Yah good luck with that.... I've (not) been waiting nearly 2 weeks.

I did hear though that Delhi airport has had the gates installed since a couple of years and they were basically just waiting for the joke ministry to get the ball rolling on enrolment.

I've seen no evidence of any such infrastructure at BOM so it's entirely possible I'll have this E Entry thing in theory only for a long time.

On the lines of when they announced biometric passports were to be rolled out any day now, and made all this noise about the response time of the home-grown technology being a few milliseconds quicker than what the French or Americans had. Even issued Pratibha Patil the first (and I suspect only) biometric passport. Must be at least 15 years ago.

In the meanwhile, Afghanistan and Madagascar and Honduras and Fiji and Syria and Somalia and even bloody Bangladesh have all forged ahead. Whilst we're still where we were 15 years ago ("any second now")!