Nagpur: Police Special Branch, which also arranged the Office of foreigners (FRO), held a meeting with Afghans who lived in the city to warn them about emergency visa services announced by the Indian government considering the political situation in Afghanistan.
The government has announced that Afghanistan can apply for emergency – x-misc visa – online if they want to come to India because of the situation that applies in their country.
“There were 95 Afghans in Nagpur.
The meeting was held to prepare them apply for an emergency visa that was directly handled by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of External.
There may be some of their relatives who just went there to visit and now might want to go back.
It can apply for an emergency visa.
Afghanistan is also asked to notify whether they are facing problems as long as they live in India, “said DCP, a special branch, the Afghan Basavaraj Telithe was also asked to notify a special branch if there was a manner to Nagpur on an emergency visa.
Shah, community leader here, said they had told the police that they had no problems living here.
However, he stressed that even Afghanistan must be given identity documents such as aadhaar cards.
This will allow them to get basic facilities in their names.
“Afghanistan lives in India since the last 80 years.
However, because of the lack of documents, they can’t even get a cooking gas cylinder with their names.
Authorities need to issue relevant documents so that the facility can be estimated easily,” he said.
National Afghanistan has lived in the city, runs a small business that sells blankets and blankets.
They entered the country on refugee status.
Some of them have come to the city since generations.
The police source said aside from asking about their problems, the purpose of the meeting was also to prevent any events.
So far, they have lived peacefully here.