As a first step to grant Indian citizenship to nearly 60,000 Hindu refugees from Pakistan, the Government on Wednesday rolled out an online system for submission of long Term Visa (lTV) application and for its processing by various agencies.
The decision taken by the Home Ministry is to address the difficulty being faced by Hindu minorities of Pakistan who come to India with the intention to settle here permanently, official sources said. So far, all such visa applications have been accepted manually. Pakistani nationals eligible for lTV can now submit the applications online by logging into www.Indianfrro.Gov.In/frro.
The new system will enable the applicants to monitor and track their applications and will also help in their speedy disposal. While the manual system of submission of lTV applications will continue along with the online system for three months with effect from August 1, 2015, all applications for lTV will be received and processed only on the online mode.