India Suspension Of Visa Services For Pakistan: 14 types of visas cancelled for Pakistani nationals: Who has to leave and by when? | India News

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NEW DELHI: India on Friday introduced the suspension of visa providers for Pakistani nationals with fast impact and revoked all current legitimate visas issued to them, besides for long-term, diplomatic, and official visas.
The transfer comes amid heightened tensions between the 2 international locations following Tuesday’s terror assault on vacationers at Pahalgam’ Baisaran meadow in Jammu and Kashmir, which claimed the lives of 25 Indian nationals and one Nepali citizen. As half of its countermeasures, the federal government has revoked most visas issued to Pakistani nationals with fast impact.
Saarc visas will expire on April 26, whereas medical visas will stay legitimate till April 29.
Visas of all different classes will stop to be legitimate after April 27. Any Pakistani citizen who fails to exit India by the desired deadline might be handled as an overstaying overseas nationwide.
Who has to leave and by when
Amid confusion on which visas have been revoked, exit deadlines, and which visas are nonetheless legitimate, the house ministry Friday issued a communication to all state governments, stating:

Long-term visas (LTV) stay legitimate. So, who can get an LTV?
The following classes of Pakistani nationals, coming to India with a legitimate passport and visa and looking for everlasting settlement with a view to purchase Indian citizenship, are eligible:

LTV for 5 yrs at a time could also be granted to the primary 3 classes. In case of class 4, the preliminary LTV is granted solely for 1 yr. Extension of LTV granted on a 2-year foundation.
India has additionally taken a sequence of diplomatic steps, together with declaring Pakistani defence, army, naval and air advisors as persona non grata and ordering them to leave inside per week.
Simultaneously, India will withdraw its defence-related advisors and 5 help workers from its personal High Commission in Islamabad. The quantity of workers at each excessive commissions might be lower down from 55 to 30 by May 1, 2025.
Additionally, the Centre has introduced the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty and closure of the built-in examine put up on the Attari border.
Following the closure of the Attari border after the Pahalgam terror assault, many Pakistani nationals started returning residence. As per ANI, a Pakistani nationwide who was heading again to Pakistan stated, “We have to return within 15 days, while we were on 1.5 months of visa… Islam doesn’t teach murder of innocents… Whoever did this should be hanged on the spot.”