Archive · 4 Oct 2025
India Launches e-Arrival Card for Foreign Travelers
If you're visiting India, get ready for a change!
Instead of filling out a paper form on the plane, you now need to complete an e-arrival card online before your flight.
This online form, which is free, asks for basic information like your passport number.
The goal is to speed up the process and avoid long lines at the airport.
Make sure to fill it out 72-24 hours before you fly to make your arrival easier.
Indian citizens don't need to worry about this new rule.
India has launched a mandatory e-arrival card for foreign travelers.
The digital form replaces the traditional paper disembarkation card.
The e-arrival card must be completed online between 72 and 24 hours before the flight.
The online form requires basic information such as passport number and contact details.
This change aims to ease airport congestion and streamline immigration.
- Who
- Non-Indian nationals.
- What
- Mandatory e-arrival card implemented.
- When
- Effective October 1st.
- Where
- India.
- Why
- To streamline immigration and ease congestion.
Travelers
Government
Process
Travelers
Concerned about the extra step of needing to complete the e-arrival card.
Government
Focused on streamlining the immigration process and making the process easier.
- Policy Change
- Mandatory e-arrival card replaces paper forms
- Implementation Date
- October 1st
- Affected Group
- Non-Indian nationals
- Submission Time
- 72-24 hours before flight
- Submission Method
- Online via India Bureau of Immigration website
- Cost
- Free
- Purpose
- Streamline immigration
