Many people are attracted to India due to its magnificent features, culture, and architecture. However many foreign individuals face different challenges in the process of acquiring visas. We have provided details about the E-visa scheme of India which is electronically linked to the passport of an individual. This scheme has been launched to lessen the burden upon the Indian embassy.
Indian ports that can be entered through E-visa
- A total of 25 airports and 5 seaports accept E-visa, which include:
- Ahmedabad (Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport),
- Amritsar (Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport),
- Bagdogra (Bagdogra International Airport),
- Bengaluru (Kempegowda International Airport),
- Bhubaneswar (Biju Patnaik International Airport),
- Calicut (Calicut International Airport),
- Chennai (Chennai International Airport),
- Chandigarh (Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport, Chandigarh),
- Cochin (Cochin International Airport),
- Coimbatore (Coimbatore International Airport),
- Delhi (Indira Gandhi International Airport),
- Gaya (Gaya International Airport),
- Goa (Goa International Airport),
- Guwahati(Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport),
- Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi International Airport),
- Jaipur (Jaipur International Airport),
- Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport),
- Lucknow (Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport),
- Madurai (Madurai Airport),
- Mangalore (Mangaluru International Airport),
- Mumbai (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport),
- Nagpur (Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport),
- Port Blair (Veer Savarkar International Airport),
- Pune (Pune International Airport),
- Tiruchirapalli (Tiruchirappalli International Airport),
- Varanasi (Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Varanasi), Visakhapatnam (Visakhapatnam Airport).
And the Seaports that accept E-visas are Cochin, Goa, New Mangalore, Mumbai, and Chennai.
But they can exit from India through any authorized Immigration Check post in India.
Individuals from more than 160 countries and territories can apply for an E-visa, E-medical visa, or an E-business visa depending on the purpose of your visit to India. Even in the case of minors, it is necessary to have E-visas acquired for every individual as an E-visa is linked with the passports of a traveller.
The validity period of E-visa
Depending on the category of E-visa you have applied for, the number of days you can stay in India is set. The e-tourist visa is valid for thirty days, a year, or five years depending on the type you apply for. An e-medical visa holder is authorized to Triple Entry for 60 days in Total. The e-business visa is authorized as a Multiple Entry visa and is valid for one year after being issued.
After entering India you may be required to provide other supporting documents like a yellow fever vaccination card for those travelling from yellow fever-affected countries, depending on the country you transit from.
