Tourist e-Visa in India

  • The Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) facility India e-Visa.
  • ETA is issued for tourism, visiting friends and family, short duration medical treatment and business visits. 
  •  e-Visa with three subcategories: e-Tourist Visa, e-Business Visa, and e-Medical Visa. 
  • An application for e-Visa must be made at least four calendar days in advance of the date of arrival and can be made as early as 120 days in advance. 
  • The visa is valid for 60 calendar days from the date of arrival and can be obtained three times in a calendar year. 
  • Double entry is permitted on e-Tourist Visa and e-Business Visa. 
  • Triple entry is permitted on e-Medical Visa. 
  • The duration of stay cannot be extended.
  • The e-Visa fees are divided into four slabs of zero, US$25, US$80 and US$100, depending on nationality (based on reciprocity; see table below and notes), plus a bank fee of 2.5% of the visa fee. e-Visa allows arrival at the following 26 airports and 5 seaports:
Airports
Ahmedabad
Amritsar
Bagdogra
Bengaluru
Chandigarh
Chennai
Coimbatore
Delhi
Gaya
Goa
Guwahati
Hyderabad
Jaipur
Kochi
Kolkata
Kozhikode
Lucknow
Madurai
Mangaluru
Mumbai
Nagpur
Pune
Thiruvananthapuram
Tiruchirappalli
Varanasi
Visakhapatnam



Seaports
Cochin
Goa
Mangalore
Mumbai
Chennai

Citizens of the following countries and territories who hold ordinary passports are eligible to obtain the e-Visa

European UnionAll European Union citizens[14]
 Albania
 Andorra
 Angola
 Antigua and Barbuda
 Argentina3
 Armenia
 Australia
 Azerbaijan
 Bahamas
 Barbados
 Belize
 Bolivia
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Botswana
 Brazil
 Brunei
 Burundi
 Cambodia
 Cameroon
 Canada
 Cape Verde
 Chile
 China
 Colombia
 Comoros
 Costa Rica
 Cote D'Ivoire
 Cuba
 Djibouti
 Dominica
 Dominican Republic
 Ecuador
 El Salvador Eritrea
 Eswatini
 Fiji3
 Gabon
 Gambia
 Georgia
 Ghana
 Grenada
 Guatemala
 Guinea
 Guyana
 Haiti
 Honduras
 Hong Kong
 Iceland
 Indonesia3
 Iran
 Israel
 Jamaica3
 Japan2
 Jordan
 Kazakhstan
 Kenya
 Kiribati3
 Kyrgyzstan
 Laos
 Lesotho
 Liberia
 Liechtenstein
 Macau
 Macedonia
 Madagascar
 Malawi
 Malaysia
 Mali
 Marshall Islands3
 Mauritius3
 Mexico
 Micronesia3
 Moldova
 Monaco
 Mongolia
 Montenegro
 Mozambique1
 Myanmar3
 Namibia
 Nauru3
 New Zealand
  •  Cook Islands3
  •  Niue3
 Nicaragua
 Niger
 Norway
 Oman
 Palau3
 Palestine
 Panama
 Papua New Guinea3
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Philippines
 Qatar
 Russia1
 Rwanda
 Saint Kitts and Nevis
 Saint Lucia
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 Samoa3 San Marino
 Senegal
 Serbia
 Seychelles3
 Sierra Leone
 Singapore2
 Solomon Islands3
 South Africa3
 South Korea
 Sri Lanka2
 Suriname
  Switzerland
 Taiwan
 Tajikistan
 Tanzania
 Thailand
 Timor-Leste
 Tonga3
 Trinidad and Tobago
 Tuvalu3
 Uganda
 Ukraine1
 United Arab Emirates
 United States1
 Uruguay3
 Uzbekistan
 Vanuatu3
  Vatican City
 Venezuela
 Vietnam
 Zambia
 Zimbabwe

Note: As of June 2018, the visa fee for citizens of:

  1. countries with mark "1", and the UK is US$100
  2. countries with mark "2" is US$25
  3. countries with mark "3" is US$0
  4. countries without any mark (except the UK) is US$80

cost of visa application

Visa applications can be submitted in person or sent by post to an Indian consulate. It can also be submitted to designated Visa service provider in certain countries.
Costs differ per consulate and region. Some visa-handling services charge a small fee in addition, to check that completed application form meets all requirements and submit the documents on the applicant's behalf.
 Citizens of the following countries do not pay a visa fee – Argentina, Cook Islands, Fiji, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Myanmar, Nauru, Niue Island, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Island, South Africa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uruguay and Vanuatu.