Citizens of the Maldives will soon have access to a convenient online tourist visa for Australia, with the Australian government’s announcement that the e676 electronic tourist visa will soon be expanded into the area. Maldivians can apply for the e676 electronic tourist visa online from 1 July. The application process…
Ukrainian Interior Minister Anatoliy Mohyliov has predicted that ID cards will be issued instead of internal passports in Ukraine in a year. “As for the replacement of internal passports in Ukraine with ID cards, I think that it will take about nine months or a year,” he said at a…
Canada gave a new push to Indo-Canada trade relations when it announced a new visa regime that would allow Indians 10-year multiple entry visas to the country. The announcement was made by the Canadian Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway Edward Fast at the roundtable discussion…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hails the favorable vote returned by the European Parliament, by a wide margin (487 votes in favor, 77 votes against and 29 abstentions) today, June 8th, 2011, to Romania and Bulgaria joining the Schengen Area. By this vote the European parliament is sending a clear…
France will be granting Taiwanese youth the working holiday visa soon, the Bureau Francais de Taipei said Wednesday at the institute’s name change press conference. The Taiwan-France working holiday program is at its final stage of completion and hopefully will be ready before the arrival of summer, said the Bureau…
During the month of May 2011, a total number of 865 Visa on Arrival ( VoAs ) were issued . The number of VoAs issued during the month of April 2011 were 1234. During the period January-May 2011, a total number of 5004 VoAs were issued. The country wise break…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China announced on its official website on Wednesday that China’s first electronic passport, introduced on January 30 of this year, will take effect beginning July 1. According to the announcement, the ministry has informed other countries of the electronic passport by providing the new…
Russia and the European Union have reached an agreement on long-term visas, for up to five years, a Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday. “In addition to a visa-free regime with the EU, we are also negotiating visa facilitation,” said Vladimir Voronkov, director of the ministry’s European Cooperation Department. The…
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has proposed a new process for filing H-1B visa petitions that it says could help businesses save millions of dollars, particularly due to reduced legal fees. But some critics warn that the government proposal would also create a new way to game the H-1B…
Ukrainian and Serbian officials have signed here an agreement on a visa-free regime for short-term travel between two countries. “I am pleased to proclaim that we have just signed a bilateral agreement to ease visa requirements for our citizens,” said Kostyantyn Gryschenko, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, during a press conference…