India Visa Types
Best SAME DAY offers applicants a safe and secure platform to apply for all the e visas issued by the Indian government. From this platform, you can apply for a tourist e visa, business e visa, medical e visa, medical attendant e visa, and the e conference visa. Please find all the information you need for any one of them below.
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India Tourist e Visa
A tourist e visa is an electronic visa issued to persons interested in visiting India as tourists.
This e visa is available in different forms; we have the single-entry e visa, which allows you to stay in the country for up to 30 days, but you must apply for it at least 4-30 days before your arrival.
Then there are the Multiple entry options valid for one year and five years, allowing you to stay for up to 6 months, but you must apply for it at least 4-120 days before your arrival.
The five-year multiple entry e visa for tourism also allows you to stay up to 6 months and must be obtained 4-120 days before your trip.
Both multiple-entry visas can be used to visit India several times a year as long as they are valid.
To get this visa, you must provide documents to prove that you have what it takes to cover your living and traveling expenses.
If you have a valid visa in your old passport, this visa is still valid for entry. You have to bring your old passport along with your new passport and earlier granted valid e-Visa (ETA) document with you. Please do not apply if you have a valid visa in any other passport. Your application will be rejected. If your passport with Indian visa was lost, and you are applying with a new passport, please let us know India E-visas must be obtained prior to travel to India. No documents need to be mailed to Best Sameday for processing. You will receive an Electronic Travel Authority by e-mail. Biometric details will be taken upon arrival in India.
NOTE: E-visa is not available to Diplomatic/Official Passport or Laissez-passer travel document holders as well as International Travel Document Holders.
India Tourist e Visa Validity
The tourist e visa is valid for 30 days, 12 months, and 5 years respectively, depending on the one you go for.
India Tourist e Visa Validity
It takes up to 3 days to process your documents for this e-visa.
Port of Entry
You can only use the e visa to enter India by sea or air. Here is a list of airports and seaports in approved cities.
. Amristar – Ahmedabad – Bagdogra – Bhubaneswar – Bengaluru – Chennai – Coimbatore – Chandigarh – Delhi – Goa – Guwahati - Gaya –Jaipur – Hyderabad – Kochi – Kolkata – Kannur – Lucknow – Kozhikode – Madurai – Mumbai – Mangaluru – Nagpur – Port Blair – Pune – Varanasi – Thiruvananthapuram – Varanasi – Tiruchirappalli – Cochin – Visakhapatnam
Fill out India Tourist e-visa application form online and provide digital copies of the following documents:
01. Passport copy. A clear scan of the photo page and information pages of your valid, signed passport. The passport must also have 2 remaining blank pages upon arrival in India.
02. Passport-type photograph. Must be uploaded to your applicant profile.
Additional information
Former Indian Nationals that have been Naturalized must provide copy of stamped Renunciation Form or Deemed Surrender Certificate in order to apply.
- Travelers must enter at one of the following airports: Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Calicut, Chennai, Chandigarh, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gaya, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Tiruchirapalli, Trivandrum, Varanasi & Vishakhapatnam or seaports: Cochin, Goa, Mangalore, Mumbai, Chennai. However, travelers can exit from any of the authorized Immigration Check Posts (ICPs) in India.
- For journalists, writers, photographers, designers, and those who work with media; regardless of purpose in India, must apply for a Journalist Visa.
India Tourist e-visa fees for citizens of United States of America
Type of visa | Validity | Processing | Embassy fee |
|---|---|---|---|
Single entry | up to 30 days | 3-5 business days | 27.00 USD |
Multiple entry (180 days stay) | up to 1 year | 5 business days | 43.00 USD |
Multiple entry (90 days stay) | up to 5 year | 3-5 business days | 83.00 USD |
