Foreign Tourists Visiting India Can Now Stay Up to Two Months Instead of One

The Centre has liberalised e-visa norms, with effect from April 1, wherein foreign tourists visiting India can now stay up to two months instead of one, and avail double-entry benefits in a bid to boost tourism and hospitality services. India's services trade has been estimated at about $270 billion.

Duration of stay on e-visa increased from 30 days to 60 days with double-entry on tourist and business e-visas and triple entry on medical visas," Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said, in a statement.

The double-entry benefit enables foreign tourists to visit neighbouring countries like Bhutan. They can, then, return to India within the stipulated time.

The Centre also said that e-visas have been sub-categorised into e-tourist visa, e-business visa and e-medical visa. Further, the window for application under the e-visa scheme has been increased from 30 to 120 days.

The e-visa service in India is available to 161 countries for entry through 24 airports. The Ministry of Home Affairs said that separate immigration counters and facilitation desks to assist medical tourists have been provided at six major Indian airports, including Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.

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