Mexican passport holders can apply for the Indian eVisa entirely online — no trip to the Embassy of India in Mexico City, no courier, no passport surrendered. Approval usually 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
For Mexican travellers, India is a long-haul destination reached almost entirely through connections, and the visa is the part of the trip most worth sorting out early. Every Mexican citizen needs a visa granted before departure — there is no visa-free access and no visa on arrival — and for tourism, business and medical travel the eVisa handles it online.
The eVisa is an electronic authorisation issued by the Government of India and linked to your passport number. Nothing is stamped, nothing is couriered, and you never hand over your passport. That matters more than usual for Mexican applicants, because the alternative is the Embassy of India in Mexico City, which is the only Indian mission in the country.
Mexican passport holders are granted up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa. The five-year multiple-entry option is available, which suits the reality of Mexican travel to India: given the journey involved, most people who go once and enjoy it plan a longer or second trip rather than a quick return.
At a glance
Eligibility
Yes. India does not offer visa-free entry or Visa on Arrival to Mexican citizens — those facilities extend only to Nepal and Bhutan, and to Japanese, South Korean and Emirati nationals respectively. Your airline will check the visa before boarding, and because Mexican itineraries almost always route through a third country, that check can happen in Mexico City, at a European or Gulf hub, or both.
Choose the category by purpose. Tourism, sightseeing, yoga and wellness retreats, and visiting friends fall under the tourist eVisa. Meetings, trade fairs and commercial negotiation require the business eVisa — relevant given growing Mexico–India trade in automotive components, pharmaceuticals and agrifood. Hospital treatment requires the medical eVisa. Employment, journalism, academic research and degree study are outside the eVisa scheme and need a regular visa from the embassy in Mexico City.
Stay & validity
Mexican citizens receive up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa. The 30-day version permits double entry and counts its 30 days from your arrival date. The one-year and five-year versions are multiple-entry and count validity from the date the Indian government grants the application — so applying far in advance quietly consumes validity you have paid for.
Given that most Mexican travellers spend two full days in transit each way, the 90-day allowance is generous in practice. It comfortably covers the multi-region itinerary that makes the long journey worthwhile — North India, Rajasthan and Kerala in one trip, for instance — without any need to consider extensions, which the eVisa does not permit.
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, built around treatment plus follow-up consultations.
Pricing
Live government fees and service charges for Mexican passport holders, shown all-in — nothing further is charged later.
Your nationality is pre-selected as Mexico
Requirements
Everything Mexican 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 — which are frequent and vary by state — will stretch them.
Apply at least ten days out. Mexican itineraries are long, multi-sector and often booked on separate tickets, so a visa problem discovered late is far more expensive to fix than for a short-haul traveller. Ten days leaves comfortable room for a document re-upload. Applications open 120 days before travel, but for the one-year and five-year visas the best balance for most Mexican travellers is three to four weeks ahead.
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 Mexico and India, so every routing involves at least one connection and most involve two. Total travel time runs 20 to 26 hours. Your eVisa is examined at your Indian arrival airport, not at any connecting point, so the routing you pick is purely a matter of cost and comfort.
Best time to go
October through March is India's high season, with dry, mild weather across the classic circuits. For Mexican travellers this aligns neatly with the December holidays and with Semana Santa in March or April, both natural windows for a trip long enough to justify the flight.
The Mexican summer break in July and August is the hardest period to work with. It coincides with the Indian monsoon, which brings heavy rain to most of the country and can disrupt regional flights and rail. It is not a lost cause — Ladakh and the Spiti Valley are at their finest in exactly those months, and the Kerala monsoon is the traditional season for Ayurvedic treatment — but the standard Golden Triangle itinerary is a poor choice in August.
India runs 11.5 to 12.5 hours ahead of Mexican time zones, so you arrive with the clock essentially reversed. Combined with 20-plus hours of transit, plan a genuine rest day on arrival rather than scheduling anything for your first afternoon.
Avoid these
Refusals are rare, and almost always technical rather than substantive. These are the problems that come up most often on applications from Mexico — we check for every one of them before submitting.
The most frequent problem for Mexican applicants. Mexican passports carry a paternal and a maternal surname, and India's system expects them exactly as printed, in the printed order. Merging them, hyphenating them, dropping the maternal surname, or swapping the order all create a mismatch between visa and passport that can be raised at check-in or at immigration.
Your passport's machine-readable zone strips accents and renders ñ as N. Enter your name to match the printed name line, and be consistent with what your airline ticket shows — a visa reading MUNOZ against a ticket reading MUÑOZ is usually accepted, but inconsistency across three documents invites questions.
Mexican citizens receive 90 days per visit, not the 180 days granted to US, UK, Canadian and Japanese nationals. Guides written for an American audience state 180 freely. Plan your itinerary around 90 days, because the eVisa cannot be extended from inside India.
Routings via the US require ESTA or a US visa even for a short connection, and some European routings involve airside transit rules of their own. Your India eVisa says nothing about your right to transit a third country — check each connection separately when booking.
Validity starts at grant, not arrival. A Mexican traveller planning a trip four months out who applies immediately has spent a third of a one-year visa before leaving home.
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 Mexico City is not involved in eVisa applications — those are handled entirely online, which is the main practical advantage for applicants outside the capital. The embassy is where you go for the categories the eVisa does not cover: employment, journalism, research and long-term study visas, plus OCI matters and consular services.
FAQs
The questions Mexican 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.
Exactly as they appear on your passport's name line, in the same order, without merging or hyphenating them. If your passport shows GARCÍA LÓPEZ as surnames, both belong in the surname field in that order. This single detail causes more Mexican applications to run into trouble than anything else, so check it against the passport itself rather than from memory.
Fees are set by nationality and duration. The pricing panel on this page loads live figures for Mexican passport holders across every available option, so you can compare 30-day, one-year and five-year costs directly. The figure shown is the full amount including our service fee.
No — and that is the point of the eVisa. The whole application is online, your passport stays with you, and there is no appointment to book. This matters most if you live in Monterrey, Guadalajara or anywhere outside the capital, where the embassy visit would otherwise mean a domestic trip.
No. Every route requires at least one connection, typically via Madrid, Paris, Frankfurt or Amsterdam, or via Doha, Dubai or Istanbul. Total journey time is 20 to 26 hours. Your eVisa is checked at your Indian arrival airport, so the routing has no effect on the visa itself — but do confirm the transit requirements for each country you pass through.
No. Indian Visa on Arrival is limited to Japanese, South Korean and Emirati nationals. Mexican citizens must hold an approved visa before boarding, and it will be verified before you are allowed to fly.
October to March gives the best weather across most of India and lines up with the December holidays and Semana Santa. July and August fall in the monsoon and are difficult for a first visit, though Ladakh and Spiti are excellent then and Kerala's monsoon is the traditional Ayurveda season. Given a 20-hour-plus journey, most Mexican travellers get better value from one long high-season trip than from two short ones.
No. The eVisa cannot be extended or converted into another visa category from inside India. If you need longer than your 90 days, you must leave and apply again — so build the full itinerary before you submit the application.
Your nationality is already set to Mexico. 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.
