Ministry Of External Affairs — immigration officers unprofessional and nasty behaviour

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I travelled from hyderabad to singapore on oct 7th, 2019 by mi 473 onwards to guangzhou, china by sq 850 on oct 8th, 2019 (Tomorrow). Time the incident occurred: between 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm. International departures/immigration area @ rgia.

I would like to report the most unprofessional, intemperate and ignorant behaviour of the immigration officer mr. Chowdhary posted to rajiv gandhi international airport at hyderabad. First, he did not display his name tag. Second, he seems quite ignorant about immigration procedures. My chinese visa is valid until oct 11th and my date of travel was oct 7th. Mr. Chowdhary asked me when i was returning back. I said october 27th.

He refused to process my passport asking me to meet the airline staff who issued the boarding pass! I asked him three times, what the matter was. All he said was: “meet the airline staff”. And quite brusquely asked a civil clothes person assisting in the area to take me away! I was shocked beyond belief that mr chowdhary did not have the courtesy to explain to me what the issue was and why i had to go to the airline staff!

Apparently, i quickly understood how ignorant this officer was! His belief was that i must “return back to india” before october 11th-the validity stuck in the visa. Little does he know that a visa is good until the very last day of the visa stamped in the passport. What matters is that i must “leave” the country i am visiting within the 30-day visitor’s visa.

Mr chowdhary needs an education on simple yet important matters. I wasted about 45 mins.in the process - which could have been avoided entirely. Had i not been 2-3 hours early, i could have well missed my flights and all my business engagements would have been affected. Needless to say, such irresponsible behaviour must be nipped in the bud.

Please investigate the matter.