The Foreigners’ Regional Registration Office (FRRO) should set its house in order and forthwith stop being quixotic in granting extension of medical visa or medical attendant visa to foreigners, said the High Court of Karnataka on noticing that the visa of a Yemen national was extended multiple times without verifying medical records.
The court also directed that the FRRO should enquire into communications issued by hospitals recommending medical visa, medical attendant visa, or extension of these visas and to ensure that the hospitals are not hand in glove with the foreign citizens.
However, the court made it clear that care should be taken that genuine cases do not suffer in the process of verification of medical records.
