Chennai: Lack of communication about the lifting of a travel ban led to officials of an airline barring a woman from the city and her husband, both US nationals, from taking a flight from Kunming, China, to Chennai, where they intended to visit the woman's mother.
The woman and her husband had to return directly to the US from China.
The Bureau of Immigration was apparently the villain of the piece, having failed to convey to airlines that the country had lifted a rule barring foreign nationals from travelling to India on a tourist visa more than once within a two-month period.
Amiya Kesavan, the woman's mother, told TOI that her daughter Kamala Kesavan Witowsky and her husband James Witowsky, both US nationals, arrived in Chennai from the US on February 25. After spending a few days in her mother's house in Chennai, Kamala and her husband took a flight to Kunming, in southwest China's Yunnan Province, where they planned to visit friends.
18/03/15 P Oppili/Times of India
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The woman and her husband had to return directly to the US from China.
The Bureau of Immigration was apparently the villain of the piece, having failed to convey to airlines that the country had lifted a rule barring foreign nationals from travelling to India on a tourist visa more than once within a two-month period.
Amiya Kesavan, the woman's mother, told TOI that her daughter Kamala Kesavan Witowsky and her husband James Witowsky, both US nationals, arrived in Chennai from the US on February 25. After spending a few days in her mother's house in Chennai, Kamala and her husband took a flight to Kunming, in southwest China's Yunnan Province, where they planned to visit friends.
18/03/15 P Oppili/Times of India
