{"id":36593,"date":"2023-07-29T07:21:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T01:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=36593"},"modified":"2025-04-21T23:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:42:39","slug":"what-is-a-stapled-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-stapled-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a stapled visa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is a Stapled Visa?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Why does China issue Stapled Visas?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What does China Claim?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Way Forward<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India withdrew its 8-athlete wushu contingent from the Summer World University Games, after China issued stapled visas to 3 athletes from the team who belong to Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is a Stapled Visa?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A stapled visa is simply <strong>an unstamped piece of paper<\/strong> that is attached by a pin or staples to a page of the passport and can be torn off or detached at will<\/li>\n<li><strong>This is different from a regular visa<\/strong> that is affixed to the passport by the issuing authority and stamped.<\/li>\n<li>China has made it a practice to issue stapled visas to Indian nationals from <strong>Arunachal Pradesh and J&amp;K<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It says the visas are valid documents, but the <strong>Government of India has consistently refused to accept this position.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s long-standing and consistent position is that there should be <strong>no discrimination or differential treatment<\/strong> based on domicile or ethnicity in the visa regime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why does China issue Stapled Visas?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Passports, visas, and other kinds of immigration controls <strong>reiterate the idea of a nation-state and its sovereignty<\/strong> which is inalienable and inviolable.<\/li>\n<li>A passport and visa entitle their holders to travel freely and under legal protection across international borders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>China disputes<\/strong> India\u2019s unequivocal and internationally accepted sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>Hence, they started the practice of issuing \u2018stapled\u2019 visas (since 2005-06) to all Indian citizens from Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>The stapled visas for J&amp;K residents appear to have started around 2008-09.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What does China Claim?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/E1FtA1NACWg2W3Wa0pgHYBc_SRdgBcfXStHq34JERPVoXoU94sE-KxU_vAHVfnTpWHxh6DUKv-DJXzFxU1d4eWLwkZZ8jkC0iHGydFDOsAggfG-4qh4-3JR-iEr5g3bqp5ubSJdvB6DSPrMq612nVvI\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It challenges the legal status of the McMahon Line<\/strong>, the boundary between Tibet and British India that was agreed at the Convention Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet at the <strong>Simla Convention of 1914<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is this disagreement that lies at the heart of Chinese claims over the position of the <strong>Line of Actual Control (LAC)<\/strong>, and its repeated transgressions into Indian territory, undermining the sovereignty of India over parts of Indian territory.<\/li>\n<li>China claims <strong>some 90,000 sq km of Arunachal Pradesh<\/strong> as its territory.\n<ul>\n<li>It calls the area \u201c<strong>Zangnan<\/strong>\u201d in the Chinese language and makes repeated references to \u201c<strong>South Tibet<\/strong>\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese maps show Arunachal Pradesh as part of China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Way Forward:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Diplomatic engagement: <\/strong>To prevent misconceptions or a rise in strain in relations, it is essential to keep lines of communication open.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India should underline its strength and power: <\/strong>Asserting its position at the negotiating table and emphasising that India is ready to protect its interests<\/li>\n<li><strong>Development of border infrastructure: <\/strong>Construction of border infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, can enable both nations access isolated areas and lessen the likelihood of confusion or conflicts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the Shimla Agreement?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Shimla Agreement, was a peace treaty signed between India and Pakistan on 2 July 1972 in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. It followed the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, which began after India intervened in East Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) The Line of Actual Control (LAC) is divided into how many sectors?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The LAC is generally divided into three sectors: the western sector in Ladakh on the Indian side, the middle sector in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and the eastern sector (generally follows the McMahon Line) in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/everyday-explainers\/stapled-visa-meaning-china-issue-arunachal-jammu-kashmir-8864788\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is a stapled visa, and why does China issue these to Indians from Arunachal and J&amp;K?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stapled visa is simply an unstamped piece of paper that is attached by a pin or staples to a page of the passport and can be torn off or detached at will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}