Your worry-free India visa

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Do you need a visa or arrival card for your upcoming trip to India?

The experts at the Austrian Visa and Consular Society (ÖVKG) will be happy to guide you through the India visa/arrival card application process.

There are currently two ways to apply for a visa for India:

- ELECTRONIC INDIAN VISA:

The electronic visa can be applied for numerous nationalities for a multiple entry, valid for 1 year. The prerequisite for this is that you enter via a specific border crossing published by the Indian authorities. These are:

Airports: Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar, Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gaya, Goa (Dabolim), Goa(Mopa), Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kannur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Portblair, Pune, Surat, Tiruchirapalli, Trivandrum, Varanasi and Vishakhapatnam. On arrival at Port Blair Airport, a restricted area/protected area permit is mandatory.

Seaports: Chennai, Cochin, Goa, Mangalore, Mumbai and Port Blair

However, you can exit from any of the authorized border crossing points in India.

The processing time by the Indian authorities is approximately 3 days (excluding public holidays)

- INDIA VISA IN PASSPORT - issued by the embassy in Vienna:

The India visa in your passport is valid for all border crossings and entitles you to enter the country several times within one year.

The processing time at the consulate in Vienna is approx. 1 week (excluding public holidays)

- NEW: INDIA-ARRIVAL-CARD:

Please note: Since 01.10.2025, all travelers are required to apply for an eArrival Card for every entry into India. Registration can be done at least 3 days (72 hours) before each entry.

The ÖVKG team will be happy to do this for you.

How can you apply for/book your India visa/India Arrival Card?

URL: https://oevkg.at

Customer number: If you have a customer number with ÖVKG (e.g. companies/travel agencies), please enter this in the "Customer number" field.

First steps:

1)Register: Register once with your email address at https://oevkg.at/de/clients/new and confirm your ÖVKG registration email.

2) Log in: Click on the URL www.oevkg.at or copy the link into a browser and log in with the e-mail address and password you provided during registration.

Your advantages of online booking are:

• No repeated entry of visa-relevant information
• Completion of visa applications in German
• Assignment of a personal visa advisor who will support you after your application
• Full transparency, including e-mail information on the status of the visa application
• All fees are displayed transparently before you place your fee-based order

If you do not wish to book your India visa online, please contact the ÖVKG consular advisors on +43 1 361 55 20 or by email at wien@oevkg.at. The ÖVKG staff will be happy to send you the relevant order and application forms by e-mail.

Best regards

Your ÖVKG team

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