India has extended its e-Tourist visa program to include nationals of 36 additional countries effective August 15, 2015. E-Tourist visas are issued online and limited up to two per year.
The Indian government allows travelers to use e-Tourist visas for “casual business trips”, but the permitted activities are extremely restrictive so business travelers should ideally refrain from using e-Tourist visas.
Nationals of the following countries will now be eligible for e-Tourist visas:
- Andorra
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Colombia
- Cuba
- East Timor
- Guatemala
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Jamaica
- Malta
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Monaco
- Mozambique
- Netherlands
- Panama
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Seychelles
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Saint Lucia
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
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