India’s ‘Tourist Visa on Arrival’ needs planning

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By News Desk

Melbourne: It sounds good to land in a country and gets the entry visa at the airport. One cannot but appreciate such a facility. As the name suggests India’s ‘Tourist Visa on Arrival’ introduced last year and applicable to 45 countries including Australia, is exactly not what it sounds to be though the visa is finally stamped at an Indian airport.
Answering to a question at the Incredible India Road Show recently by SAT, Mr. Girish Shankar, Additional Secretary Ministry of Tourism said, “to obtain the ‘Tourist Visa on Arrival’ at an Indian airport, one has to carry an ‘Electronic Travel Authorisation’ (ETA). One has to in advance apply online at https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/tvoa.html with a recent photograph and the photo page of the passport uploaded and pay $ 60 fees.”
The process will generate an ‘Electronic Travel Authorisation’ (ETA) which will come in the applicants email within 72 hours.
“The online application should be submitted minimum 4 days in advance and maximum 30 days of proposed date of travel,” says an Indian Tourism brochure.
This 30 days visa is a single entry visa and is not extended. One can have such visas two times in a year only.
Once a tourist lands at an authorised airport and presents the ETA a visa is stamped on the passport after mandatory biometric details are taken.
For 24×7 assistance phone +91-11-24300666 or E-mail: indiatvoa@gov.in
For tourism information: incredibleindia.com

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Neeraj Nanda

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