Carnet India
 

Hi there
Planning to drive into India with our truck. We do have a carnet de passage
We will apply for 6 month visa. But planning to go home for one month leaving the truck in storage in India
Is this allowed. Look forward to a response

Cheers
Fearless

It should be fine. We left our bike in chennai for a month while we flew out to work. They never asked us about it.

Carnet
 

Many thanks for your response

Cheers
Fearless

leaving yuor car
 

a good and safe place to leave yuo mc or car tray hotel chand palace in puschkar nice place four parking and camping long time coole hotel swimingpole and a big garden to park in safe ass it geats in india :D

visa blues
 

Hi Fearless, check out the small print carefully on the visa application from your locale Embassy. You will need a double entry visa with an endorsement to re enter within a 2 month time span. Double entry visa normally means you have to stay out of the country for minimum 2 months. These seem to be the new laws (2013). Am in same situation, am applying here in Holland for double entry cos am going to Nepal. Pushkar is brill though :thumbup1: Find a safe hotel or business to park & you should be oke. Have never had problem in India. If you in Chennai (Madras) go to Mamallapuram a little town full with sculptures, also a good place to chill & park up :palm:. Good luck sounds like a super trip Vince

carnet India
 

Hi Vince thank you for your info, currently in Tibet. Driving to Nepal Next week. I am seeing the India Embassy in Kathmandu will keep you updated.

Cheers
Fearless

I think the 2 month reentry rule was lifted but make sure you have a multi entry visa.

mo mo's & chang
 

Hi fearless, by all accounts embassy in Kathmandu is laid back. But for safety check with them about re entry. May be smart to brave the line of waiting people :( and go to embassy yourself & not use an agency. It may well be that different criteria exist for different nationalities & regions in the world. Will know next week, gotta go to embassy monday with me paper work. Niello8 I really hope you are right, 2 month thing is a real pain in the whatsit. Will post what happened. Could be that website is not updated. Fearless check out place called Bundi north of Kota on road 12 from Jaiphur to kota. Bundi is super chill laid back not to tourist polluted but super vibe :thumbup:, from there short hop to Pushkar & rajastan. Meantime drive safe & have a super time, drink a chang beer & eat some momo's in honour of they who chase the setting sun bier. Good luck Vince

Visa for India
 

Hi All
Thanks for all your info.

Here is the info as of yesterday Oct 4 in Kathmandu
1. 3 month single entry no issue 5 working days
2. 6 month single entry not possible in Kathmandu
3. 6 month multi entry not possible in Kathmandu only in your home country

Sources I used
a. Embassy
b. 3 different agencies.

It made no difference what you fill out on the online application in Kathmandu (outsourced to a agenc next to the embassy) you will only get single entry visa.

It has been suggested to me to go for single entry in Kahmandu later change over to Multi Entry???
Also the 2 month ban after you leave has been lifted.

Cheers
Fearless

Can you get a business visa? This is what we did to get around the 2 month rule but it might work for your purposes.

Visa India
 

Hi Niello
The 2 month rule has been lifted so no longer a issue.
The problem for us is the Multi entry 6 month visa. This is only available from yuor place of residency

Cheers
Fearless

Right but a business visa is multi entry. You'd need a letter from a business in India.

dilema.......
 

Hi fearless, what a mess. Don't know your time frame but would it not be poss. to get 3 month visa, enter India, try to extend... highly unlikely. Though personal visit to Embassy say in Delhi with letter explaining your dilemma & asking for an exception to be made along with application form may work.

Enter on 3 month visa, park up & fly out to do your work thing, reapply for 6 month visa & continue your journey.

Maybe apply online via your home country embassy, print out sign, send passports & forms via courier to family who go to your home country embassy, get the visa's. Send back out by courier. That would be stressy cos you sitting for 2 weeks or so without passports in India or Nepal.

I am in Amsterdam at the moment, will be in India end Oct. & Nepal sometime in November, if I can do anything let me know. In the meantime hang in there & I hope everything works out for you. Loads of luck Vince