India restores e-Visa services for Canadian Passport holders

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India has restored e-visa facility for Canadian passport holders, the High Commission of India, Ottawa, Canada, said early this week. The “e-Visa facility for Canadian passport-holders has been restored, with effect from 20 December 2022,” the Indian High Commission in Ottawa said in a statement.

Those Canadian passport-holders who wish to visit India for tourism, business, medical or conference purposes, may apply for e-Visa at https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/tvoa.html and follow instructions contained therein.

Also, the Consulate General of India, Vancouver mentioned that all categories of E-visas, issued to Canadian passport holders, prior to its suspension in March 2020 and which are still valid, stand restored and will remain valid up to their original validity period.

Canadian passport-holders seeking to travel to India for any purpose, not qualifying for e-Visa, may apply for paper visa at https://www.blsindia-canada.com.

Those who have applied for visa through various BLS Centres in Canada are advised to wait for issuance of the same. All such applications will be processed on priority.

Those applicants who wish to withdraw their respective visa applications may do so by visiting the website https://www.blsindia-canada.com/ and choosing the option for ‘Application Withdrawal’.

Those who have booked appointments to apply for tourist, business, medical or conference visa at BLS Centres in Canada and would, now, like to apply for e-Visa instead, are requested to vacate/cancel their appointment slots so that the same becomes available to others seeking visa/consular services.