A Guide to Acquire your Visa for your travel from the UK to India
Getting a visa for your travel from the UK to India is not too difficult. Here is a step wise guide based on my personal experience to help you in case you need a visa to visit India. The first step is to download the visa form from the website of High Commission of
India. After carefully filling up the form, get two passport size photographs and visit one of the Indian consulates. In London, it is
the India House, Aldwych. Before visiting the Consulate, check out the official holidays listed on the web site, lest you end up there on an off day. Be sure to carry the sum required for your Visa application in cash as credit cards or cheques are not accepted.
Be prepared for long queues. It is advisable not to visit right after a holiday as the queues can be longer than usual. To beat the queue, it is essential to arrive early. The later you arrive, the longer you will have to wait. In fact, being too late may mean that you will fail to get your visa on the same day. Altogether, you have to stand in three queues.
The first queue is right outside India House. When you reach your turn, you need to show the clerk that you have a valid passport. In return, the clerk gives you a queue number or numbers. This depends upon the number of visa or passport applications made by you.
Armed with your queue number, you need to join the second queue upstairs. Take the stairs and head to the main room. The current queue number is displayed in a corner of the room, along with an alphabet from A to E. The display panel flashes from A1 to E99. Go to a window, when your queue number is flashed. Hand over your passport, passport photos, application money and application. You will be provided with a receipt containing your queue number, which would be the same as before. Your passport won’t be returned as it would be required for visa processing.
Now, you will be asked to wait. If everything is in order, your number would be called out pretty soon. The moment you hear your number, go to window 1 and collect your passport. Your visa would be inside your passport. When they ask you to check the details, do it carefully. After all, you need to be absolutely certain that there are no discrepancies concerning your passport number and the dates of your planned trip.
Types and Sources of Travelers Insurance
Travelers insurance is used to cover any medical and/or financial losses that incur while traveling inside or outside one’s country of citizenship.
Comprehensive traveler medical insurance is for people who do not have any medical insurance anywhere. People without any medical insurance are most often long-term travelers, who either do not work anymore or dropped their insurance, or people who work and/live in a country that is not their permanent residence or place of citizenship.
For people with health insurance in his or her place of citizenship, emergency travel medical insurance can be purchased if that health insurance plan does not cover travelers insurance.
Medical evacuation insurance is needed when people are injured so terribly that they need to be evacuated by an air ambulance. Most people can be transported home on a commercial passenger flight when they have stabilized after treatment. Trip cancellation insurance will cover the costs canceling the trip, cutting the trip short or costs of getting home if the trip is canceled. The cancellation can be due to illness or injury. Supplier default insurance will cover any money lost due to the bankruptcy of any service used while traveling.
Sources of travelers insurance can come from traveling agencies and services, health insurance policies or from separate travelers insurance agencies. It is important to talk to your current insurance agent because they may offer travelers insurance as well. Rental car insurance companies can also provide rental car insurance during trips, which can cover damage or theft done to the car. It can also cover the liability to other vehicles and people injured or damaged.