Goa: MLA Michael Lobo seeks Amit Shah’s intervention in UK e-visa issue

Times of India | 1 day ago | 22-10-2022 | 08:06 am

PANAJI: Calangute MLA Michael Lobo has written to Union home minister Amit Shah requesting him to intervene in restoring the e-visa facility for UK nationals. "The impact on Goa's tourism industry is crippling, especially in this post-Covid recovery phase," Lobo has said. Recently, the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) had said that Goa's tourism sector could possibly see losses to the tune of Rs 80-100 crore due to delays in issuance of visas to UK travellers, while Goa's charter tourism season begins in October. Lobo said that the e-visa facility not being available has also hit the Indian diaspora in the UK. "I have been receiving a number of requests from many of those impacted to take this up with your good office for early redressal. It is, therefore, my humble submission that the e-visa facility may be considered for restoration to accord relief to our diaspora in the UK at the earliest," Lobo said in his letter to Shah. The discontinuation of the e-visa facility is 'causing untold hardships to incoming tourists as well as people travelling to their native places in Goa and the rest of India from UK', Lobo has said.

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