Palestinian passport holders can apply for the Indian eVisa entirely online from wherever you are — no consular 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
Important for Palestinian passport holders
Your India eVisa authorises entry to India and nothing else. It has no bearing on your ability to exit the West Bank or Gaza, cross into Jordan or Egypt, or transit any third country — and those are almost always the harder part of the journey. Plan the whole chain before booking, and expect the exit and transit arrangements to take far longer than the Indian visa.
Overview
For Palestinian travellers the Indian visa is rarely the difficult part. Getting to an airport is. Most journeys begin with a land crossing into Jordan and a departure from Amman, or in some cases from Cairo, and those arrangements are subject to permissions, closures and delays that no visa can address. An entirely online visa process is genuinely valuable in that context — there is no consulate visit to fit around everything else.
Travel to India is predominantly medical and educational. India's private hospitals treat Palestinian patients for specialist care, and India has long offered scholarship places to Palestinian students, which is a well-established route.
Every Palestinian passport holder needs a visa granted before departure. There is no visa-free entry and no visa on arrival. Palestinian 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. Palestinian passport holders must hold an approved visa before boarding, and it will be checked at whichever airport you eventually depart from.
Choose the category by purpose. Treatment at an Indian hospital requires the medical eVisa, which allows accompanying family to travel as medical attendants. Tourism, sightseeing and visiting relatives fall under the tourist eVisa. Meetings, trade fairs and supplier visits require the business eVisa. Employment, journalism, academic research and long-term study — including scholarship places at Indian universities — are outside the eVisa scheme and need a regular visa from an Indian mission.
The student route matters here. India offers scholarship places to Palestinian students, and these require a student visa arranged through an Indian mission before travel. An eVisa cannot be used for study and cannot be converted into a student visa once you are in India.
Stay & validity
Palestinian passport holders 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. Accompanying family can apply for medical attendant visas linked to the patient's application, which matters when a patient needs support.
Because the eVisa's validity runs from the grant date rather than arrival, and because exit and transit arrangements can delay a departure unpredictably, choose the duration with some margin. A one-year multiple-entry visa gives more flexibility than a 30-day one if your travel date may slip.
The eVisa cannot be extended or converted from inside India, and it is valid only at designated airports and authorised seaports.
Pricing
Live government fees and service charges for Palestinian passport holders, shown all-in — nothing further is charged later.
Your nationality is pre-selected as Palestine
Requirements
Everything Palestinian 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.
The Indian visa is very unlikely to be your critical path. Exit permissions, the land crossing and third-country transit take far longer and are less predictable, so start those first and treat the eVisa as the quick final step. For medical travel, request the hospital letter as early as possible — it is usually the longest-lead document on the Indian side.
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 departure point within the Palestinian territories. Most journeys involve a land crossing into Jordan and a departure from Amman, which has nonstop service to Delhi; some routings go via Cairo. Your eVisa is checked at your Indian arrival airport and is unaffected by the departure point.
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 on a patient, so if treatment dates are flexible the cooler months are worth choosing.
For medical travel the Indian hospital calendar matters as much as the weather. Diwali and Holi affect staffing and elective scheduling at private hospitals, and regional festivals close offices in specific states. Confirm dates directly with the hospital's international patient office.
Avoid the northern plains in May and June, when temperatures exceed 45°C. India is 2.5 to 3.5 hours ahead depending on the season, so jet lag is minimal — the journey length is dominated by the overland leg and connections.
Avoid these
Refusals are rare, and almost always technical rather than substantive. These are the problems that come up most often on applications from Palestine — we check for every one of them before submitting.
The most important point on this page. Your eVisa authorises entry to India and nothing more. It has no bearing on your ability to exit the West Bank or Gaza, cross into Jordan or Egypt, or transit any third country — and those are almost always the harder and slower parts. Plan the whole chain before booking anything, and do not treat the eVisa's 72-hour turnaround as representative of the overall timeline.
Palestinian passports often carry a given name, father's name, grandfather's name and family name. All of them belong on the application, in the printed order, exactly as the Latin-character name line shows. Entering the short form used in daily life creates a mismatch that Indian immigration will pick up.
Practical and specific to this route. A 30-day eVisa is cheapest, but validity considerations and unpredictable exit arrangements mean a delayed departure can leave you re-applying. A one-year multiple-entry visa costs more but gives real flexibility if your travel date is not firm.
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.
India offers scholarship places to Palestinian students, and these require a student visa arranged through an Indian mission before travel. An eVisa cannot be used for study and cannot be converted once you are in 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 Indian representative office is not involved in eVisa applications, which are handled entirely online — a genuine advantage given the practical difficulties of travelling to a consulate. It is, however, the route for what the eVisa cannot cover: student visas including scholarship places, employment, journalism and research visas, and regular medical visas for extended treatment. Allow considerably more time than usual for any of these.
FAQs
The questions Palestinian passport holders ask most often about applying for an Indian eVisa.
No. The eVisa authorises entry to India and nothing else. Your ability to exit the West Bank or Gaza, cross into Jordan or Egypt, and transit any third country is governed entirely separately — and those are almost always the harder and slower parts of the journey. Plan the whole chain before booking, and do not assume the eVisa's 72-hour turnaround reflects the overall timeline.
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 early as possible, since it is usually the longest-lead document on the Indian side.
Most journeys involve a land crossing into Jordan and a departure from Amman, which has nonstop Royal Jordanian service to Delhi at around five and a half hours. Some routings go via Cairo. Gulf connections from Amman reach the widest set of Indian cities including the main medical hubs. Your eVisa is checked on arrival in India and is unaffected by where you depart.
Consider a one-year multiple-entry visa rather than the 30-day option. It costs more, but validity runs from the grant date, and if exit or transit arrangements delay your departure a short visa can expire before you travel. The extra flexibility is usually worth it on this route.
Exactly as printed on the Latin-character name line of your passport, with every element in the printed order. Palestinian passports often carry a given name, father's name, grandfather's name and family name — all belong on the application. Do not use the shortened everyday form, and make sure your airline booking matches.
No. Study 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. India's scholarship programme for Palestinian students is well established, but the visa must be the right category from the outset. Allow considerably more time than for an eVisa.
Yes. The government fee is charged in US dollars and needs a card able to process international transactions. The payment card does not have to belong to the traveller, so a family member or contact abroad can complete the payment on your behalf. Sort this out before you begin.
Fees are set by nationality and duration, so the pricing panel on this page loads live figures for Palestinian 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.
Your nationality is already set to Palestine. 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.
