Indianvisaonline Reviews

This website is incredibly and unbelievably AWFUL!! I can't believe it's the official one of the Indian government. They should be ashamed of themselves!! The site bounces you off the page and then gives you the same one over and over and over to fill out. Then it times you out!! Then you try to call and either get hung up on or put on hold with someone saying you will be helped in 4 minutes, but after 40 minutes it still says the same thing. I have been traveling the world for 60+ years and this is the worst experience I have ever had, anywhere, and I have been in some crazy places!! Really, India, can't you do better than this????? With all of your IT experts, you give us this very awful website to get an e-visa? This has to be costing you thousands of tourists and millions of dollars each year. Get your act together!! And clean up the sites that you say rob us of our money. The consumer really has no good information - you should all be very ashamed of yourselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Date of experience: April 24, 2024

Worse people to deal with, Apllied Evisa for my Kid, My wife made mistake in passport Number while filling the application and they Issued a Visa with the Wrong Passport Number even they had Passport copy attached with the Application and without verifying detail with the passport. Then we applied visa again with the correct Passport number and they rejected by replying that my kid already has a Valid Visa, There are illiterate people siting there and issuing and rejecting visa without checking/Matching any Detail with the Passport. Emailed them and try to clarify but no reply from them also called them several time but answer machine putting on hold hold and hold. THEY Just Need Money this is their MOTTO....indianvisaonline.gov.in

Date of experience: March 22, 2024

The service provided by this company is unacceptable. They have taken over £30 from my account and rejected my visa application, citing an unclear picture. Despite my attempts to re-upload the image, the website malfunctioned. I reached out via email and spent 40 minutes attempting to contact them by phone, only to be denied a refund.

Date of experience: March 03, 2024

the webside has the worst user interface I have ever encountert. load time is insumontable long, link 20 min,
had to restart the process probably 10 time. It did't save the progress correctly.
I simply can't believe this is an government website.
It is so horrible!

the only saving grace is: the processing of the actual application, which took next to no time.

But honestly I have never encountered a visa process which left me so frustrated that I'm kinda not happy to visit anymore.

A BIG L for this!

Date of experience: February 11, 2024

The website is laborious and difficult. It loses contact, cuts you off. When you do manage to to get your application ID accepted, over an hour later and having to log in and log out numerous times, you find some of your answers have been changed!!!! Things have been added and subtracted. Be very careful you check everything again. Our first attempt with changing the size of photos to ridiculously small examples and looking up where to find a citizen's ID number etc took us over 4 hours.

Date of experience: November 11, 2023

Awful process. Passport and application letter needed to be converted and were too big. Had to use adobe services online to compress. Not happy about the formatting as did not accept commas in addresses or +44 for UK on phone numbers. No explanation to why parts of form needed correcting and how. Lots of guessing. 2 hours later it let me complete and wanted 100 USD payment. Used paypal. When I asked for a generated receipt the website gave a 500 server error/404 Page not found. India sort your visa site out. Most would think it was a pathetic attempt to scam people.

Date of experience: December 16, 2023

I used the official Indian Government website and paid a total of £67 and a few pennies for a 5 year tourist eVisa. I completed my application at 19:41 on a Tuesday evening and received notification that my eVisa was granted at 15:42 the following day. I emailed a query re downloading of the eVisa and this was responded to at 19:06. It seems from some of the reviews that people are visiting third party sites rather than the official Indian Government site. Speak as you find, I have no complaints with the service.

Date of experience: August 02, 2023

This is probably the worst website I have ever used, period. For a wonderful country that prides itself in IT industry, it's a complete disaster! By far the worst part of visiting India is creating the visas: I got used to the endless bureaucracy and red tape by now, it's got its charms, too. But I will never get used to the crazy amount of errors and bad design on this site...

Date of experience: January 24, 2019

do not use this service it is a complete ripoff. They ask you for information once that is complete they send you the govt visa application form and charge through the nose for it. do not use this rip off website.

Date of experience: December 11, 2023

Beware of Indian visa online --do not go to this site for appliication eVisa India Application Online | Official India eVisa Site‎


They charge 4 times the fees for service without telling prior providing service -- typical rip off and ridiculous --dangerous
we did visa that cost US $80 ($40x2 people ) we were charged Aus$380 and we are not told about service charge (4 times)plus there are other options like 5 yr visa

Date of experience: November 26, 2019

This site is a SCAM. They wanted USD$159 for a visa for India. The actual proce of the visa, directly from the Indian Government is only USD $40. Luckly the payment processing for my visa didnt work on this site but I feel very uncomfortable tha they have all my information now! DO NOT USE THIS SITE

Date of experience: January 04, 2023

It is a scam.
We were on their web page and proceeded with the application for a visa for India. Before confirming, we saw the price for this visa which was about 165USD.
So we decided not to proceed - BUT they still debited our account without our authorization. And now they refuse to refund us.
Again, we did not use their service!

Date of experience: September 01, 2022

Just use the original Indian visa site. Indiavissonline try to look like the original visa site so you will use them and pay them $65 Per person in fee. I compleeted the aplication and it was first when I had to pay I realised it was not the original site. I do not feel comfortable that thet have all my informations, I have afsked them to delete them, they have not answered...

Date of experience: September 19, 2018

Ok I am loosing my mind now.
Applied for a visa on Saturday 18th and make the payment requested but the Status of my visa still appear to be "not-paid". I even called the Call center number on the website, the operatore was pretty rude and she hung up on me. tried to call numerous time and guess what..??? line is always busy now.
If you have to request a Visa to India, please never use this website
indianvisaonline.gov

Date of experience: November 20, 2017

Whoever designed the india visa website ought to be locked up for a very long time indeed, it is an absolute disaster and expensive. If we had not already paid we would cancel our holiday. India you should be trully ashamed

Date of experience: July 17, 2018

This is the worst government website and visa application process I have ever had. And I'm from Brazil, where websites suck

Date of experience: December 12, 2023

They are a fraudulent site. They charge 5 times to provide expedited service but all they are doing is passing the information to government site. Customer service is pathetic. BE AWARE OF THIS FRAUDULENT SITE..

Date of experience: December 14, 2019

Absolutely horrendous. Makes you want to never set foot in India. Don't believe the 24 hour phone and e-mail support. Called 17 times over 2 weeks and phone was answered once by a woman who said 'hmph'. When I asked her if it was Indian Visa Centre she said 'hmph' and hung up on me. Called back 6 times with no answer. Website doesn't work.

Date of experience: December 04, 2019

This appears to be the official site to get your Indian eVisa. I have yet to fly but if I don't update this review in a few days time to complain, assume that the eVisa I have received worked without an issue!

The application process is quite simple but the form is certainly not the easiest to get through as it can ask some odd questions (which I suppose are relevant to some groups of people but not others).

Some odd (required to be answered) questions were asked, such as:

- it asked my religion (but did not offer an an answer of "atheist")
- asked for any identifying marks on my skin (such as tattoos, of which I have none)
- for a contact in India (such as a friend staying there or the hotel you plan to be at)

It required that I had to upload a picture of myself which was 2 inches by 2 inches in size. So I created the image, then when I got to the page to actually submit the image, it had changed its mind and said that I must upload a picture of at least size 300px by 300px.

It also required that I upload a picture of my passport, in PDF format (why not a JPG?), but most importantly, it had to be under 300KB. It's quite hard to get a good quality photo sent in PDF format while also trying to juggle file sizes. In the end I sent a slightly blurry (but still readable) PDF and there were no complications.

Getting an eVisa is far faster (they only took 24 hours to process my application) and easier than going to an embassy or whatever other options there are, but I feel that the process could still be made a lot easier.

Date of experience: January 11, 2018

absolutely scams in Manchester they charging £116 for each visa,also they charging for any minimum things they do,so rude people and they don't have any respect for anyone,so I have cancelled my travel and goodbye for rude people

Date of experience: January 24, 2023