Uzbekistani passport holders can apply for the Indian eVisa entirely online — no appointment at the Embassy of India in Tashkent, 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
Uzbekistan is one of India's largest medical tourism markets, and by some measures the largest in Central Asia. India's private hospitals in Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai and Chennai treat very substantial numbers of Uzbek patients for cardiac surgery, oncology, orthopaedics, neurosurgery and fertility treatment. For many families it is the nearest place to obtain specialist care that is either unavailable or prohibitively expensive at home, and the route is well worn enough that major Indian hospitals maintain Russian-speaking patient coordinators.
Alongside medical travel there is a deep historical connection — the Mughal dynasty originated in the Fergana Valley, and Uzbek travellers visiting Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri are in a real sense visiting their own history. Business travel in textiles, pharmaceuticals and agriculture has grown alongside.
Every Uzbek 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, and Uzbekistani passport holders receive up to 90 days per visit on the tourist eVisa. Tashkent has nonstop service to Delhi at around three and a half hours.
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. Uzbek citizens must hold an approved visa before boarding, and Uzbekistan Airways or your carrier will verify it at the gate in Tashkent.
Choose the category by purpose. Treatment at an Indian hospital requires the medical eVisa — the correct category for the largest stream of Uzbek travel to India, and it allows accompanying family to travel as medical attendants. Tourism, sightseeing, heritage travel 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 medical and engineering degrees at Indian universities, a very well-established route from Uzbekistan — are outside the eVisa scheme and need a regular visa.
The student point deserves emphasis. Large numbers of Uzbek students take degrees in India, and an eVisa cannot be used for study. A student visa must be arranged through an Indian mission before travel and cannot be converted from an eVisa once you are in the country.
Stay & validity
Uzbek 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 right 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 — genuinely important on this route, where patients frequently travel with a spouse or adult child who handles logistics and translation.
Sixty days covers most treatment episodes, but complex or multi-stage care can run longer, and the eVisa cannot be extended from inside India. Establish the expected duration with the hospital before choosing a visa; for extended treatment a regular medical visa from an Indian mission may be more appropriate.
The business eVisa allows up to 180 days per visit within a one-year multiple-entry window.
Pricing
Live government fees and service charges for Uzbekistani passport holders, shown all-in — nothing further is charged later.
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Requirements
Everything Uzbekistani 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 a week before departure, and considerably earlier for medical travel. The hospital letter is the usual bottleneck rather than the visa: request it the moment your appointment is confirmed and run both processes in parallel. For urgent treatment, express processing on the visa side can compress the timeline once the letter is in hand.
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
Tashkent has nonstop service to Delhi at around three and a half hours, making India genuinely close. Delhi is a designated eVisa port and the largest concentration of hospitals serving Central Asian patients, with Gurugram immediately adjacent.
Best time to go
October to March is India's dry season and the most comfortable window for both treatment and travel. Recovery in 45°C heat is genuinely harder on a patient, so if treatment dates are flexible the cooler months are worth choosing deliberately.
For medical travel the Indian hospital calendar matters more than the weather. Diwali and Holi affect staffing and elective scheduling at private hospitals, and regional festivals close offices in specific states. Confirm appointment dates directly with the hospital, and ideally with its international patient office.
For heritage travel to Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, November to February is ideal — cool, clear and comfortable for long days at outdoor monuments. Avoid the northern plains in May and June, when temperatures exceed 45°C. India is 30 minutes behind Uzbek time, so there is no jet lag at all.
Avoid these
Refusals are rare, and almost always technical rather than substantive. These are the problems that come up most often on applications from Uzbekistan — we check for every one of them before submitting.
The defining Central Asian problem. Uzbekistan has moved between Cyrillic and Latin script, and names frequently appeared differently on older passports — Islom or Islam, Gulnora or Gulnara, Yusupov or Iusupov. Your current passport uses one specific form, and the eVisa must match it exactly, as must your airline ticket. Using an older spelling is the most frequent cause of mismatch on this route.
The most consequential error, given that medical travel is the dominant stream here. The medical eVisa allows triple entry for follow-up consultations and lets accompanying family apply as medical attendants — structure a tourist eVisa simply does not provide. Indian hospitals increasingly ask which visa you hold, and a mismatch can complicate admission and insurance.
Family members travelling with a patient should apply for medical attendant visas linked to the patient's application, not separate tourist visas. This matters practically: it ties the attendant's permission to the patient's treatment and avoids problems if the stay extends within the visa's validity.
The medical eVisa requires a letter from a hospital on India's recognised list, and obtaining it takes longer than the visa. Request it as soon as your appointment is confirmed and run the two in parallel — this is the single most useful thing you can do to compress the timeline for urgent treatment.
Very large numbers of Uzbek students take medical and engineering degrees in India, and an eVisa cannot be used for it. A student visa must be arranged through an Indian mission before travel and cannot be converted from an eVisa once you are in the country.
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 Tashkent is not involved in eVisa applications, which are handled entirely online. It covers what the eVisa cannot: student visas for study at Indian universities — a major route from Uzbekistan — plus employment, journalism and research visas, regular medical visas for extended treatment, and OCI matters.
FAQs
The questions Uzbekistani passport holders ask most often about applying for an Indian eVisa.
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 that letter as soon as your appointment is confirmed, because it is usually the bottleneck rather than the visa.
A medical attendant visa, linked to your medical eVisa application — not a separate tourist visa. This ties their permission to your treatment and avoids complications if the stay extends within the visa's validity. It is the correct route for the family member handling logistics and translation, which on this corridor is very common.
The eVisa cannot be extended or converted from inside India, so establish the expected duration with the hospital before choosing a visa. Sixty days covers most treatment episodes, but for complex or multi-stage care a regular medical visa from the embassy in Tashkent may be more appropriate. Far better to sort this out before travelling than to discover the limit mid-treatment.
Exactly as it is transliterated on your current passport, character for character. Uzbekistan has moved between Cyrillic and Latin script, so names often appeared differently on older passports — only the current spelling is correct for the visa. Patronymics and gendered endings must match your own document rather than a family member's, and your airline ticket should use the same form.
No. Study at an Indian university requires a student visa arranged through the embassy in Tashkent before you travel, and an eVisa cannot be converted into one once you are in India. Given how many Uzbek students take degrees in India, this is worth being unambiguous about: arriving on a tourist eVisa intending to change it locally does not work.
Fees are set by nationality and duration, so the pricing panel on this page loads live figures for Uzbekistani 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.
Yes — Uzbekistan Airways flies nonstop from Tashkent to Delhi in around three and a half hours, so India is genuinely close. Delhi and adjacent Gurugram have the largest concentration of hospitals serving Central Asian patients, many with Russian-speaking coordinators. From Samarkand, Bukhara or Fergana you would connect via Tashkent.
Yes. The government fee is charged in US dollars and needs a card able to process international transactions, which can be a practical obstacle. The payment card does not have to belong to the traveller, so a family member or colleague abroad can complete the payment on your behalf. Resolve this before you begin rather than mid-application.
Your nationality is already set to Uzbekistan. Complete the form in under ten minutes, and our team will check every detail before it reaches the Indian authorities.
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