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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Gabe, I guess if it's a matter that arises primarily because of your non-resident status (and being out of Goa), then you should take it up not just with Ulhas Kamat but with Eduardo Faleiro (the NRI Commissioner). How effective that will be, I cannot say, knowing the vagaries of government -- which works sometimes and sometimes (more often?) doesn't. Someone I know is still trying to get to the bottom of why he was being deprived a visa to visit Goa for many years, without any specific reason being given! On the other hand, if this is a case of a general nature, then obviously it could be unfair to burden an infrastructure set up with a specialist agenda to take it on. It must be said however that the tenancy laws of the 1960s and 1970s (particularly the mundkar, or homestead-tenancy laws) have been overwhelmingly anti-expat in impact. Many reading this would know how it worked: you're based abroad, give that friendly neighbour your home (or part of it) to stay in and look after, and suddenly the laws change and s/he becomes owner with many actual-owners left homeless. It might be nice if we on Goanet could spend some time to put this issue on the agenda, rather than just indulging in infighting and name-calling and spending so much of our energies to make the point of how great Portuguese colonialism was in its civilising mission. FN On 13/07/06, Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Fred, > I have a problem regarding my property in Goa, do you think Ulhas > Kamat is the right person to approach? If so I would appreciate an > email/mail address. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Frederick 'FN' Noronha | Yahoomessenger: fredericknoronha http://fn.goa-india.org | +91(832)2409490 Cell 9822122436 ---------------------------------------------------------- 2248 copylefted photos from Goa: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org