{"id":46116,"date":"2025-04-25T17:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=46116"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:58:54","slug":"saarc-visa-exemption-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/saarc-visa-exemption-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Indian government recently announced that Pakistani nationals will not be permitted to travel to India under the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES).<\/p>\n<h2>About SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The SVES was launched in 1992.<\/li>\n<li>Under the scheme,\u00a0<strong>certain categories of dignitaries from SAARC countries<\/strong>\u00a0are\u00a0<strong>issued a special travel document.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This special instrument\u00a0<strong>exempts them from the need for visas and other travelling documents <\/strong>to travel among these countries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Currently<\/strong>, the list includes\u00a0<strong>24 categories of entitled persons,<\/strong>\u00a0which include\u00a0<strong>dignitaries, judges\u00a0<\/strong>of higher courts,\u00a0<strong>parliamentarians,<\/strong>\u00a0senior officials,\u00a0<strong>businessmen, journalists, sportspersons<\/strong>, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Visa stickers are\u00a0<strong>issued by the respective member states to the entitled categories of that particular country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>validity\u00a0<\/strong>of the visa sticker is generally\u00a0<strong>for one year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The implementation is\u00a0<strong>reviewed regularly by the immigration authorities<\/strong>\u00a0of SAAR member states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is SAARC?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)\u00a0<\/strong>was established on December 8, 1985.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0SAARC is an\u00a0<strong>economic and political regional organisation<\/strong>\u00a0of countries in\u00a0<strong>South Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Secretariat\u00a0<\/strong>of the Association was set up in\u00a0<strong>Kathmandu, Nepal<\/strong>, in January 1987.<\/li>\n<li>SAARC has eight member countries \u2014\u00a0<strong>Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>SAARC aims to accelerate the process of economic and social development in its member states through increased intra-regional cooperation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/what-is-saarc-visa-exemption-scheme\/article69485597.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES), certain categories of dignitaries from SAARC countries are issued a special travel document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,263,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-46116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-saarc-visa-exemption-scheme-sves","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46116","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}