Help filling in visa application for India? US cit in UK.?

Question

I am a US citizen/passport holder living in the UK. I am applying for a visa to visit India. It asks for "Country from where migrated" and I have no clue what to put there. Also, besides a hotel where we will stay, is there an american agency I can use as a one of my India referees? Cheers.

Answer 1

Ok your migrated from the USA  on the form.   You need to give someone in India who will act as a referee or accept that you are of good background, not a criminal and not escaping from the USA for some reason ( George Bush perhaps).

Depends why your going, so it might be a business person, a doctor, a university lecturer from the place you plan to visit.

You will find the people at the consulate will answer some questions by phone, otherwise you have to visit their offices.

On the WWW. you will find many Indian people are connected who could be possible referees.

I have a few connections in Punjab, but you need to be looking soon, if you plan to go this year.

Let me know if I can help further.

Answer 2

You only need to fill out the "country from where migrated" field if you were naturalized as a US citizen (i.e., you were born in another country and immigrated to the US, where you later became a citizen of that country). If this is the case, you would put the country you left upon immigrating to the US.

As for the second part of your question, you don't need to fill in the referee section for India if you are applying for a tourist visa. If, for some reason, they insist on you filling out this section, it should be fine if you list just the hotel. (Or, if you're staying at more than one hotel, list two of them.)