need to apply Visa at the 1st place? Right?

Modi Ji is busy in Delhi election so he can't beat 'Danka'. Election khatam hone doh hamara Modi Ji Danka bajadenge ?.\n\nAll foreigners are getting Indian visas now why don't all Indians get own visa. If we don't get visa of own country how do we expect to be given visa overseas ?\n\nIf Neheru has started to give visa stamp in every page of passport while issuing passport youths wouldn't be roaming around VFS and embassies for visa. Neheru ki galti haii bhaisahab clear cut.

- Majority of Indians travelling overseas have several issues mainly: civic ethics, behaviour, stealing, ego, no empathy, rude, overstay on tourist visas, and claiming refugee in US, UAE, AUS, NZ and Canada. So of course rejection rate is high.

It is a reflection of how Indians are regarded all over the world. Something that you Indians have brought upon yourself by visa fraud, fake studentships etc, etc. Clean up your act.

Elephant in the room Palki Sharma omitted. Too many Indians on tourist visas don’t return.

Coz More and More Indians apply for visa so More and More Visa get denies ..... All Visa if given to one country then what about others. Plus pls. check Indians Travel History.... we all know what they do. why Indian Govt. dont takes action on Fraud visa agents in India? and India will take back them all Dunkys? who Believe that after landing they will not apply Asylum?

in your reporting, I wish you had qualified what kinds of visas are rejected - student, visitor, immigration, business, etc. and the numbers.\n\n\n\n\n\nHow about India RECIPROCATEs with the Aforementioned countries because India is the #5th rank economy in the world.\n\nIs it possible that these countries are HINTING at something.

According to your own data, more than 80% of visa to USA, UK and Europe and almost 70 % of visa to Australia and New Zealand are approved for Indians in 2024. That is darn good. I don’t see any reason to complain about.

Top 5 highest ranking in Asia (number of countries without a visa) :\n\n1 Singapore 195\n2 Japan 192\n3 S Korea 191\n4 Malaysia 182\n5 Hong Kong 170\n\nChina 85\n\nIndia 58

I am an Indian living in New Zealand, actually one of the biggest reason is the Visa scams Indians do especially from few states which has caused this issue. Also, the kind of people coming into the country, their no sense of comprehension towards the Local laws, culture and traditions.

It is about time that nations applied more stringent visa requirements. All nations have the right to carefully assess the motives of visitors to ensure they don't overstay their welcome. I suggest India look inwards to find reasons why its passport is lowly ranked rather than casting aspersions at foreign nations.

Issue raised by legit visa applicants. Unfortunately actions of many of their fellow countrymen such misused of visa have make a dent on them.

Indians produced fake documents caught red handedly. So visa rejection rate increased

I agree with the ranking, and the west doesn't need indian talent, india needs the west. Keep your talent, that way you won't need any visa. Kosova people are not demonstrating in host nations they visit like Indians, Burkina Faso is not over populating other countries illegally that's why they are better than India and if they immigrate they learn the culture and integrate. Take and inside look and find out why evry country finds u unpleasant

Palki, I'm a huge admirer of your journalism. Being a proud Indian and living in NZ from a decade I can say it's not just the equality.\nThe amount of frauds we do in our visa application just to enter a foreign land, I can speak on behalf of NZ, makes it difficult for the next batch of applications coming from that region.\nI won't label that with racism because every country has the right to protect its borders. NZ, Aus in particular has a strong and proud Indian diaspora with more and more Indians successfully coming in every year. But we India as a large population has one of the most number of applications which also increases the chancesl of rejection.

Look at overstays and visa abuses . I think answers maybe found.

India can't control its own population growth, and have been exporting labor as their chief commodity for the past two centuries, Why should Indians get visas to the West? They never return home.

So you seem to be blaming the Country denying Indians a visa. Break down the rejections. Indians like any other third world country are known to use these avenues to escape from India. Don't blame the countries for taking time to assess. Blame the Indian society/economics that is forcing people to exit the country. See what can be done to fix that first, so that people don't want to exit your motherland first.

Palki pls you promote more and more Modi and Sanghi ideologies. Definitely Indians will get free visa immediately all over the world countries ???

Why Indians are desperate to escape India inspite of BJP’s golden rule? Can’t modiji create more jobs, clean living and no corruption? Tourist visa visitors are also working cash jobs in US. Some don’t leave. Huge number of illegal Indians that crossed border will be shipped back.

My VISA was rejected for Slovakia. It was my First Onsite Business Trip for a month. I feel very sad ?. \nSuper dissatisfied and disappointed.

Don't apply for visa. Go to those countries which allows Visa free entry.

How easy is it for others to get visa for India

Because many overstayed destroying the reputation for the visa.

It’s the fault of Indians , most of them breach the conditions of their visas especially students from Punjab who take unfair advantage here in the U.K. They work for more than 20 hrs which is allowed under student visa. It’s your duty to study only rather than working some shit job. Deliveroo and other food delivery apps also get plenty of of Indians who are students so do not blame the prime minister or foreign countries , teach your children how to behave properly.

You should see Canadian visa rejections now. They rejected my parents visas twice in spite of providing all required documentation.

Getting the visa appointment is hard because of how many people are trying to get out from here, just because everyone else is doing. I'll give up an example. For German national visa, the slots for next 2 months were filled in two VFS centres, ( which two states in India depends on) were filled in an hour. And a lot of those guys who go abroad, ruin the country they go to with their bs from India.

3:35 unnecessary nationalism is what you bargained to be on limelight. \nhenley passport index are simply based on datas provided as no of. visa free entry it has.\nalso keeping in mind the large share of illegal immirgration issue and other aspects

?WRONG ! What you write is wrong ! These are not INDIAN VISAS which are REJECTED ! These are VISA TO BE GIVEN TO INDIANS which are rejected.\nCorrect you text !?

The Rejection rate is still very low . India can also do more to prevent illegal immigration to other countries. That gives all Indians a bad image and more scrutiny when they apply for a Visa. Like Requiring all Indians travelling overseas to have a return ticket and digital copy of their Visa, passport that can be accessed by the Indian embassy in the country they plan to visit . So if they are illegals or lose their passport, the India Embassy/Gov will know or be able to help them with a new passport to travel back to India. Digital copy is to be submitted to the Indian Embassy in the country they plan to visit days before departure, with conformation .\n\n These simple steps will bring more credibility to Indian Passport holders.

It is surprising they still give out millions of visas while a significant number of travelers abuse the system! Rest of the world also does not want illegal immigrants/visa abusers the same way India doesn't. They might reconsider their rejection if India offers free deportation flights to back home for the millions of Indian illegal immigrants around the world and do a better job of screening potential abusers at the emigration step.

If we are able to stop fake visa seekers from Punjab, Haryana, Andhra and Gujarat then the world will have greater confidence in granting visas to Indians.

You take a package tour from a company like Thomas cook and an unemployed person will also get a visa .

What about India refusing visas. What’s their percentage f refusal.

Austria rejected my visa even after having hefty bank balance .

Can we get information-about how many percent visa applications NDIA rejected

Well said! I hope our Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes note. It's high time India earns global respect, particularly from the UK, USA and EU. Offering arrival visas to income tax filers could be a game-changer and a start to that direction and will motivating more people to file returns to get that pride status. Currently, only 3% of Indians file tax returns, whereas at least 10% should. This initiative would benefit India and provide developed countries with a better filtering process.

I am a cruise ship worker and i travel US and canada every year . In 2023 i had my joining at dry dock in spain . And i was in Schengen visa center in kolkata . There i meet one sardar ji . He was their for the tourist visa and he told me , all his family members in Canada but his visa 7 times got rejected by the canadian authority. Now he want to get a tourist visa for spain and he have a plan to not come back . And he was telling me all those thing with extremely loud voice in front of the visa application center. Just imagine How crazy that was ?

When west was colonizing, they never sought visa from the countries which they were colonizing. When the loot was complete, suddenly visa and passport came up.

Let me help you do the math, it’s 100 Indians getting a visa and 1 person from Kosovo, so yea it might seem like Indians are not getting visas but it’s a lot of them applying vs other countries