Originally Posted by
painitin7
I am living in US.
makes sense....there have been lots of reports of people living in the us getting conditional approval....some as quickly as 3 months....if i remember correctly the first report came in sometime in november....
Originally Posted by
painitin7
I have read your post about what it will require to get the approval for Global Entry and I doubt that Indian government will put that much effort into this, unless it was directed by US in the MOU signed by India and US regarding Indian access to global entry. If MOU has been made public which was actually signed and people have read it, only then I will believe that Indian govt has decided to do things this way, otherwise it's just our guess and my guess is that US put forth those conditions.
it is not directed by the us at all....they in fact had no clue that the indian government required all these background checks....that is why they gave the option of refunds to those people who applied in the first couple of weeks before the indian government published their set of requirements for indians to travel back to india for police verification....
one of the first questions i asked my friend at the external affairs ministry is why the us would put in such requirements when they will be doing their own background checks before approving anyone....he confirmed that no such requirements were in place when the deal was signed & the direction for these background checks were put in place by the pmo a few days after the deal was announced....he further said the that us does their own background checks when they issue visas so he wasn't even sure how much they would be relying on the reports india is going to send them....
you can believe what you want but there is no way the us asked the indian government for all these checks....