Solomon Islands passport holders can apply for the Indian eVisa entirely online — 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 Solomon Islands citizens
Honiara has very limited long-haul connectivity — every journey to India involves at least two connections through Brisbane, Port Moresby or Nadi, and schedules are thin. There is no resident Indian mission, so the entirely online eVisa is the practical route. Build in real margin for a fixed-date trip, particularly for a hospital appointment.
Overview
The Solomon Islands has some of the thinnest long-haul connectivity of any country covered here. Honiara connects to Brisbane, Port Moresby, Nadi and Vanuatu, and every journey to India involves at least two connections with limited redundancy if one goes wrong.
Travel to India is predominantly medical and educational. India's private hospitals are considerably cheaper than the Australian care Solomon Islanders have traditionally relied on, and a number of students take degrees at Indian universities under scholarship arrangements.
Every Solomon Islands citizen needs a visa granted before departure. There is no visa-free entry and no visa on arrival. The eVisa is an electronic authorisation issued by the Government of India, linked to your passport number, with no stamp and no appointment — genuinely valuable where there is no resident Indian mission. Solomon Islands 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. Commonwealth membership makes no difference — an approved Indian visa is required before boarding.
Choose the category by purpose. Treatment at an Indian hospital requires the medical eVisa, which allows accompanying family to travel as medical attendants. Tourism and visiting friends fall under the tourist eVisa. Business meetings, trade fairs and supplier visits require the business eVisa. Employment, journalism, academic research and long-term study — including the university places Solomon Islanders take in India under scholarship arrangements — are outside the eVisa scheme and need a regular visa from an Indian mission.
The student point is worth stating plainly: an eVisa cannot be used for study and cannot be converted into a student visa once you are in India. Arrange it in advance, allowing extra time given the limited consular access.
Stay & validity
Solomon Islands 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 the better instrument: 60 days from first entry with triple entry, structured around treatment plus follow-up consultations, with medical attendant visas available for accompanying family.
Given the journey involved and the limited flight redundancy, the multi-year multiple-entry versions suit anyone travelling for staged treatment — and they remove the risk of a short visa expiring if a departure slips.
The business eVisa allows up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window. The eVisa cannot be extended or converted from inside India.
Pricing
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Requirements
Everything Solomon Islands 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 two weeks before departure. Honiara's schedules are thin and there is little redundancy, so a delay early in the chain can cost days. For medical travel, request the hospital letter as soon as your appointment is confirmed, and check any Australian transit requirement early.
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
Honiara has very limited long-haul connectivity. Every journey to India involves at least two connections through Brisbane, Port Moresby or Nadi, and Singapore is the natural onward hub. Total journey times run 20 to 30 hours.
Best time to go
October to March is India's dry season and the most comfortable window for both leisure travel and medical treatment. Note that this overlaps with the South Pacific cyclone season, which runs November to April and can disrupt Honiara departures.
For South India — Chennai and Bengaluru, the most convenient arrival points from Singapore and the main medical destinations — January to March is driest, since the north-east monsoon brings rain from October to December.
Avoid the northern plains in May and June, when temperatures exceed 45°C. For medical travel, Diwali and Holi affect hospital staffing and elective scheduling. India is 5.5 hours behind Solomon Islands time.
Avoid these
Refusals are rare, and almost always technical rather than substantive. These are the problems that come up most often on applications from Solomon Islands — we check for every one of them before submitting.
Honiara has very thin long-haul connectivity and little redundancy, so a missed or cancelled connection can cost days rather than hours on a journey already running 20 to 30 hours. Build in real margin, particularly for a fixed hospital appointment — an overnight at the first hub is often worth the cost.
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.
Study at an Indian university requires a student visa arranged through an Indian mission before travel, and an eVisa cannot be converted into one once you are in India. Given the limited consular access from Honiara, start this well ahead.
Australian transit has its own requirements depending on nationality and whether you clear immigration, and your India eVisa says nothing about them. The Port Moresby routing avoids the question.
The South Pacific cyclone season runs November to April and overlaps with India's best weather. On a thin, multi-connection routing a disrupted departure cascades badly.
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 Solomon Islands is served under concurrent accreditation by an Indian mission in the region, most likely Suva, rather than by a resident post. That has no bearing on your eVisa, which is entirely online — and it is precisely why the eVisa is the practical route. Confirm coverage if you need a student, employment or research visa, and allow considerably more time.
FAQs
The questions Solomon Islands passport holders ask most often about applying for an Indian eVisa.
Every journey involves at least two connections. Honiara connects to Brisbane, Port Moresby and Nadi, and Singapore is the natural onward hub — it has nonstop service to a wide set of Indian cities. The Port Moresby routing avoids the Australian transit question. Total journey time is 20 to 30 hours, and schedules are thin, so build in real margin.
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 your appointment is confirmed.
Up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa. The 30-day version allows 30 days with double entry. The medical eVisa gives 60 days from first entry with triple entry, and the business eVisa up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window.
No. Study at an Indian university 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. Given the limited consular access from Honiara, start this well ahead of your intended departure.
It is served under concurrent accreditation by an Indian mission in the region, most likely Suva, rather than by a resident post. That has no bearing on your eVisa, which is entirely online — and that is exactly why the eVisa is the practical route. Confirm coverage if you need a student, employment or research visa.
It is worth considering. Honiara's schedules have little redundancy and a disrupted connection can cost days. Since validity runs from the grant date, a 30-day visa can be eaten into by a delayed departure — a one-year multiple-entry visa gives more room if your dates are not firm.
It can. The South Pacific cyclone season runs November to April and overlaps with India's best travel window. On a thin, multi-connection routing a disrupted Honiara departure cascades badly, so build in real margin for fixed dates.
Fees are set by nationality and duration, so the pricing panel on this page loads live figures for Solomon Islands 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 Solomon Islands. Complete the form in under ten minutes, and our team will check every detail before it reaches the Indian authorities.
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