Bruneian passport holders can apply for the Indian eVisa entirely online — no High Commission appointment, 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
Brunei is a small market but a high-value one, with travel to India weighted towards comfortable leisure itineraries, medical treatment at India's major private hospitals, and Islamic heritage tourism through Delhi, Agra, Hyderabad and Fatehpur Sikri. There is no nonstop service, so travellers connect through Singapore, Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok — all short hops with excellent onward Indian networks.
Every Brunei citizen needs a visa granted before departure. There is no visa-free entry and no visa on arrival. For tourism, business and medical travel the eVisa handles it entirely online: an electronic authorisation issued by the Government of India, linked to your passport number, with no stamp and no consular appointment.
Bruneian passport holders receive up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa, and the five-year multiple-entry version is available. For medical travel the medical eVisa is usually the better instrument, since it is structured around treatment and follow-up rather than a single visit.
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. Brunei citizens must hold an approved visa before boarding, and Royal Brunei or your carrier will verify it at the gate.
Choose the category by purpose. Tourism, sightseeing, heritage travel, visiting friends and wellness travel fall under the tourist eVisa. Business meetings, trade fairs and supplier visits require the business eVisa. Treatment at an Indian hospital requires the medical eVisa, which also allows accompanying family to apply as medical attendants. Employment, journalism, academic research and long-term study are outside the eVisa scheme and need a regular visa from an Indian mission.
Residents of Brunei who are not Bruneian citizens apply on the nationality of their passport, with that country's fees, entitlements and stay limits.
Stay & validity
Brunei 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 generally the better choice than a tourist visa: 60 days from first entry with triple entry, structured around treatment plus follow-up consultations. Accompanying family members can apply for medical attendant visas linked to the patient's application, which matters when a patient needs support during a stay.
The business eVisa allows up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window — double the tourist allowance.
The eVisa is bound to a single passport number, so a Bruneian passport renewal during a multi-year visa's term invalidates it, with no transfer process.
Pricing
Live government fees and service charges for Bruneian passport holders, shown all-in — nothing further is charged later.
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Requirements
Everything Bruneian 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 a week before departure. For medical travel, start earlier: the hospital letter is a prerequisite for the medical eVisa and obtaining it from the Indian hospital usually takes longer than the visa itself. Coordinate the two rather than sequencing them.
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 Brunei and India, but the connections are short and convenient. Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok are all around two hours from Bandar Seri Begawan and each has an extensive onward Indian network.
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 45°C heat is genuinely harder, which is worth weighing if treatment dates are flexible.
For medical travel the Indian hospital calendar matters more than the weather. Diwali and Holi affect staffing and elective scheduling at many private hospitals, and regional festivals close offices in specific states. Confirm dates directly with the hospital.
For South India — Chennai and Kochi, both major medical destinations — the pattern differs from the north: the north-east monsoon brings rain from October to December, so January to March is driest there. Avoid the northern plains in May and June, when temperatures exceed 45°C. India is 1.5 hours behind Brunei 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 Brunei — we check for every one of them before submitting.
The defining naming problem for Bruneian applicants. Malay names carry bin or binti as part of the full name, and some passports show a single continuous name with no separate surname field. Enter the name exactly as printed on the data page. Where there is no distinct surname, put the full name in the surname field and follow the form's guidance rather than inventing a split.
If you are travelling for treatment, the medical eVisa is the correct category. It 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 treatment is scheduled, or the letter becomes the bottleneck.
Brunei citizens receive 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa, not the 180 days granted to American, British, Canadian and Japanese nationals. The eVisa cannot be extended from inside India.
Eligibility follows citizenship, not residence. A resident of Brunei holding a Malaysian, Filipino, Indian or other passport applies as a national of that country, with that country's fees and entitlements.
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 High Commission is not involved in eVisa applications, which are handled entirely online. It covers what the eVisa cannot: employment, journalism, research and long-term student visas, OCI cards, and consular services for Indian nationals in Brunei.
FAQs
The questions Bruneian 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.
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 treatment is scheduled, because it takes longer to obtain than the visa.
Exactly as printed on your passport data page. Bin and binti are part of the full name and belong in it. If your passport shows a single continuous name with no separate surname field, enter the full name in the surname field and follow the form's guidance for the given-name field — do not split the name arbitrarily to fit the boxes.
Fees are set by nationality and duration, so the pricing panel on this page loads live figures for Bruneian 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.
No, but the connections are short. Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok are each around two hours from Bandar Seri Begawan and all have extensive onward Indian networks. Total journey time is 8 to 12 hours. Kuala Lumpur gives the widest choice of South Indian arrival cities and Singapore the broadest network overall.
Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kochi have the largest international private hospital networks and the most experience with overseas patients. Chennai and Kochi are particularly well connected from Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Note that for South India, January to March is the driest window — the north-east monsoon brings rain from October to December.
No. Indian Visa on Arrival is limited to Japanese, South Korean and Emirati nationals. Brunei citizens need an approved visa before boarding, and your airline will verify it at the gate.
No. The eVisa cannot be extended or converted from inside India. If you need longer than 90 days per visit, either split the trip across two entries on a multiple-entry visa or apply for a regular visa through an Indian mission before you travel.
Your nationality is already set to Brunei. Complete the form in under ten minutes, and our team will check every detail before it reaches the Indian authorities.
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