Romanian passport holders can apply for the Indian eVisa entirely online — no appointment at the Embassy of India in Bucharest, 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
Romanian outbound travel to India has grown quickly, and it splits fairly evenly between leisure and work. The leisure side is independent and price-sensitive: longer trips, trains and buses, and a strong appetite for the Himalaya alongside the standard Rajasthan and Kerala circuits. The work side is driven by Romania's large IT and automotive sectors, both of which have substantial Indian supplier and delivery relationships.
Every Romanian 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.
Romanian passport holders receive up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa, and the five-year multiple-entry version is available. Ninety days suits the slower itineraries this market plans, but it is a hard ceiling — the eVisa cannot be extended once you are in India.
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. Romanian citizens must hold an approved visa before boarding, and because Romanian routings involve a connection, the check often happens at Bucharest.
Choose the category by purpose. Tourism, trekking, sightseeing, visiting friends and wellness travel fall under the tourist eVisa. Meetings, trade fairs, supplier audits and technical discussions require the business eVisa — the relevant category for Romania's IT and automotive travel to Bengaluru, Pune and Chennai. 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 Bucharest.
Stay & validity
Romanian 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 rather than the date you land.
That grant-date rule is the common waste for anyone booking a cheap fare far ahead: applying in March for a November trip spends eight months of a one-year eVisa before departure. Apply two to three weeks before you fly.
Two conditions matter for long independent trips. The eVisa cannot be extended or converted from inside India, so 90 days is a genuine per-visit ceiling. And it is valid only at designated airports and authorised seaports — it cannot be used to cross a land border, which rules out an overland re-entry from Nepal.
The business eVisa allows up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window — double the tourist allowance, and the right instrument for extended IT delivery or project work. The medical eVisa gives 60 days from first entry with triple entry.
Pricing
Live government fees and service charges for Romanian passport holders, shown all-in — nothing further is charged later.
Your nationality is pre-selected as Romania
Requirements
Everything Romanian 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. Romanian itineraries always involve a connection, sometimes across separate low-cost tickets, so a visa problem discovered late is more expensive to unwind 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 nonstop service between Romania and India, so every routing involves at least one connection. Total journey times run 10 to 16 hours. Your eVisa is checked at your Indian arrival airport rather than in transit.
Best time to go
October to March is India's dry season and the best window for the classic circuits. The Christmas and New Year weeks are the fare peak; February and March offer the same weather at better prices, which suits this cost-conscious market.
The Romanian summer holidays fall in the monsoon — poor for Rajasthan and the Golden Triangle, but the best months of the year for Ladakh, the Spiti Valley and Sikkim, which sit in the monsoon's rain shadow. Given the Himalayan interest here, a July or August trip is worth redirecting rather than dropping.
For business travel to Bengaluru and Chennai, note that South India 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 2.5 to 3.5 hours ahead of Romanian time depending on the season.
Avoid these
Refusals are rare, and almost always technical rather than substantive. These are the problems that come up most often on applications from Romania — we check for every one of them before submitting.
Your passport's machine-readable zone strips diacritics — Ștefan becomes STEFAN, Ionescu-Țărănescu becomes IONESCU-TARANESCU. Match the printed name line on the data page and keep your airline booking consistent with it. Three variants of one name across visa, ticket and passport is what triggers questions at check-in.
Common on long budget itineraries through the Himalaya. The eVisa is valid only at designated airports and authorised seaports, so any entry or re-entry must be by air. Fly Kathmandu to Delhi rather than crossing at Sunauli, or you will be refused entry.
Romanian citizens receive 90 days per visit, not the 180 days granted to American, British, Canadian and Japanese nationals. Since Romanian itineraries are often long and the eVisa cannot be extended from inside India, confirm this before booking.
Romanian engineers and consultants sometimes use a tourist eVisa because it needs no invitation letter. Commercial activity on a tourist visa is a misuse of the category, and the business eVisa gives twice the stay allowance anyway — 180 days per visit against 90.
On one-year and five-year visas, validity runs from the grant date rather than arrival. Booking a bargain fare eight months out and applying the same week throws away most of the visa.
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 Bucharest is not involved in eVisa applications, which are handled entirely online — relevant given that it is the only Indian mission in Romania. It covers what the eVisa cannot: employment, journalism, research and long-term student visas, OCI cards, and consular services for Indian nationals in Romania.
FAQs
The questions Romanian 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.
Fees are set by nationality and duration, so the pricing panel on this page loads live figures for Romanian 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. Every routing involves at least one connection — most commonly Istanbul, which is frequently both the shortest and the best value, or Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Total journey time is 10 to 16 hours. From Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara or Iași you will connect via Bucharest, Istanbul or Vienna.
Match the printed name line on your passport data page. The machine-readable zone strips diacritics — Ștefan appears as STEFAN there. 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.
No, and this catches out long Himalayan itineraries. The eVisa is accepted only at India's designated eVisa airports and authorised seaports, so any re-entry must be by air. A land crossing needs a regular visa from the embassy in Bucharest, arranged before you leave Romania.
The business eVisa, provided you are attending meetings, technical discussions or delivery reviews rather than taking up employment in India. You will need an invitation letter from the Indian entity on its letterhead. It permits up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window — twice the Romanian tourist allowance.
No. Indian Visa on Arrival is limited to Japanese, South Korean and Emirati nationals. Romanian citizens need an approved visa before boarding, and because every routing starts with a connection, your airline may check it at Bucharest.
October to March for the classic circuits, with February and March giving the best value. The Romanian summer holidays fall in the monsoon, which rules out Rajasthan — but July and August are the best months of the year for Ladakh, Spiti and Sikkim. For Bengaluru and Chennai, January to March is driest.
Your nationality is already set to Romania. Complete the form in under ten minutes, and our team will check every detail before it reaches the Indian authorities.
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