Government of India notifies 11 more International Ports, enabling entry of E-Visa holder foreigners into India

Ministry of Home Affairs Government of India notifies 11 more International Ports, enabling entry of E-Visa holder foreigners into India Total number of International Ports for E-Visa holder foreigners’ entry now goes up to 88 Addition of 11 International Ports further enhances attractiveness and utility of electronic visa, India provides approximately 95% E-visas applications in less than 72 hours Under guidance of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and leadership of Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah, Government has taken a number of significant initiatives over the last few years to liberalize, streamline and simplify visa regime प्रव तथ: 10 AUG 2026 5:43PM by PIB Delhi The Government of India has notified 11 more International Ports, enabling E-visa holder foreigners to enter India. The newly added 11 International Ports include 09 land ports and 02 airports. Addition of 11 International Ports further enhances attractiveness and utility of electronic visa. Notably, India provides approximately 95% E-visas applications in less than 72 hours.

Under the guidance of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and leadership of Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah, Government of India has taken a number of significant initiatives over the last few years to liberalize, streamline and simplify visa regime with a view to facilitate the legitimate foreign travelers while simultaneously ramping up the technological infrastructure to enhance internal security.

With the latest addition, the total number of International Ports enabling entry of E-Visa holder foreigners has increased to 88, including 37 airports, 38 seaports and 13 land ports.

List of International Ports, enabling entry of E-visa holder foreigners in India, as on date- Sl. No. Airports Seaports Landports

1. Ahmedabad Agatti Raxaul

2. Amritsar Alang Rupaidiha3. Bagdogra Bedi Bandar Darranga

4. Bhogapuram Bhavnagar Jogbani

5. Bengaluru Calicut Agartala (Newly Added)

6. Bhubaneswar Chennai Darranga (Newly Added)

7. Calicut Cochin Gede (Newly Added)

8. Chandigarh Cuddalore Ghojadanga (Newly Added)

9. Chennai Dahej Haridaspur (Newly Added)

10. Cochin Dhamra Jaigaon (Newly Added)

11. Coimbatore Haldia Dawki (Newly Added)

12. Delhi Hazira Moreh (Newly Added)

13. Gaya Kakinada Attari (Road) (Newly Added)

14. Goa (Dabolim) Ennore – Kamarajar

15. Goa (Mopa) Kandla

16. Guwahati Karaikal

17. Hyderabad Kattupalli

18. Indore Kolkata

19. Jaipur Kollam

20. Kannur Krishnapatnam21. Kolkata Mandvi

22. Lucknow Mormugao

23. Madurai Mumbai

24. Mangalore Mundra

25. Mumbai Nagapattinam

26. Nagpur New Mangalore

27. Navi Mumbai Nhava Sheva

28. Port Blair Paradeep

29. Pune Pipavav

30. Surat Porbandar

31. Thiruvananthapuram Port Blair

32. Trichy Sikka

33. Varanasi Tuna Tekra

34. Vijaywada Tuticorin

35. Visakhapatnam Vallarpadam

36. Bhopal (Newly Added) Visakhapatnam

37. Tirupati (Newly Added) Vizhinjam – Kovalam

38. Vizhinjam Total 37 38 13 E-VISA One significant step taken to liberalize and simplify the Indian Visa regime, especially the tourist visa regime, is the introduction of the e-Visa facility. E-visa facility, with Electronic Travel Authorization

(ETA), was introduced in 2014 for nationals of 43 countries. This facility is presently available to nationals of 172 countries.E-Visa is presently available under following 17 sub-categories:

Sl. No. Category

1. Tourist

2. Mountaineering

3. B-1 B-2

4.

B-3 (Business Visa)

5.

B-4

6. B-5 B-6

7.

8.

9. M-1 M-2 (Medical Visa)

10.

M-3

11.

M-4

12.

13. S-1 S-2 (Student Visa)

14.

15. Transit

16. X-1 (Miscellaneous)

17. Group Visitor Visa (Cruise) It is pertinent to mention that India now issues roughly 78% visas as Electronic visas. *** RK / RR / PR / PS (रलीज़ आईडी: 2297227) आगंतुक पटल : 2101 इस वज्ञ को इन भाषाओ ंम पढ़: Assamese , Odia , Urdu , ही , Marathi , Bengali , Manipuri , Punjabi , Gujarati , Tamil , Telugu , Kan nada , Malayalam