Chinese Army veteran, Wang Qi was captured on the Indian side of the border in 1963 after the Indo-China war in 1962.

Said to be a surveyor for the People's Liberation Army, (PLA), Wang Qi spent close to six years in jails in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.

After his release, he came to Tirodi town in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district. He also married a local woman and had three children. People in the town also gave him the name ‘Raj Bahadur’.

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With families in two different countries, he would travel back and forth to see them. In 2017, he went to China but was back in 2018 to see his children. Wang Qi's son Vishnu Wang says that he has not been issued a visa by India after he left for China in October, 2018.

And the fight to reunite with his family started since then. "My father applied for a visa with the Indian embassy in Beijing in April this year but was unable to get the same for reasons better known to the authorities," Vishnu Wang had told PTI from Tirodi.

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Now, in 2019, he has been granted a visa to visit his family in India, officials said on Wednesday.

Wang Qi was staying at a hotel in China's Shaanxi province, close to the village where the families of his two brothers and sisters live. "He had to travel 1200 km to Beijing for updates on his visa renewal," his son said.