{"id":151837,"date":"2025-09-07T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151837"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:46:20","slug":"sri-lankan-tamils-not-eligible-for-long-term-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/09\/07\/sri-lankan-tamils-not-eligible-for-long-term-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Tamils not eligible for long-term visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"person-name lnk\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/profile\/author\/Vijaita-Singh-681\/\">Vijaita Singh<\/a> Courtesy The Hindu<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Although last week\u2019s Home Ministry order removes the tag of an \u2018illegal migrant\u2019 from registered Sri Lankan Tamil nationals who entered India before January 9, 2015, it will not immediately help in grant of Indian citizenship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Undocumented Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who were exempted from penal provisions by a Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) order last week are not eligible to apply for long-term visas (LTV), a senior government official told\u00a0<em>The Hindu<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijaita Singh Courtesy The Hindu Although last week\u2019s Home Ministry order removes the tag of an \u2018illegal migrant\u2019 from registered Sri Lankan Tamil nationals who entered India before January 9, 2015, it will not immediately help in grant of Indian citizenship Undocumented Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who were exempted from penal provisions by a Union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151838,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151837\/revisions\/151838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}