Evisa & Visa on arrival for India
 

Finally

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/...7_1499158.html

good start....lets hope they can stick to the 2 year timeline to include the remaining countries....

This is great news... I was waiting for this to happen for my new years travel. Thanks and please keep us updated if you hear any new news.

To anyone who makes the trip to India with evisa please reply back here with your review of how smooth it went with e visa to India thanks.

Evisa starting for 28 countries November 27
 

great news... I was waiting for this to happen. To anyone who travels to India with this evisa program please reply back here with your reviews on how easy it was thanks.

It is a good start.
I wish that the evisa process would also apply to visitors not arriving by air, such as coming from cruises that stop in port cities like Goa and Mumbai. For those folks, myself included, the old fashioned process to obtain a visa is still the only option.

This is wonderful. Now I'll be able to visit India without the embassy hastle.

First, let's hope it works on November 27th without some significant mess -- even for all the 28 countries' citizens for whom it is supposed to work.

You still have to deal with them, just not in person, unless you're flagged for an in person interview. An authorization has to be obtained ahead of travel, fees paid, and probably supporting documents uploaded or posted.

I'm not holding my breath on it coming off on time. This is India.

that's true....

It's been announced!

The TVOA details are available at https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/visa/tvoa.html

The instructions claim you can apply as close as four days before travel. I'm not sure I'd want to be the first to test that speed of delivery!

It's gone live. Within the next week we should be getting reports about how the Indian ETA is working for the expanded list of countries' citizens who can use an Indian ETA and get the visa on arrival.

I found the absence of Swedes and Danes from the list rather particular, especially given the inclusion of Norwegians, Finns (from before) and Germans.

The beeb's (BBC) got it now:
India relaxes visas to boost tourism http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-30241487

I wrote about this on my blog today, after someone forwarded an article by Quartz India to me. If anyone wants to comment or add more insights on the blog post, please feel free to do so.

I wouldn't really consider it a Visa on Arrival, but -- assuming it works as it's supposed to (and that's a big assumption), then that's a HUGE improvement. I am going to India for my first time in March, so this is one less big obstacle. Of course, there's still all the planning and the vaccines...