12-21-2006, 04:13 AM
Un-freaking-believable!
Mumbai immigration deports children!
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mumbai Airport immigration officials deported <b>seven-year-old Viraj Shriwardhankar and his three-and-a- half-year- old brother Vrishabh two hours after they landed in India</b> last week. Their parents' plea for a transit or temporary visa was summarily denied.
The officials granted a two-day transit visa to a French national at the same time, their father Vijay Shriwardhankar wrote in an e-mail. 'The French national has white skin while Viraj and Vrishabh have brown skin.'
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->No one was bothered that the children had already traveled for about 24 hours. 'There was absolutely no humanity shown by the ACP (Assistant Commissioner of Police) Immigration or Air France officials,' Vijay said. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->'I requested my friend in Boston to go to my house and fax the visa papers immediately. She was already on her way to get those papers. I was begging the Immigration ACP and Air France officials to allow us to wait at the airport until officials received the fax but they didn't want to do anything about it and forced us to take the flight at 2:40,' Vijay said.
The officials received the fax 10 minutes after the flight departed, the couple discovered later.
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Mumbai immigration deports children!
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mumbai Airport immigration officials deported <b>seven-year-old Viraj Shriwardhankar and his three-and-a- half-year- old brother Vrishabh two hours after they landed in India</b> last week. Their parents' plea for a transit or temporary visa was summarily denied.
The officials granted a two-day transit visa to a French national at the same time, their father Vijay Shriwardhankar wrote in an e-mail. 'The French national has white skin while Viraj and Vrishabh have brown skin.'
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->No one was bothered that the children had already traveled for about 24 hours. 'There was absolutely no humanity shown by the ACP (Assistant Commissioner of Police) Immigration or Air France officials,' Vijay said. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->'I requested my friend in Boston to go to my house and fax the visa papers immediately. She was already on her way to get those papers. I was begging the Immigration ACP and Air France officials to allow us to wait at the airport until officials received the fax but they didn't want to do anything about it and forced us to take the flight at 2:40,' Vijay said.
The officials received the fax 10 minutes after the flight departed, the couple discovered later.
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