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British-American queer icon and personage manner decorator Tanveer Wasim Safdar. (Source: tanfrance/Instagram)
The Delhi High Court connected Monday refused to entertain a plea by British-American queer icon and personage manner decorator Tanveer Wasim Safdar, popularly known arsenic Tan France, seeking absorption to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to expeditiously process and assistance him a tourer visa wrong a stipulated time.
France applied for an Indian tourer visa successful San Francisco connected September 12 for attending “professional and taste engagements”, intending to “facilitate interactions with salient figures successful the Indian cinema and manner industries, arsenic good arsenic to enactment successful important taste exchanges with section Indian creator communities, allowing him to summation a broad knowing of the affluent and divers creator traditions that specify India’s taste landscape,” his petition states.
His visa exertion has been pending for implicit 5 weeks. Although France holds dual citizenship successful the UK and the USA, helium has Pakistani origins, arsenic his parents are of Pakistani descent and aboriginal acquired British citizenship.
France besides argued earlier the tribunal of Justice Sanjeev Narula that helium has repeatedly inquired done authoritative channels since applying for the visa but has received nary effect connected the reasons for the hold oregon the estimated clip framework wrong which a determination connected the visa whitethorn beryllium expected.
France has planned a sojourn to India successful the week commencing November 11. He changeable to planetary prominence and was besides nominated for an Emmy Award on with others pursuing his relation arsenic a manner adept connected Netflix’s ‘Queer Eye’.
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