Danish passport holders can apply for the Indian eVisa entirely online — no appointment at the Embassy of India in Copenhagen, 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
Danish travel to India is strongly seasonal and strongly southbound: Goa and Kerala in the Nordic winter, with a long-established charter and package market running from November to April. Alongside that sits a substantial corporate flow — Danish shipping, wind energy, pharmaceuticals, enzymes and brewing all have significant Indian operations.
Every Danish 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.
Danish passport holders receive up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa, and the five-year multiple-entry version is available. For the winter-escape pattern — six or eight weeks in Goa or Kerala, repeated annually — the five-year visa is comfortably the better economics.
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. Danish citizens must hold an approved visa before boarding, and because Danish routings involve a connection, the check often happens at Copenhagen before you have left Denmark.
Choose the category by purpose. Tourism, sightseeing, visiting friends, and yoga or Ayurveda retreats fall under the tourist eVisa. Business meetings, trade fairs, supplier audits and technical discussions require the business eVisa. Hospital treatment requires the medical eVisa. Employment, journalism, academic research and long-term study are outside the eVisa scheme and need a regular visa from the embassy in Copenhagen.
Danish residents who are not Danish citizens apply on the nationality of their passport, with that country's fees, entitlements and stay limits — not Denmark's.
Stay & validity
Danish 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 starts on the date the Indian government grants the application, not the date you land.
The grant-date rule matters particularly for the winter-escape pattern. If you book in June for a January departure and apply straight away, you have spent seven months of a one-year eVisa before leaving. Apply two to three weeks before you fly.
For anyone repeating the winter trip annually, the five-year multiple-entry tourist eVisa is clearly better value — unlimited entries at up to 90 days each across the full term. The caveat is the passport link: the eVisa is bound to one passport number, and a Danish passport renewal during the five years invalidates it.
The business eVisa allows up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window — double the tourist allowance, which suits Danish project engineers on extended assignments. The medical eVisa gives 60 days from first entry with triple entry.
Pricing
Live government fees and service charges for Danish passport holders, shown all-in — nothing further is charged later.
Your nationality is pre-selected as Denmark
Requirements
Everything Danish 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. Danish itineraries always involve a connection and are sometimes ticketed across separate carriers, so a visa problem found late is more awkward to fix than for a nonstop traveller. Ten days leaves comfortable room for a photo re-upload.
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 consistent nonstop service between Denmark and India, so every routing involves at least one connection. Total journey times run 11 to 17 hours. Your eVisa is checked at your Indian arrival airport rather than in transit.
Best time to go
November to March is the core Danish season for India, and it coincides exactly with the country's best weather. The Goa and Kerala charter season runs roughly November to April, built around Nordic, British and Russian winter travellers. Christmas and New Year are the fare peak; January and February offer the same conditions with better availability and lower prices.
The Danish summer holidays fall in the monsoon, which rules out Rajasthan and the Golden Triangle. July and August are, however, the best months of the year for Ladakh, the Spiti Valley and Sikkim, and Kerala's monsoon is the traditional Ayurveda season. Change the destination rather than the dates.
Avoid the northern plains in May and June, when temperatures exceed 45°C. India is 3.5 to 4.5 hours ahead of Danish time depending on the season, so the shift is modest — most of the fatigue comes from the connection, and an overnight Gulf transit typically means an early-morning Indian arrival.
Avoid these
Refusals are rare, and almost always technical rather than substantive. These are the problems that come up most often on applications from Denmark — we check for every one of them before submitting.
The defining Danish-specific problem. Your passport's machine-readable zone renders Ø as O, Æ as AE and Å as A or AA, so Søren becomes SOREN and Kjærgaard becomes KJAERGAARD. The printed name line shows the Danish form. Match the printed line and keep your airline booking consistent — three variants of one name across visa, ticket and passport is what triggers questions at check-in.
Danish citizens receive 90 days per visit, not the 180 days granted to American, British, Canadian and Japanese nationals. This matters for the winter-escape pattern: 90 days covers December to February comfortably, but a five-month stay is not available on an eVisa and it cannot be extended from inside India.
Danes book winter trips early, often in spring. On a one-year eVisa, validity runs from the grant date, so applying in May for a January trip throws away most of the visa. Book the flights early by all means, but apply for the visa two to three weeks before departure.
The government fee is charged in US dollars. A domestic Dankort will not process it. Use a Visa or Mastercard credit card, or a debit card explicitly enabled for foreign-currency transactions.
A five-year eVisa spans much of a passport cycle. Renewing your Danish passport invalidates the eVisa attached to the old number, with no transfer process. Coordinate the two, particularly if you rely on the same visa for several consecutive winters.
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 Copenhagen is not involved in eVisa applications, which are handled entirely online — relevant given that it is the only Indian mission in Denmark. It covers what the eVisa cannot: employment, journalism, research and long-term student visas, OCI cards, and consular services for Indian nationals in Denmark.
FAQs
The questions Danish 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.
Match the printed name line on your passport data page. The machine-readable zone will show a transliterated version — SOREN for Søren, KJAERGAARD for Kjærgaard — and either form is generally accepted, but consistency across your visa, passport and airline ticket is what matters. Pick the printed version and use it everywhere.
If you repeat the trip, clearly yes. The five-year multiple-entry tourist eVisa costs far less than five separate applications and allows unlimited entries at up to 90 days each, which fits the Nordic winter-escape pattern precisely. The one thing to watch is that renewing your passport during the five years invalidates the visa.
Fees are set by nationality and duration, so the pricing panel on this page loads live figures for Danish 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 consistent nonstop service. Every routing involves at least one connection — commonly Doha, Dubai or Abu Dhabi, or Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Helsinki or Istanbul. Total journey time is 11 to 17 hours. For Goa and Kerala, Gulf-connected routings are usually faster than flying into Delhi or Mumbai and connecting domestically.
Ninety days per visit covers December through February comfortably, but not a five-month stay, and the eVisa cannot be extended from inside India. On a multiple-entry visa the practical approach is to leave India before day 90 — a short trip to Sri Lanka or Thailand is common — and re-enter by air on a fresh allowance.
No. Indian Visa on Arrival is limited to Japanese, South Korean and Emirati nationals. Danish citizens need an approved visa before boarding, and because every routing starts with a connection, your airline may check it at Copenhagen.
The business eVisa, covering 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 — twice the Danish tourist allowance, which makes using the correct category worthwhile for extended project work.
Your nationality is already set to Denmark. 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.
