E Tourist Visa
E tourist
visa has been trending a lot lately. E tourist visa is the new name for earlier
term visa on arrival. There are some advanced requirements for this like Return
ticket etc. Let’s find out more.
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| E Tourist Visa |
Visa means
Visitors International Stay Admission. This was acquired from a Latin name
Charta visa. Charta visa means that document which is important to see/check.
This is a legal permission for any person to travel in a foreign country. Visa
is valid for a limited time and is given upon the presentation of the passport.
Different countries have various visa rules. Indian government has recently
made many amendments in the visa rules and E Tourist visa is one of them. Let’s
understand its process in detail.
As visa on
arrival term created some misunderstandings in tourist’s minds so the
government has changed the term to E Tourist visa now. E Tourist visa is given
to international travelers.
In India it’s imparted to those people who are
going out of India for a short visit for travel, medical or meeting family and friends’s
or business purpose. Visa’s validity can be up to six months starting on
arrival date. The requirements are to have at least two plain pages left on the
passport to be used by travel authorities and should have return ticket or
further travel itinerary with them .
E Visa facility is available in 150
countries which doesn’t include Pakistan. If a traveler has Pakistani passport
then they have to apply to Indian consulate mission for visa. Around 72 counters
in India have e visa facility including 9 airports of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata,
Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram
and Goa etc.
May 2015
trended with around 15659 tourists arriving in India on E – Tourist visa and
previous year had around 1833 tourists arriving on E Visa so this sector saw a
growth of 754.3%.
DR. SARMISTHA SARMA
Associate professor at the IIT and Management (Affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi)
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