True, but Germany is also pretty nasty with issuing visa to Indian nationals. Can't count how many time the visa for our business partners were just plainly denied. No idea why. Even with letters of guarantees, deposits placed, and the applicant having US, CA and UK visa in their passports. It is so ridiculous.

Talked to a former colleague who has a friend working in BoI. It looks like they switched to manual processing for ALL eVisa ETAs. In the past a lot were automatically approved, especially the 30 day tourist visa. And now, for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year the amount of visa requests spiked a lot. They are just backlogged as it seems.

But the least they could do: Put a banner on the website: Takes longer folks! Count on at least 15 days... if quicker than that, be happy!