Applying for a VISA from the United Kingdom to India? Worried about the procedure? We will cover all your queries here. Applying for Visa from abroad isn’t as back-breaking as you might imagine.
As a UK passport holder, you may start with applying for Visa online, for India Visa from the UK, for India Visa from London. The Indian government may issue an eVisa through email when accepted. Let’s have a look at all the do’s and dont’s you must know before applying for a Visa.
LONG TERM VISA:
A long term Visa may be that when you apply for a Visa for around 1 to 5 year or more with multiple re-enteries. On a maximum the Indian government may allow you for a 180 days per trip. There are generally two ways of applying a long term Visa, i.e by appointment in person or by post.
- APPOINTMENT BY PERSON:
This may for all those planning for a Visa for 5 years as they need to provide with their biometric information. The process of applying for Visa through the application will be carried out according to these mentioned locations as per the availability of the VFS Visa centre by appointment. They are currently available at London (Goswell Road, Hounslow) Birmingham, Edinburgh, Manchester, Belfast, Bristol, Bradford, Newcastle, Cardiff, Liverpool, Leicester, and Glasgow.
- BY POST:
These are availed for all those who cannot be physically present for interviews, although the process of Visa by appointment is easier and time efficient than by post. The process through post may generally take a week or two more than the other and the VFS arent responsible for your passport.
All those applying with an Indian oci may have beneficial services of multiple entries life long visa which enables the holders to have unlimited travel and stay in India. The next few steps would be the part of application filling which may require your personal details as DOB, email, date of arrival, passport details, applicants address details, family details, marital status, parents/Grandparents Pakistan Nationals or Belong to Pakistan, profession, and previous Visa details.
Following the process of uploading your passport size photo of JPEG format and no larger than 1mb in size, a width of 350 pixels and height of 350 pixels. Use of a new passport size photograph with the white background may be suggested rather than a scanned copy.
Once done with the above process, print out the application form downloaded from the Indian Visa site. Sign both the sheets, one inside the both provided on the front page and the other at the bottom of the second sheets to exactly match with your passport signatures and photographs wherever needed.
Thereafter taking you to your next step of making payments or booking appointments for a long term Visa. For all those booking an appointment make sure that to be prepared with all the documents and also pay for the Visa online itself by clicking onto the top left corner of the home page to corresponding Visa Fee & Pay Details. The final step will be prepared for the appointment. Best of luck!