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Sorry, for Pak you can now get a visa only in your home country. An acquaintance is stuck in India with his truck because of this.
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Sorry, for Pak you can now get a visa only in your home country. An acquaintance is stuck in India with his truck because of this.
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Maybe he should try in Nepal. Which country is your 'acquaintance' from? Do you have evidence of the visa process change?
EMBASSY OF PAKISTAN IN NEPAL
Visa application form for Embassy in Kathmandu.
http://www.mofa.gov.pk/nepal/documen..._Visa_Form.pdf
This may be the case for some nationals (UK, USA) especially when advised by home consulate but is certainly not the case for the majority. Take the instance when someone (ie. overlander) is travelling for several months or years, he/she doesn't have the opportunity to return home to apply for this visa, the visa application won't be dismissed. The visa will be considered under given circumstances.
I note that the Pakistani embassy in India is often closed or applies a daily quota and refuses service to non Pakistani citizens. This is common and due to political reasons and instabilities between the two countries.
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He is Australian and I have passed the link to this topic to him.
I was told the same when I applied in Dubai. They made an exemption for me, but I don't think this will be done any more.
They don't want overlanders any more, because of the perceived risks involved.
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Since March 2010, it is no longer possible to get a pakistan visa abroad of your home country. it has happened last year to me, and my travel mate, when we where in tashkent, attempting to apply for it. we've just sort it out getting it at the Sost border post, coming from China. Sost it is the only place, except your home country, where you can get a pak visa; but you have to get into China before...
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Pakistan visa
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We are the people "stuck in India" with our truck!
Both Aussie nationals we went first to Ktm but whilst they didn't say no, they said it would take "at least 8 weeks" and we didn't have time. They send us on to Delhi where we were told no way-go home. We got letters from our embassy pleaded etc etc Just "no way -that is now the policy...we can't discuss the policy..." etc
We could go back to Ktm but we wondered has anyone had any luck recently?? We think the "8 weeks" thing was just a nicer way of saying no and don't want the hassle of getting in and out of India for 2 months if they're just messing around. A search of forums hasn't turned up anyone with success getting a Nepal visa in Ktm any time recently. We were told in India and Canberra that Sost was the only border you can get one at (after it opens in May)but that involves the whole "getting into China" nightmare!
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I got a visa for a year in 2006. I knew about the "have to apply in your own country" rule and wrote the embassy in Ottawa, explained the situation and the fact I was going to be out of Canada for 6 months before I got to Pak. I got a year's visa within a week. It all depends on who you get at the embassy. Call the Pak embassy in Aus, explain the situation and FedEx your passports with a letter to the Pak embassy in Aus with a return FedEx envelop. Might be worth your while.
http://www.nohorizons.net/Countries/...Visa_small.JPG
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Hi
Thanks for your input - we s/w the Pak embassy in Canberra and they said no as u have to be on Australian soil , but I agree it's "who u get" and also we recently met a French family who pulled this off -applying from Bangkok to Paris. We'll keep everything crossed and let u all know how we go.
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