Brazilian passport holders can apply for the Indian eVisa entirely online — no consulate appointment in Brasília or São Paulo, no courier, no passport handed over. Approval typically arrives by email within 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
Important for Brazilian citizens
India requires a valid yellow-fever vaccination certificate from travellers arriving from Brazil. Without one you can be quarantined on arrival for up to six days, whatever visa you hold. The certificate is only valid from ten days after vaccination, so it cannot be arranged at the airport and no visa substitutes for it.
Overview
India sits almost exactly on the other side of the world from Brazil, and getting there takes a full day of flying however you route it. That makes the visa worth resolving early and the itinerary worth building properly. Every Brazilian citizen needs a visa granted before departure — there is no visa-free entry and no visa on arrival — and the eVisa covers tourism, business and medical travel entirely online.
The eVisa is an electronic authorisation from the Government of India, linked to your passport number rather than stamped into it. You upload documents, pay online and receive the approval by email. Nothing is couriered and your passport stays in your hands throughout.
Brazilian passport holders receive up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa, and the five-year multiple-entry version is available. There is a real business dimension here too: India and Brazil trade heavily in agrifood, ethanol, aircraft, pharmaceuticals and automotive components, and both sit inside BRICS, so the business eVisa sees steady use from Brazilian companies.
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. Brazilians need an approved visa before boarding, and it will be checked at the gate — often twice, since Brazilian routings to India always involve at least one connection.
Pick the category by purpose rather than by convenience. Tourism, sightseeing, wellness and yoga retreats, and visiting friends all fall under the tourist eVisa. Commercial meetings, trade fairs, supplier audits and contract negotiation require the business eVisa. Hospital treatment requires the medical eVisa. Employment, journalism, academic research and degree-level study are outside the eVisa scheme and need a regular visa from an Indian mission in Brazil.
Stay & validity
Brazilian citizens are permitted up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa. The 30-day option allows double entry with its 30 days counted from arrival. The one-year and five-year options are multiple-entry, with validity starting on the date the Indian government grants the application rather than the date you land.
Ninety days is ample for the kind of trip that justifies a 24-hour journey. It covers North India, Rajasthan, Goa and Kerala in a single itinerary without any need to think about extensions — which is fortunate, because the eVisa cannot be extended from inside India under any circumstances.
For repeat business travellers the five-year multiple-entry eVisa is usually the better economics, but watch the passport link: the eVisa is bound to one passport number, and a Brazilian passport renewal during the five-year term invalidates it.
The business eVisa allows up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window. The medical eVisa gives 60 days from first entry with triple entry.
Pricing
Live government fees and service charges for Brazilian passport holders, shown all-in — nothing further is charged later.
Your nationality is pre-selected as Brazil
Requirements
Everything Brazilian 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 runs 48 to 72 hours and express 24 to 48 hours. Both are business-day estimates, and India's many public holidays — several of them state-specific — will extend them.
Apply at least ten days before departure. Brazilian itineraries are long and frequently ticketed across separate carriers, so a visa problem found late is expensive and awkward to unwind. Ten days gives room to replace a rejected photograph without paying for express twice. Applications open 120 days out, but on one-year and five-year visas, three to four weeks ahead is the sensible balance between safety margin and wasted validity.
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
There is no nonstop service between Brazil and India. Every routing connects at least once, usually through the Gulf or Europe, and total journey time is 22 to 28 hours. Your eVisa is checked at your Indian arrival airport, so the routing is a question of price and comfort — but confirm the transit rules for each country you pass through.
Best time to go
India's high season, October to March, is dry and mild across the classic circuits — and it is also the Brazilian summer, so it overlaps with the December–January holidays and Carnaval in February. Those weeks are the busiest and priciest on Gulf and European routings out of São Paulo, so book several months ahead.
The Brazilian July holiday falls squarely in the Indian monsoon. Rain covers most of the country and regional flights and trains are unreliable. That said, July is peak season in Ladakh and the Spiti Valley, and the Kerala monsoon is the traditional time for Ayurvedic treatment — so a July trip needs a different itinerary, not a cancellation.
India is 8.5 to 9.5 hours ahead of Brasília time. Combined with 24 hours in transit, you will arrive substantially displaced; build in a recovery day rather than scheduling meetings or a long domestic connection on arrival day.
Avoid these
Refusals are rare, and almost always technical rather than substantive. These are the problems that come up most often on applications from Brazil — we check for every one of them before submitting.
Brazilian passports frequently carry two, three or four surnames, and Indian immigration expects all of them, in the printed order. Applicants who habitually shorten their name in daily life often shorten it on the application too, producing a mismatch between the eVisa and the passport that can be raised at check-in or on arrival.
Your passport's machine-readable zone strips diacritics — ç becomes C, ã becomes A. Enter your name to match the printed name line and keep it consistent with your airline booking. A single document out of step is usually fine; three inconsistent spellings across visa, ticket and passport is what causes delays.
Brazilians receive 90 days per visit, not the 180 days granted to American, British, Canadian and Japanese nationals. Much of the English-language guidance online is written for those audiences. Since the eVisa cannot be extended, plan the itinerary around 90 days.
Your India eVisa governs entry to India and nothing else. A routing via the United States needs a US visa or ESTA even for a connection, and some European connections have their own airside rules. Check each leg when you book, not at the airport.
The government fee is charged in US dollars. Brazilian cards limited to domestic use, and some corporate cards with international transactions blocked, will fail at the payment step — a frustrating way to lose a day when you are already close to departure.
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
Neither mission plays any part in an eVisa application, which is handled entirely online — a genuine advantage given Brazil's size and the fact that Indian representation is limited to two cities. They handle what the eVisa cannot cover: employment, journalism, research and long-term student visas, OCI matters, and consular services.
FAQs
The questions Brazilian 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 one-year and five-year versions are multiple-entry with a 90-day cap per visit. The business eVisa permits up to 180 days per visit within a one-year window, and the medical eVisa 60 days from first entry with triple entry.
All of them, exactly as printed on your passport and in the printed order. Brazilian passports commonly show multiple surnames, and Indian immigration compares the eVisa against the passport character by character. Do not shorten, merge or reorder them, and do not leave out a maternal surname because you rarely use it.
Government fees depend on nationality and duration, so the pricing panel on this page loads live figures for Brazilian passport holders across all 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.
No. The eVisa is applied for and issued entirely online, your passport never leaves you, and there is no appointment to book. With Indian missions only in Brasília and São Paulo, this removes a domestic trip for most Brazilian applicants.
No. All routings require at least one connection, most commonly via Doha, Dubai or Abu Dhabi, or via Lisbon, Madrid, Paris or Frankfurt. Ethiopian via Addis Ababa is often the cheapest option. Total travel time is 22 to 28 hours. Your eVisa is checked on arrival in India, not in transit, but each connecting country has its own transit rules.
No. Indian Visa on Arrival is available only to Japanese, South Korean and Emirati nationals. Brazilian citizens must have an approved visa before boarding, and airlines verify it at the departure gate.
The business eVisa, which covers meetings, trade fairs, supplier visits, technical discussions and contract negotiation. You will need an invitation letter from the Indian company on its letterhead. It permits up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window — considerably more generous than the tourist allowance, and worth using correctly rather than travelling on a tourist visa for commercial purposes.
October to March, which is India's dry season and overlaps with the Brazilian summer holidays and Carnaval. July falls in the monsoon and is difficult for a standard first itinerary, though it is the best month for Ladakh and Spiti and the traditional Ayurveda season in Kerala. Given the journey length, one longer high-season trip usually beats two short ones.
Your nationality is already set to Brazil. Complete the form in under ten minutes, and our team will check every detail before it reaches the Indian authorities.
Other nationalities
Stay limits, fees and requirements differ by passport. Here are the guides for other nationalities.
