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Sorry, cannot issue your wife a visa. She is dead!
By VKG
In
July 1987 or so, we made a program to visit Dhaka, Bangladesh
for sightseeing. We applied for Tourist visa at the Consulate
in Calcutta, India after obtaining the tickets.
All the necessary paperwork was submitted. It came as
a shock to me, when the Bangladesh Consulate granted the
visas to my three dependent children, and me but not to
my wife. The reason we were given was that: in the passport
the words 'nil' were filled out against the profession
as opposed to 'housewife' which was my wife's 'profession'.
The consulate personnel told me " it meant that she was
dead and hence the visa could not be issued".
She was standing right by me at the Consulate! However,
no amount of reasoning made them change their decision.
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