Iran announces visa-free policy for Indian tourists

[stanfordgrad]

I believe that figure includes illegals too. Pre 9/11 there were 1.4 million Pakistanis in the US.

those are inflated numbers

USA deported 15,000 illegal immigrants from Muslim countries after 9/11
No illegal Pakistani immigrant was about to get on an aircraft without the TSA performing full body cavity search

 

[stanfordgrad]

Sure, can also see the number of Chinese estimated illegals too (given the heavy bragging their GDP is estimated 4-5x of India with ~ same population):

A Demographic Profile of Undocumented Immigrants from Asia and the Pacific Islands - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS)

According to CMS estimates, there are 1,734,600 undocumented immigrants coming from Asia and the Pacific Islands.

cmsny.org

Also interesting details on socioeconomic profiles of each set of illegals (many being initial legals that overstay).

The kind of thing that explains what underlies the selective clowning from some pretty retarded troll mobs in this forum that have major chip on shoulder.

They are fewer illegal Chinese than illegal Indians. But that is to be expected given China's better economic performance

 

[ST1976]

This is far the dumbest Tehran logic…India purchases limited Iranian oil at a discounted price. Tehran will close her eyes while Indian with Tel Aviv help set both parts of Baluchistan on fire and wreck it with violence. Iran uses Saudi Phobia as a red herring brother. I find Iran Delhi friendship for more menacing than Pakistan’s with gulf. Throw in the Afghans ! We got ourselves a a trio here.

Iran -india have far more trade than being published. It's known....

Iran is strategically as important as our relation with Russia. We find, we have those moral values which bring india -iran -russia together

 

[ST1976]

this is business and good for everyone

we have good relations with India and long may that continue

Here, we find the Chinese tourists also have a chace of Iran's visa free entry similar to Russia.
The Chinese did earned reputation of good behaviour and certainly of going back as compared to Western tourists ....
While it's stated, the Indian Hindus are having highest certainly of going back as compared to tourists of other major countries

 

[ST1976]

Hmmm....Iran. Indians really need to learn civility and civic sense before travelling anywhere..

We discussed, how hard is for citizens of Muslim countries like Saudi A, UAE, Qatar, Indonesia etc to get visa of Iran? I don't think Iran would offer visa free entry to any Muslim country in coming years

 

[ST1976]

It try to capitalize the fact that Indian tourist is decreasing in Western develop nation as their restrict Indians who wants to go their countries using Tourist Visa ( fear they will end up as illegal immigrants)

This is base on real fact latest data

Indians- migrants entered western countries by airlines and with true passport, we may hardly inform about them to concerned embassy. blaming them as illegal who entered from airport is foolish

 

[ST1976]

I believe it makes sense for more and more countries to open up to Indian tourists. Its business!

Hopefully Pakistan's economy will also grow, people becoming well off and able to afford taking holidays abroad.

India and Pakistan would have tourist exchange program. I mean a reasonable number of tourists of India and Pakistan would get some easy access to cross border, mainly by trains as it's cheap.
I like trains like "Matri Express" connecting Kolkata to Dhaka, as it does put this train travel of South Asia on international standard

 

[ST1976]

Tourist is a tourist.

Regardless, hopefully this drives greater travel between citizens of the two countries. Indians rarely travel to Iran and vice-versa. Hopefully this increases people to people engagement.

We find offical visits between the two countries will get encouraged with this move.
Visa on arrival for Indians in Russia is also pending for this year

 

[ST1976]

Indians have had a lot of exposure to Iranian culture and people. Every city has a well-known Irani business, industry, or café—often run by Parsis, who originally came from Iran. There’s also plenty of people-to-people contact, with a significant number of Iranians studying in India.

You might be surprised by how many Indians travel to places like Iran, Turkey etc for tourism. Indians actually have a positive view of Iranians as "good" Muslims.

And here’s something to think about—why do so many Muslim countries offer better visa access to 'kafir' Indians than to their supposed Muslim "brothers" from Pakistan? You want to paint this picture of some grand Muslim unity against India, but in reality, Pakistan often feels like the unwanted relative who only gets invited to weddings out of obligation.

It has been history that if a muslim country like UAE offer visa on arrival to Indians then they would do same favour for Pakistanis also.
Indians - Russians-Chinese get better welcome in Gulf nations than Pakistan -Bangladesh.
Visa on arrival in Qatar for Indians is also a similar news

 

[Indos]

Indians- migrants entered western countries by airlines and with true passport, we may hardly inform about them to concerned embassy. blaming them as illegal who entered from airport is foolish

Man, many illegal immigrants using tourist visa, those who get there using boats or by passing borders are those who cannot get tourist visa to get to wealthy nations most probably because stricker measures like happening with Afghans natinals and others

 

[ST1976]

Man, many illegal immigrants using tourist visa, those who get there using boats or by passing borders are those who cannot get tourist visa to get to wealthy nations most probably because stricker measures like happening with Afghans natinals and others

@nahtanbob

Boss, the im from that time, getting the "tourist" Visa of OECD countries has been for Riches only.
Get a student visa and enter there was much easier, while getting even 'transit' visa has been as hard as getting tourist visa

 

[A1Kaid]

this is business and good for everyone

we have good relations with India and long may that continue

What were you guys thinking!?

 

[Persian Gulf]

What were you thinking.

when Pakistan can't do business with us because of USA sanctions we have no choice but to find alternative economic partners

despite Pakistani reports, there is no evidence Indians are recruited by Mossad in Iran

other Iranians can correct me if I am wrong, but I only see that from Pakistani sources

anyway, a lot of things have changed with this war and true friends have been revealed

 

[diaspora]

when Pakistan can't do business with us because of USA sanctions we have no choice but to find alternative economic partners

despite Pakistani reports, there is no evidence Indians are recruited by Mossad in Iran

other Iranians can correct me if I am wrong, but I only see that from Pakistani sources

anyway, a lot of things have changed with this war and true friends have been revealed

I'm actually shocked by India's silence on Israeli aggression. Pakistan has always said they're spineless but I didn't expect them to be this mute. They even distanced themselves from the SCO statement condemning the strikes against Iran.

 

[Mr X]

when Pakistan can't do business with us because of USA sanctions we have no choice but to find alternative economic partners

despite Pakistani reports, there is no evidence Indians are recruited by Mossad in Iran

other Iranians can correct me if I am wrong, but I only see that from Pakistani sources

anyway, a lot of things have changed with this war and true friends have been revealed

Can you provide the list of true friends standing with Iran? I know almost all the Muslim countries are praying for Iran including Saudis but they are not gonna to help in real fight.

But it would be nice to know if Iran has strong support from other countries… Russia maybe?