India e-Tourist Visa: 30-Day, One-Year and Five-Year Options

The e-Tourist visa is the standard visa for a holiday in India, a visit to friends or family, a short yoga programme, a short course of up to six months that does not lead to a qualification, or short voluntary work. It is applied for entirely online and issued as an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) by email, which an immigration officer converts into a visa stamp on arrival.

The three validities: - 30-day e-Tourist visa: 30 days from arrival, listed by the portal as multiple entry within that period, non-extendable and non-convertible - One-year e-Tourist visa: 365 days from the date the ETA is granted, multiple entry, maximum 180 days in India per calendar year - Five-year e-Tourist visa: five years from the date of grant, multiple entry, maximum 180 days in India per calendar year

The one-year and five-year clocks start on the date of grant, not the date you travel, so applying 120 days early costs you four months of a one-year visa. The 180-day cap is expressed by the portal per calendar year rather than per visit; the ETA you receive states the conditions that apply to you, and it is the ETA that immigration enforces.

Fees (official schedule dated 9 July 2026, in US dollars): For most nationalities the 30-day visa is US$25, or US$10 for arrivals in April, May and June; the one-year visa is US$40; and the five-year visa is US$200. The five-year fee is US$160 for United States passports and US$484 for United Kingdom passports (and for Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man). Japanese and Sri Lankan passports pay US$25 at every validity. The 30-day visa is free for South African, Philippine and Malaysian passports, and Russian passports pay nothing for a 30-day visa with arrival between July and March. The visa is gratis at every validity for Indonesia, Argentina, Myanmar, Mauritius, Fiji, Jamaica, Uruguay, Mongolia, Seychelles, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. A 3% bank charge is added to every paid fee, and the fee is non-refundable whether the ETA is granted or refused.

Timing: You may apply from 120 days before arrival and no later than four days before. The portal publishes no processing standard; most ETAs arrive within days, but a rejected photo or scan resets the clock, so allow a week.

Where you can enter: The ETA is valid for arrival only at the designated immigration checkposts: the portal's list of airports includes Delhi, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Goa (Dabolim and Mopa), Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Jaipur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Pune, Nagpur, Coimbatore, Guwahati, Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar, Port Blair, Kannur, Calicut, Mangalore, Madurai, Trichy, Visakhapatnam, Surat, Indore, Vijayawada, Bhopal, Tirupati, Gaya and Bagdogra, plus 38 seaports and 12 land checkposts (Attari, Raxaul, Rupaidiha, Jogbani, Darranga, Agartala, Gede, Ghojadanga, Haridaspur, Jaigaon, Dawki and Moreh). You may leave from any immigration checkpost.

Who is excluded: Anyone holding a Pakistani passport or of Pakistani origin, meaning either parent or grandparent was born in or was a permanent resident of Pakistan; holders of diplomatic, official or laissez-passer documents; and anyone endorsed on a parent's or spouse's passport, since every traveller including a child needs their own passport. Nationalities not on the fee schedule (among them China, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Iraq) must use the regular visa.