Visitor visas from India, handled end to end

For a simple e-visa you often could apply yourself, and where that is genuinely the case we will tell you rather than take the fee. What we add is narrower than the industry usually claims: catching the silent rejections before they happen. A photograph the system will bounce for glasses or a background. A passport page nobody told you to scan. A nationality rule that changes which route you actually qualify for, which is how people end up applying for the wrong visa entirely. On an e-visa the whole risk sits in a rejected application with no explanation attached to it, because no officer meets you and nobody asks a clarifying question. That is exactly the kind of avoidable error a second set of trained eyes removes, and it is the only thing worth paying for on a route this simple.

Processing time measures the authority's working days from a complete, correctly filed application to a decision. It does not start from the day you first contact us, and it does not count the time your own documents take to gather, which for most people is the longer half of the wait. It also excludes the delays a wrong document creates: a file held for a missing page or a bank statement that has gone stale restarts the clock rather than pausing it, and that restart is invisible in every published figure. So the honest reading of any processing time is processing once filed correctly, which is a narrower promise than it looks. Filing it correctly the first time is most of the speed available on any route, and it is the part that is actually within anybody's control.

An e-visa is decided online and arrives as a PDF by email, usually in days and often without biometrics. Dubai works this way. A sticker visa is a physical visa a consulate affixes to your passport, frequently through VFS Global and sometimes with biometrics, and it involves a real decision by an officer over weeks rather than an automated check over days. Canada and Turkey work this way. The mechanism decides two things that matter more than the country does: how soon you can realistically travel, and how much a file is argued rather than simply submitted. A sticker application is a case you make. An e-visa is a form that passes or fails on its own contents. That is why this hub is grouped by mechanism instead of by continent or by flag.

We file for people all over India, not only Gujarat. Our offices are in Bhavnagar and Ahmedabad, but visitor-visa work is largely document-based and handled over WhatsApp and email, so where you live rarely affects how a case is prepared or how quickly it moves. The one thing that does depend on where you are is jurisdiction, and it depends on it in ways people do not expect. The Turkish consulate, for instance, cares where your passport was issued rather than where you now live, and the Chinese mission cares where you live rather than where your passport was issued. Both rules catch out anybody who has moved states since getting their passport. That is a thing we check and solve at the start, not a reason we cannot act for you. It is the first thing we look at rather than the last.

We file visitor-visa applications for 40+ countries. The 15 detailed below, Canada, Dubai and Turkey among them, are the ones where we have first-hand cost, document and refusal data worth publishing a full page for, which is why those pages carry real figures rather than a summary of the embassy's own website. For the rest we still prepare and file the application in exactly the same way. The detailed guide simply has not been written yet, and we would rather publish nothing than publish a page assembled from other people's blogs. So if your country is not listed here, it does not mean we do not do it. Ask us, and we will tell you plainly whether we have handled that route before and what we know about it. The pages we have not written yet are a gap in our publishing, not in our practice.