{"id":853683,"date":"2026-08-13T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853683\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:56:12","slug":"karan-aujla-visa-confusion-leaves-punjabi-megastars-australian-tour-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853683\/","title":{"rendered":"Karan Aujla: Visa confusion leaves Punjabi megastar\u2019s Australian tour in limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Punjabi sensation Karan Aujla\u2019s Australian tour<\/a> hangs in the balance after a visa<\/a> debacle, which his team claims is a wild case of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n

The visa delay has forced the postponement of his opening shows, with the artist\u2019s management claiming Australian<\/a> authorities have confused the star with an alleged Canadian<\/a> criminal with an identical name.<\/p>\n

\"Aujla<\/p>\n

Aujla was set to start the Australian leg of his tour this week.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

His team alleges Australian border authorities have mixed up the 29-year-old artist with another man of the same name living in Canada, who was arrested two years ago for alleged extortion and firearms offences.<\/p>\n

The rapper lives on the other side of Canada in British Columbia and is an entirely different age to the alleged offender.<\/p>\n

In a statement his manager has told 9News, the confusion has left him stressed over the past few days.<\/p>\n

\u201cShows have been cancelled or postponed\u2026 and we\u2019re losing a significant amount of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karan Aujla was meant to kick off the Australian leg of his tour in Perth<\/a> at RAC Arena on Thursday night, but that show has since been moved to August 24.<\/p>\n

The situation came days after Indian actor and filmmaker Mohanlal was unable to enter Sydney<\/a> for a Malayalam stage show because his visa was not approved in time in an unrelated situation, leaving him stranded in Singapore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NSW<\/a> Music<\/a> Minister John Graham says he is willing to intervene with the Federal Government over the visa delays, with Aujla scheduled to perform at Sydney\u2019s Afterpay Arena next Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want fans disappointed, we\u2019ve got some of the best acts coming out to tour NSW.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the confusion has seemingly thrown the future of Aujla\u2019s tour into limbo, Live Nation continues to advertise his shows in Adelaide<\/a>, Melbourne<\/a>, Sydney, and Brisbane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nine.com.au has reached out to the Home Affairs Office for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Punjabi sensation Karan Aujla\u2019s Australian tour hangs in the balance after a visa debacle, which his team claims…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-853683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}