Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:24:36 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes gabe.mene...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ? On 26 July 2010 17:36, Joe lOBO tw...@pathcom.com wrote: Noting a previous letter today about foreign nationals overstaying their visitors` visas in India..one sees another article in todays TOI about Goa immigration authorities being complicit in the issuance of visas to Russian tourists arriving without any background checks or verification. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Free-for-all-Russians-dont-need-visa-in-Goa/articleshow/5182267.cms * * * RESPONSE: So what's new? Open your wallet anything from USD 20 to 100 and the trick is done! We seriously need the CBI to check this racket outhope our MLA's are reading this; on the other hand they might not - their take might be in jeapordy? -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. A practice known in Nigeria as 'dash' ... Cheers, p+3D! * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
[Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ?
Noting a previous letter today about foreign nationals overstaying their visitors` visas in India..one sees another article in todays TOI about Goa immigration authorities being complicit in the issuance of visas to Russian tourists arriving without any background checks or verification. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Free-for-all-Russians-dont-need-visa-in-Goa/articleshow/5182267.cms * * * IS YOURS one of the stories of Goans on board the S.S. Dwarka, or at the Strait of Hormuz, Basra or Bahrain, Dubai, Swindon, Mombasa, Poona or Rangoon? Selma Carvalho's new book *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* docks at many other ports. Get your copy from Broadways, Panjim [9822488564] Rs 295. Pp extra. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ?
On 26 July 2010 17:36, Joe lOBO tw...@pathcom.com wrote: Noting a previous letter today about foreign nationals overstaying their visitors` visas in India..one sees another article in todays TOI about Goa immigration authorities being complicit in the issuance of visas to Russian tourists arriving without any background checks or verification. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Free-for-all-Russians-dont-need-visa-in-Goa/articleshow/5182267.cms * * * RESPONSE: So what's new? Open your wallet anything from USD 20 to 100 and the trick is done! We seriously need the CBI to check this racket outhope our MLA's are reading this; on the other hand they might not - their take might be in jeapordy? -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ?
Joe lOBO wrote: Noting a previous letter today about foreign nationals overstaying their visitors` visas in India..one sees another article in todays TOI about Goa immigration authorities being complicit in the issuance of visas to Russian tourists arriving without any background checks or verification. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Free-for-all-Russians-dont-need-visa-in-Goa/articleshow/5182267.cms Any idea why the Russians are specially targeted by the media? Are they the much-derided ghantis of the international tourism trade? See the manner in which a Russian (and, to some extent, Israeli too) case is handled as compared to those of other tourists! FN * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ?
Imho, other nationalities do not get bossy once they get into Goa. The Israeli and the Russians are known to corral properties be they restauarants or beach areas where they will bar admittance to local goans. While you personally may think that is an acceptable way for a foreigner on a work permit or visitors visa to act, obviously it has come to the attention of the Indian media who take exception to it . - Original Message - From: Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ? Joe lOBO wrote: Noting a previous letter today about foreign nationals overstaying their visitors` visas in India..one sees another article in todays TOI about Goa immigration authorities being complicit in the issuance of visas to Russian tourists arriving without any background checks or verification. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Free-for-all-Russians-dont-need-visa-in-Goa/articleshow/5182267.cms Any idea why the Russians are specially targeted by the media? Are they the much-derided ghantis of the international tourism trade? See the manner in which a Russian (and, to some extent, Israeli too) case is handled as compared to those of other tourists! FN * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * * * * * UK STOCKS EXHAUSTED! After a community-supported launch at Croydon, Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* is available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. Ask a friend to pick up a copy. Details of the book http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
