All visitors coming to India need to have a visa. Visa exemptions are only available for citizens of Nepal and Bhutan. Citizens of all other countries who are traveling to India will have to file a visa application with the Indian embassy/consulate through a visa agency.
Indian embassies/consulates work with visa agencies to help process visas. When a person applies for a visa to India he will have to complete the visa application package with an external agency. The agency will review the application to make sure he has completed all of the appropriate fields of the application. The visa agency, in no way, helps with the official processing in granting or denying the visa.
As a rule the Indian embassy will not grant a new tourist visa if the visa applicant has been to India within the last two months. There must be at least a two-month gap period between visits before she will be granted another visa.
All visa applicants will be required to submit documentation to the visa agency that will in turn be submitted to the Indian embassy/consulate. The required documentation includes a visa application form, additional passport photos, a valid national passport and any supporting documents that may be requested.
The supporting documentation will vary depending on the type of visa for which the applicant is applying. If the applicant is applying for a work or study visa, he will be required to provide documentation that shows his work contract or school acceptance letter. If the applicant is applying for a tourist visa, the supporting documentation will be information that proves that he has strong ties in his home country. This helps prove to Indian immigration that the visa applicant intends on leaving India prior to the expiration date of the visa.
The cost of an India visa depends on the length of the visa. This number may increase when filing through a visa agency as they have additional fees that they charge to process the visa application.
