Come, visit and explore..! India and Maldives open doors by facilitating 90-day visa free travel visa accord

New Delhi, January 16: Enhancing the strengthened relations that India and Maldives exhibit, the two countries have now opened wide arms in welcoming the Agreement on the facilitation of visa arrangements signed between India and Maldives signed in December 2018. With this approval, the countries have solidified their people to people exchange making it easier for Indians and Maldivians to travel and explore each other’s countries giving a boost to tourism, medical treatment, education, business etc.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its ex-post facto approval to the facilitation of visa arrangements between the two countries. The Agreement provides for 90-day visa-free travel for tourism, medical and limited business purpose and also provides for easy conversion of such visa-free entry to medical visa as well as visas for dependents of students and those pursuing employment in each other's territories.

 

India and Maldives share time tested and traditional bonds of friendship. Close people to people contacts constitute the foundation of special bilateral relation between India and Maldives, which received a positive momentum with the visit of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to Male in November, 2018 for the Inauguration ceremony of the newly elected President of Maldives, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, and the subsequent visit of the Maldivian President to India in December, 2018.

The Visa Facilitation Agreement signed during the visit of Maldivian President to India aims to further deepen people to people exchanges between the two countries making it easier for Maldivian and India nationals to travel to each others' countries for tourism, medical treatment, education as well as business and employment.