The list would include countries eligible for the entry visa, as well as Brazil, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Mauritius, Norway, Palestine, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. [46] [47] On 5 February 2014, it was decided to introduce a visa on arrival for tourists from 180 countries. The technical implementation, such as the implementation of the website for the applications, was expected to take about 6 months and the authorities hoped to set it up for the tourist season from October 2014. Potential visitors should pay a fee and the electronic version of the visa should be issued within three days. The program should apply to all international airports. However, nationals of Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan should be excluded from this programme. [39] The British system now allows Indians to apply for priority or super priority authorization to travel to the United Kingdom on an emergency basis. A normal visa application from India can take up to 3 weeks to be processed by the UK authorities, the priority visa up to a week and the super priority application is designed to be reviewed within 24 hours of filing. India is one of the largest volume countries in terms of the number of citizens who have applied for Schengen visas in recent years. Since many Indian nationals need to travel to Europe urgently for business or personal reasons, European countries in the Schengen area are considering setting up an urgent Schengen visa program for Indian passport holders.
Similar initiatives have already been launched in the past by other countries in the region. In 2013, a dispute a ensue aded over the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2013, the Senate version of which states that compliance with requirements for mutual travel privileges for U.S. citizens would be subject to security concerns. [51] Many members of the House reject the language of security because it seems to confirm Israel`s tendency to avoid Arab Americans without justification. . . .
