Her return has been delayed because Ms Stewart needs an exit visa to leave India.

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His papers were confiscated (he had, as a precaution, eaten his Chinese exit visa), and the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security blacklisted him.

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He got enough money for their trip to the United States, and sent his parents a telegram to make sure that they could get an exit visa.

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In February Ms Sanchez, who writes the prize-winning blog Generacion Y, was denied a request for an exit visa to travel abroad, for the 19th time.

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By her own account Sanchez has on some 20 occasions been rejected for the much-detested exit visa that for decades was required of all islanders seeking to go abroad.

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