Armenian passport holders can apply for the Indian eVisa entirely online — no appointment at the Embassy of India in Yerevan, no courier, no passport handed over. Approval typically arrives by email in 24 to 72 hours.
90 days
Maximum stay per visit
24–72 hrs
Typical processing time
Up to 5 years
Longest validity offered
Not eligible
Visa on Arrival
100% online
No embassy visit
Overview
Armenia and India have a connection most travellers do not expect. Armenian merchants settled in India from the sixteenth century, and the Armenian Church of the Holy Nazareth in Kolkata, the Armenian College there, and Armenian churches in Chennai and Surat all survive. For Armenian travellers this makes India a heritage destination as well as a leisure one.
The larger contemporary stream is medical. India's private hospitals treat significant numbers of Armenian patients for cardiac, oncological and orthopaedic care, and for many conditions India is the nearest place to obtain specialist treatment at a manageable cost.
Every Armenian citizen needs a visa granted before departure. There is no visa-free entry and no visa on arrival. The eVisa is an electronic authorisation issued by the Government of India, linked to your passport number, with no stamp and no appointment. Armenian passport holders receive up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa.
At a glance
Eligibility
Yes. India extends visa-free entry only to Nepal and Bhutan, and Visa on Arrival only to Japanese, South Korean and Emirati nationals. Armenian citizens must hold an approved visa before boarding, and your carrier will verify it at the gate in Yerevan.
Choose the category by purpose. Tourism, sightseeing, heritage travel and visiting friends fall under the tourist eVisa — visiting the Armenian churches and college in Kolkata counts as tourism. Treatment at an Indian hospital requires the medical eVisa, which allows accompanying family to travel as medical attendants. Business meetings and trade require the business eVisa. Employment, journalism, academic research and long-term study are outside the eVisa scheme and need a regular visa from an Indian mission.
Note that a number of Armenians study at Indian universities, and an eVisa cannot be used for that. A student visa must be arranged through an Indian mission before travel and cannot be converted from an eVisa once you are in India.
Stay & validity
Armenian citizens are permitted up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa. The 30-day version allows double entry, with its 30 days counted from your arrival date. The one-year and five-year versions are multiple-entry, and their validity begins on the date the Indian government grants the application.
For medical travel the medical eVisa is the better instrument: 60 days from first entry with triple entry, structured around treatment plus follow-up consultations, with medical attendant visas available for accompanying family.
Sixty days covers most treatment episodes, but complex care can run longer and the eVisa cannot be extended from inside India. Establish the expected duration with the hospital before choosing a visa.
The business eVisa allows up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window — double the tourist allowance.
Pricing
Live government fees and service charges for Armenian passport holders, shown all-in — nothing further is charged later.
Your nationality is pre-selected as Armenia
Requirements
Everything Armenian passport holders need before starting an application. The first five items apply to every applicant; the rest are specific to your nationality or visa type.
Passport bio-data page — a clear colour scan or photo showing your photograph, full name, date of birth, passport number and expiry date
Recent passport-style photograph — square format, plain white background, full face visible, no shadows and no headwear other than for religious reasons
A valid credit or debit card to pay the government fee and service charge
Your return or onward ticket details, or at minimum your intended departure date
The address where you will be staying for your first night in India
Simple process
Four steps, entirely online, with our team checking every field before anything reaches the Indian authorities.
Enter your passport details exactly as printed, choose your visa type and duration, and upload your photo and passport data page.
Our team checks your photo dimensions, passport scan clarity, name spelling and date formats before anything is submitted.
Your application goes to the Government of India on your behalf, and we keep you posted at every status change.
Print it or keep it on your phone, and we explain exactly how to present it at your port of entry in India.
Standard processing takes 48 to 72 hours and express handling 24 to 48 hours. Both are business-day estimates, and Indian public holidays — numerous and often state-specific — extend them.
Apply at least ten days before departure, and considerably earlier for medical travel. The hospital letter is usually the bottleneck rather than the visa: request it the moment your appointment is confirmed and run both processes in parallel.
Separate from your eVisa, every foreign national entering India must complete the digital e-Arrival Card before boarding. It replaces the old paper disembarkation form and is required on every single visit, whatever visa you hold.
Getting there
Yerevan connects to India through Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Moscow, and direct services have operated at times — verify current schedules when booking. Total journey times run 8 to 14 hours.
Best time to go
October to March is India's dry season and the most comfortable window for both leisure travel and medical treatment. Recovery in extreme heat is genuinely harder, so if treatment dates are flexible the cooler months are worth choosing.
For Kolkata and the Armenian heritage sites, November to February is ideal — the city is uncomfortably hot and humid from April onwards and heavily affected by the monsoon from June to September.
Avoid the northern plains in May and June, when temperatures exceed 45°C. For medical travel, note that Diwali and Holi affect staffing and elective scheduling at private hospitals. India is 1.5 hours ahead of Armenian time, so there is effectively no jet lag.
Avoid these
Refusals are rare, and almost always technical rather than substantive. These are the problems that come up most often on applications from Armenia — we check for every one of them before submitting.
Armenian uses its own script, and names have several valid Latin transliterations — Hovhannes or Hovannes, Sargsyan or Sarkisian, Grigoryan or Grigorian. Your passport uses one specific form, and the eVisa must match it exactly, as must your airline ticket. Using a diaspora or Western spelling instead of the passport form is the most common cause of mismatch.
The medical eVisa allows triple entry for follow-up consultations and lets accompanying family apply as medical attendants — structure a tourist eVisa does not provide. Indian hospitals increasingly ask which visa you hold.
The medical eVisa requires a letter from a hospital on India's recognised list, and obtaining it takes longer than the visa. Request it as soon as your appointment is confirmed and run both processes in parallel.
Study at an Indian university requires a student visa arranged through an Indian mission before travel, and an eVisa cannot be converted into one once you are in India.
Armenian citizens receive 90 days per visit, not the 180 days granted to American, British, Canadian and Japanese nationals. The eVisa cannot be extended from inside India.
Photo rejected on technical grounds
By far the most common cause of delay. The photograph must be square, on a plain white background, with your full face visible and no shadow behind your head. Cropped selfies and phone photos taken against a cream wall are routinely bounced back.
Passport scan unreadable
Glare across the machine-readable zone, a cut-off corner, or a scan where the passport number is blurred will stall the application. Photograph the page flat, in daylight, with no flash.
Applying too close to departure
The eVisa must be granted before you fly, and airlines check it at the gate. Applications submitted the night before a flight leave no room for a document re-upload.
Conditions
These conditions are set by the Government of India and do not vary by nationality. They are worth reading before you book, because two of them — the port-of-entry rule and the restricted-areas rule — catch out a lot of otherwise well-planned trips.
Validity is measured from your date of arrival in India, not from the date you apply. You also need at least two blank pages for immigration stamps.
The India eVisa is accepted at India's designated eVisa airports and authorised seaports. It cannot be used to cross a land border, so overland arrivals from Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh or Pakistan need a different visa.
Every person travelling needs their own eVisa and their own passport, including infants and children. Children cannot be added to a parent's application.
An eVisa does not grant access to Protected Areas, Restricted Areas or Cantonment Areas. Parts of Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim, Ladakh, the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep require a Protected Area Permit or Restricted Area Permit in addition to your visa.
You cannot extend an eVisa from inside India or convert it into another visa category. If your plans change, you must leave and apply again.
Diplomatic, official and service passports are not eligible for the eVisa route, and neither are international travel documents or refugee travel documents.
Consular services
The embassy in Yerevan is not involved in eVisa applications, which are handled entirely online. It covers what the eVisa cannot: student visas for study at Indian universities, employment, journalism and research visas, regular medical visas for extended treatment, and OCI matters.
FAQs
The questions Armenian passport holders ask most often about applying for an Indian eVisa.
Up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa. The 30-day version allows 30 days with double entry. The medical eVisa gives 60 days from first entry with triple entry, and the business eVisa up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window.
The medical eVisa. It allows 60 days from first entry with triple entry — designed around treatment plus follow-up consultations — and accompanying family members can apply for medical attendant visas linked to your application. You will need a letter from the treating hospital, which must be on India's recognised list. Request it as soon as your appointment is confirmed.
Exactly as it is transliterated on your current passport, character for character. Armenian uses its own script and names have several valid Latin forms — Sargsyan and Sarkisian are the same name — so only the passport version is correct for the visa. Diaspora and Western spellings frequently differ from the passport form. Make sure your airline ticket matches too.
Yes. Heritage and religious visits count as tourism, so a tourist eVisa covers the Armenian Church of the Holy Nazareth and the Armenian College in Kolkata, and the Armenian churches in Chennai and Surat. Kolkata is a designated eVisa airport. November to February is the best season — the city is very hot and humid from April and heavily affected by the monsoon.
Fees are set by nationality and duration, so the pricing panel on this page loads live figures for Armenian passport holders across all available options. You can compare 30-day, one-year and five-year prices side by side, and the amount shown is the full cost including our service fee.
Direct Yerevan–Delhi service has operated at times, so verify current schedules when booking. Otherwise, connections via Doha, Dubai or Abu Dhabi are the reliable options and reach a wider set of Indian cities including Chennai and Kochi. Total journey time is 8 to 14 hours.
No. Study at an Indian university requires a student visa arranged through an Indian mission before you travel, and an eVisa cannot be converted into one once you are in India.
No. Indian Visa on Arrival is limited to Japanese, South Korean and Emirati nationals. Armenian citizens need an approved visa before boarding, and your airline will verify it at the gate in Yerevan.
Your nationality is already set to Armenia. Complete the form in under ten minutes, and our team will check every detail before it reaches the Indian authorities.
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