Visa Information

What is VISA ?

Visa is an declaration of support on a passport indicating that the holder is allowed to enter, leave, or stay for a specified period of time in a country.  In other words Visa is a support on an identification showing that the holder is permitted to enter, leave, or remain for a predetermined timeframe in a nation.

There are two types of Visa facility; first is kind of ‘Advance Visa’ and second is ‘Visa on arrival’, one another is ‘e-Visa’ facility also. So for Indian travellers, most countries are providing ‘Visa on arrival’ rather than ‘Visa not required’ facility. Obviously ‘Visa on arrival’ facility makes the procedure very easy but both are different thing.

For obtaining a visa on arrival, visitors would typically need to furnish return flight tickets, proof of hotel reservations, evidence of sufficient funds to cover their stay, passport sized photographs, a passport with adequate empty pages and the money for fee if required by the country.

We also provide the facility of visa on arrival to many countries and now plan is to extend this to about many countries soon. Visa on arrival scheme in other countries allowed tourist to land and then get visa but in Indian case it created a lot of confusion.

An eVisa is an official document issued online by the Immigration Department that allows a foreigner to enter and travel.

An eVisa is an alternative to a paper-based visa issued by the embassy. Instead of applying for visa at the embassy, the Immigration Department has now launched an e-VISA program, which enables you to apply for a visa online.

To obtain an eVisa, applicants must submit relevant personal information and pay the required fee by credit card (MasterCard or Visa) or paypal. The eVisa will be issued after the submitted information has been assessed and found to meet relevant criteria.

When an eVisa application has been approved, the visa issuance system will send a notice to the applicant for a link to download and print the eVisa. You are required to present this eVisa at the immigration checkpoint for verification upon your arrival.


E VISA

An electronic visa can refer to the application process to  get a visa, or even the visa itself. In most cases, the process for an  electronic visa application can be completed online, instead of having  to appear, or mail documents, to the consulate of a foreign nation. In other cases, it is possible that a visa may be a  card, perhaps with a magnetic stripe, that can provide vital  information about a traveler.

Though they just beginning to gain popularity, an electronic visa may  soon take the place of a more traditional visa. Visas are usually  needed to gain entry into a country. Some countries may require visas be  applied for ahead of the trip. Other countries may issue an entry visa  at the point of entry into the country, which is usually an airport or  border crossing. In most cases, visas are stamped into a passport and  normally state the maximum amount of time the holder is allowed to  remain in the country.

An electronic visa may be paper or plastic. In some cases, the  procedure for applying for an online visa will be completed online and  sent electronically to a processing office. If the visa is granted, a  document may be e-mailed back to the requestor. This document will often  serve as the visa needed to gain entry into the country. It should be  kept with the passport at all times, when traveling to or in the  country.

E-visa is short for electronic visa. E visa is an official document which is issued by the Immigration Department to allow international passengers to enter and travel across a nation.

Visa on arrival is the authorized document issued by the Immigration Department with the permission for foreigners to stay or transit at its country. Plus, you can pick up the visa at the airport.

Each country will have different objectives for E-Visa and Visa on arrival.

For example, according to Vietnam policy:

If you apply for E-visa, you can travel to Vietnam by air, sea or by land meanwhile you can only travel by aviation if you apply for a Visa on arrival.

With Vietnam Visa on arrival, travelers can stay maximum 3 months and choose to apply for single entry or multiple entry visa. However, with an E-visa, traveler can only stay 30 days maximum and single entry only.

Eligible citizens going for recreation/tourism purposes have the choice to apply for an Indian visa on the web, and have their visa conceded electronically. The candidate needs to give all data on the web and he/she will get the authorization to go by email inside 72 hours. At the point when the Indian government executed this new electronic process, they called it Electronic Travel Authority (ETA), and in light of the fact that the visa sticker was put inside the voyager's international ID at the airplane terminal upon landing to India, the application shape additionally alluded to this procedure as 'Visa on Arrival'. This could befuddle to explorers; it is essential to comprehend that the visa must be connected for and affirmed before heading out to India. This is impossible basically upon entry.

The terminology of the 'Estimated time of arrival' conspire in India was misdirecting. There were a few examples of vacationers flying into India, just to be approached by the movement experts for their e-visa. Recently, the home ministry had guided authorities to grant visas to such tourists on the spot and save them unnecessary inconvenience.

So the official name for this procedure has changed to 'e-Tourist Visa (eTV)

Difference between an E-visa and a Visa on arrival :

E-visa is the abbreviation form of Electronic Visa. If you acquire an E-visa, that means your visa to the country that you apply for it will be sent to your valid email that you have provided when you complete the application form online. You received the visa before you enter the country.

Besides, visa on arrival is the visa that allows you to get your visa just as soon as you arrive at their international airport, particularly at the Immigration Counter. Then, there you will have your visa to enter the country.

Visa on arrival:

visa on arrival" actually has two different meanings depending on the country, so check before you go.

• In  some countries it means you get there, apply, and pay for a visa 
• In some countries it means that you need to apply beforehand online or via the embassy, get a confirmation of some sort, and your visa will be waiting for you at the airport when you arrive.

Be  also aware that some countries do not have visa on arrival at all  border checkpoints. In particular if you arrive by land or sea  double-check to make sure visa on arrival is in fact available at the  specific checkpoint you plan to enter.

How the visa on arrival works:

If you ever thought of going to Vietnam, here is how the visa on arrival works.

You can apply for Vietnam visa on arrival using a travel agency in order to assist you to get a Vietnam approval letter in the Vietnamese Department of Immigration.

Normally, after obtaining the Vietnam letter of approval, the agency will send you by email, along with your data also will be transmitted to Immigration checkpoints in Vietnam international airports.

When you land at the airport, the Immigration officers will verify your approval letter. You're also required to fill in the Vietnam visa form with photo attached and pay the stamping fee as well. The Vietnam entry visa will be stamped on your passport.

Visa on Arrival for foreigners coming to India 
see direct link to Govt. of India website 

 Visa on arrival or E-visa for Indian Citizens
 Apply for Visa on Govt. of India official website