An e-visa is the one entry document that has to be in your hand before you leave India, because without it the airline will not board you. That is the whole difference between an e-visa and a visa on arrival, and it is why this page names the official government portal beside every fee. As at 27 August 2026 an Indian passport holder needs a pre-approved e-visa or online travel authorisation for more than forty countries, and for two of them the portal you would reach from a search result is not the government’s.
This guide is maintained by Zurich Kotak General Insurance, an IRDAI-registered general insurer in India and part of the Zurich Insurance Group.
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Last verified: 2026-08-27.
E-visa countries with a published fee and processing time
These are the countries where the government’s own portal states what it costs and how long it takes. Every domain in the table was confirmed live on 27 August 2026.
Rupee equivalents use 1 USD = INR 95.376 (XE, 26 August 2026). Where a fee is quoted in another currency it is given as the government publishes it, without a conversion, because no verified rate was held for it.
Country | Official portal | Fee | Processing | Validity and stay |
Azerbaijan | evisa.gov.az (ASAN Visa) | Approx USD 29 to 30 (approx INR 2,765 to 2,860) | 3 working days | 30-day stay, visa valid 90 days from issue, single entry |
Cambodia | USD 30, tourist Type T (approx INR 2,860) | No published service standard | 30-day stay, roughly 3 months to enter | |
Egypt | USD 30 single, USD 65 multiple (approx INR 2,860 and 6,200) | Apply at least 7 days ahead; no fixed standard | 30 days | |
Ethiopia | USD 62 for 30 days, USD 152 for 90 (approx INR 5,915 and 14,500) | 3 days | 30 or 90 days | |
Indonesia | IDR 500,000 (approx INR 2,690) | Online in advance, or paid at the arrival counter | 30-day stay, e-visa valid 90 days, single entry | |
Israel | israel-entry.piba.gov.il (eVisa-B2) | NIS 105, approx USD 28 (approx INR 2,670) | Not published | Up to 90 days at consular discretion |
Japan | Approx JPY 3,000 equivalent | Not published | Not published | |
Kenya | USD 30 flat (approx INR 2,860). Transit USD 20, one-year multiple USD 300, five-year USD 185 | 72 hours | 90 days | |
Laos | USD 50 for Indian nationals (approx INR 4,770), per the portal’s fee calculator | 3 working days | 30-day stay, letter valid 60 days | |
Morocco | www.acces-maroc.ma (the apex domain does not resolve; use the www host) | No fee published | 24 to 72 hours | 30 days |
Myanmar | USD 50 tourism, USD 70 business (approx INR 4,770 and 6,675) | Minimum 3 working days | 28-day stay, letter valid 90 days, single entry | |
Qatar | QAR 100, approx USD 27 (approx INR 2,575) on the Hayya A3 route | Not published | Not published | |
Russia | Not published | Lodge 40 to 4 days before your intended entry date. Not a last-minute option | 30 days | |
South Africa | ZAR 500, as reported when the fee was adopted on 17 August 2026 | Not published | 90 days per visit, one 90-day extension, multiple entry | |
Sri Lanka | Free for Indian nationals since 25 May 2026 (previously USD 20 at the SAARC rate) | About 3 business days on the overseas-mission channel | 30 days, double entry | |
Tanzania | USD 50 single, USD 100 multiple (approx INR 4,770 and 9,540) | Within 10 days | Up to 90 days | |
Thailand | About INR 3,000 single entry | About 3 to 7 working days | Up to 60 days | |
Uganda | USD 50 tourist (approx INR 4,770). The East Africa Tourist Visa at USD 100 covers Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda together | Not published | 90 days | |
Vietnam | evisa.gov.vn , and thithucdientu.gov.vn , which are the only two valid domains | USD 25 single, USD 50 multiple (approx INR 2,385 and 4,770) | Officially 5 to 30 working days; the embassy advises applying 7 to 40 working days ahead | Up to 90 days, single or multiple |
Zambia | USD 25 single, USD 40 double, USD 75 multiple. KAZA UniVisa USD 50 | Not published | 90-day stay per 12 months; KAZA 30 days | |
Zimbabwe | USD 30 single, USD 55 multiple (approx INR 2,860 and 5,245) | About 7 working days | 1 month single, 6 months multiple. Ordinary Indian passports do not have to pre-apply, so the e-visa here is optional pre-declaration |
E-visa required, portal confirmed, terms not published
These countries require an e-visa and their official portal is confirmed live, but the fee or the processing time is not published where it can be read. A blank here is deliberate. A number invented for a page is how a reader ends up paying a reseller five times the government fee.
Country | Official portal | What to know |
Albania | Live, but we could not trace it to a . gov.al page, so treat the ownership as unconfirmed and reach it from Albania’s own foreign ministry. Waived entirely for holders of a used multiple-entry Schengen visa or a Schengen residence permit | |
Armenia | A visa on arrival is also available to holders of certain other countries’ visas or residence permits | |
Bahrain | Run by the NPRA and cross-confirmed on bahrain.bh | |
Botswana | 3 months | |
Cuba | 90 days | |
Georgia | 30 days. Substituted entirely by a Schengen, US, UK, Japanese, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Israeli, South Korean, Irish or GCC visa or residence permit, which gives 90 days in any 180 | |
Ghana | gis.gov.gh , with the e-visa at evisa.immigration.gov.gh | Do not use ghanaimmigration.org . See the section below |
Jordan | The Jordan Pass, bought before arrival, waives the tourist visa fee on a stay of two nights or more and includes Petra entry | |
Kazakhstan | Indians are visa-free for 14 days, so the e-visa matters only for a longer stay. evisa.gov.kz and e-visa.gov.kz do not resolve at all. See the section below | |
Kyrgyzstan | 60 days. Flagged as a trap: an invitation letter from a tour company, costing at least USD 50, is demanded by email after the application. Entry is restricted to Manas and Osh airports and named land crossings | |
Malawi | 30 days | |
Moldova | Substituted by a Schengen, EU or UK C or D visa or residence permit for up to 90 days | |
Mozambique | 30 days | |
Nigeria | 30 days. Nigeria discontinued visa on arrival under its New Visa Policy 2025, implemented on 8 May 2025, so a pre-approved e-visa is now the only route. Pages still listing Nigeria under visa on arrival are wrong | |
Oman | evisa.rop.gov.om (Royal Oman Police) | The portal is login-gated, so nothing can be read off it without an account |
Papua New Guinea | 30 days | |
Philippines | Up to 59 days, but most Indian travellers will not need it: 14 days visa-free since 8 June 2025, or 30 days with a valid American, Japanese, Australian, Canadian, Schengen, Singapore or UK visa or residence permit | |
Serbia | welcometoserbia.gov.rs , e-visa at evisa.welcometoserbia.gov.rs | 90 days in any 180. Not needed at all if you hold a valid Schengen, UK, EU or US visa or residence permit |
Suriname | 90 days. This looks like a reseller and is not. gov.sr designates it as the official e-visa e-service | |
Tajikistan | 60 days. A colour passport scan is required and phone photographs are rejected | |
Turkey | visa.gov.tr , which resolves to konsolosluk.gov.tr | Conditional. The e-visa is open only to holders of a valid Schengen, US, UK or Ireland visa or residence permit; a plain Indian passport needs a sticker visa. And see the section below on what evisa.gov.tr now does |
Uzbekistan | 30 days |
Which online travel authorisations Indians can and cannot use
Pages routinely tell Indian readers to “just get an ETA” for countries where Indians are not eligible for one. Four of the best-known schemes are closed to Indian passport holders outright, one applies conditionally, and two are open.
Country | Can an Indian use the ETA? | The actual route | Fee |
Australia | No. India is not on the ETA subclass 601 eligible-passport list | Visitor visa subclass 600, through ImmiAccount. A transit visa is also required | Not published on the static page |
New Zealand | No. The NZeTA is for visa-waiver nationals only | Visitor Visa | From NZD 441 |
United Kingdom | No. India is a visa national, and the ETA guidance says plainly that other nationalities cannot get an ETA | Standard Visitor visa | GBP 135 for 6 months, GBP 506 for 2 years, GBP 903 for 5 years, GBP 1,128 for 10 years |
South Korea | No. K-ETA is only for nationals who can already enter Korea visa-free, and Indians cannot | Korea Visa Portal, visa.go.kr | Not published |
Canada | Conditionally. eTA-X applies only if you held a Canadian visitor visa in the past 10 years, or hold a valid US non-immigrant visa. Otherwise a TRV | canada.ca , IRCC | CAD 7 for the eTA |
Singapore | There is no consumer e-visa at all. Applications run through ICA online via a local contact with Singpass or Corppass, an authorised agent appointed by a Singapore Overseas Mission, or the Mission itself | Not published | |
Taiwan | Yes. India is explicitly named as eligible for the Travel Authority Certificate | Not published | |
Japan | Yes, for Indians since 1 April 2024. India residents lodge through Japan Visa Application Centres | Approx JPY 3,000 equivalent |
“Always use the official portal” is not enough advice
Two things happen to government visa domains that break the rule everyone repeats, and both were verified by direct probe on 27 August 2026.
Kazakhstan: the domain everyone remembers is dead, and a lookalike is thriving
evisa.gov.kz returns nothing at all. Neither does e-visa.gov.kz . Kazakhstan’s actual service is vmp.gov.kz , the Visa and Migration Web Portal. Meanwhile a near-identical .kz domain, one character from the dead government one, is live, healthy and belongs to a private travel agency in Almaty. Any page still sending readers to the old address is sending them into a search result where that agency ranks. If a Kazakh e-visa site is not vmp.gov.kz , it is not the government’s.
Turkey: the government domain hands you to a private company, and that is probably correct
On 27 August 2026, https://www.evisa.gov.tr/en/ returned an HTTP 302 redirect to https://dtvgroup.com.tr/ . The destination describes itself as delivering the Republic of Türkiye’s e-visa service through DTV Danışmanlık Aracılık Organizasyon A.Ş., which would be the same arrangement as a visa application centre operating on a government’s behalf.
We will not tell you that is a scam, because the evidence says it probably is not. We will not tell you the appointment is confirmed either, because the only source for it is the company’s own description of itself. What we can tell you is what the redirect does, and that Turkey’s consular route is separately live at visa.gov.tr , which resolves to konsolosluk.gov.tr . If the commercial address makes you uneasy, use the consular one.
Ghana: a plausible domain that returns HTTP 200 and is hostile
ghanaimmigration.org is still linked by travel sites as Ghana’s immigration service. It resolves, it returns a clean HTTP 200, and it serves a Japanese mail-order pharmacy. Ghana’s real immigration service is gis.gov.gh and its e-visa portal is evisa.immigration.gov.gh . A domain returning 200 proves only that something is answering.
So the rule that actually holds
Reach the portal from the destination country’s own foreign ministry or immigration homepage, not from a search result and not from a URL you remember. A list of domains, including the one on this page, starts rotting the day it is published. A government’s own homepage does not, and it is the only starting point that survives a domain dying, being sold, or being handed to an operator.
Two further tells worth knowing. If a site charges for something the government gives away, it is a reseller: Sri Lanka’s ETA is free for Indians, so any fee for it is markup. And where a government publishes a flat price, anything above it is markup too: Kenya’s eTA is USD 30, full stop.
What the governments themselves say
A regulator’s own words carry further than ours, and several publish warnings that name the problem exactly.
· Ethiopia, on its own portal, is the most direct anywhere: “We have come to know that there are some fraud websites which have similar look and feel with our official e-Visa website. Please note that the Ethiopian Government doesn’t have any agreement with the owners of those websites. Visa application submitted or payment made through these websites is not acceptable.” It then names seven impostor domains.
· Rwanda, on migration.gov.rw : “There is no single affiliated Agent that is authorised to apply for visa on your behalf. Such Agents may mislead you and charges more than the required visa fees.”
· Nigeria, on immigration.gov.ng : “Avoid third-party websites claiming to offer expedited approvals at extra cost.”
· Georgia: “The Ministry is not related to any private company offering services for submitting applications for Georgian e-Visa.”
· Vietnam’s embassy in India states in capitals that the portal operates on two domains and that all other websites are invalid. Tanzania’s embassy publishes a list of fake sites and tells applicants to use the official immigration website only.
One correction, because it cuts the other way: no official fake-site warning was found for Sri Lanka, Kenya, Egypt, Cambodia or New Zealand, despite all five being widely described as impersonation targets. We will not invent one. The fee-transparency lines above are stronger anyway.
Applying for an e-visa means the trip is real. By the time you are filling in a portal you have picked the dates and probably paid for the flights, which is the point at which a cancellation, a delayed bag or a hospital admission stops being hypothetical. International travel insurance from Zurich Kotak covers emergency medical treatment, evacuation, trip delay and baggage up to plan limits, and buying it takes less time than the visa form.
Before you start the application
Most e-visa rejections and delays come from the document, not the answers. Have these ready:
1. A passport valid at least six months beyond your intended entry, with two blank pages.
2. A colour scan of the passport bio page, from a scanner or a scanning app. Tajikistan rejects phone photographs of the passport, and it is not the only one.
3. A photograph to the destination’s specification. Sizes and background rules differ by country, and a wrong one is the commonest cause of a resubmission.
4. Confirmed flights and accommodation, because most portals ask for arrival dates and an address.
5. A card that works internationally, and the patience to try a second. Government payment gateways fail often, and a failed payment usually means starting the form again.
6. Time. Russia will not accept an application lodged fewer than 4 days before entry, and Vietnam’s embassy advises up to 40 working days.
If your application is already in, check visa status with a passport number covers the methods that work. The other two ways in are covered separately: visa-free countries for Indians for the destinations that need nothing at all, and visa on arrival countries for Indians for the ones where the visa is issued at the border.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between an e-visa and a visa on arrival?
Timing, and it is the difference that decides whether you fly. An e-visa must be approved online before you leave India, and the airline will refuse to board you without it. A visa on arrival is issued at a counter after you land, so you can book and travel with nothing but your passport. Getting the two the wrong way round is the single most expensive mistake on this subject.
Which countries require an e-visa for Indian passport holders?
More than forty, including Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Qatar, Serbia, Moldova and Cuba. Two names that often appear on lists like this do not belong on it: Australia runs no e-visa open to Indian passport holders, so the route is a visitor visa, and Kazakhstan is visa-free for Indians for 14 days, so its e-visa matters only for a longer stay. The tables on this page give the official portal for each, with the fee and processing time wherever a government publishes them.
How do I know I am on the official e-visa website?
Do not judge it by the domain and do not judge it by whether the page loads. Ghana’s widely-linked ghanaimmigration.org returns a clean HTTP 200 and serves a pharmacy spam site, Kazakhstan’s evisa.gov.kz is dead while a private lookalike thrives, and Turkey’s evisa.gov.tr redirects to a commercial operator that is probably legitimate. The reliable method is to start at the destination country’s own foreign ministry or immigration homepage and follow its link, rather than trusting a search result or a URL you remember.
Do Indians need an e-visa for Thailand?
At present, one of two things. Thailand is not visa-free for Indian passport holders: the 60-day exemption Indians held from 2024 was withdrawn by a Thai Cabinet decision of 2026-05-19, and an approved 30-day replacement is not in force until it is published in the Royal Gazette. Until then you either buy a 15-day visa on arrival at the airport for THB 2,000, or apply for a tourist e-visa at thaievisa.go.th for a stay of up to 60 days. The Thailand Digital Arrival Card is mandatory either way.
Can Indians get an ETA for the UK, Australia or New Zealand?
No, for all three. India is a visa national for the UK, and the UK ETA guidance says other nationalities cannot get an ETA. India is not on Australia’s ETA subclass 601 eligible-passport list, so the route is a subclass 600 visitor visa plus a transit visa. New Zealand’s NZeTA is for visa-waiver nationals only, so Indians need a Visitor Visa. Canada is the one partial exception: its eTA-X applies if you held a Canadian visitor visa in the past ten years or hold a valid US non-immigrant visa.
Is Sri Lanka’s ETA still free for Indians?
Yes. It has been free for Indian nationals since 25 May 2026, for 30 days and double entry, and it is obtained at eta.gov.lk before you arrive. Because it is free, any website charging you for a Sri Lankan ETA is a reseller adding its own markup to a government form that costs nothing.
Last verified: 2026-08-27. E-visa rules, fees and portal addresses change frequently and often without notice. Confirm your destination’s current position with its embassy, high commission or immigration authority before you book.
