charm of India is difficult to convey in words.This is the beauty of majestic temples and lazy languor series of beaches of Goa and Kerala, and seething life of Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata.The mild climate, warm as fresh milk, water, pine forests, mountains and gardens - a real tourist paradise!Not surprisingly, the flow of tourists in this country is increasing every year.And a large part of them are Russians.
Our compatriots love to spend a vacation in India - it is an indisputable fact.Some tourists visiting Goa once or Mumbai, come back there every year.They already know which hotel better to stay familiar with the peculiarities of the visa regime and customs control.But only part of the Russian travelers planning to visit this fabulous region, and they have a lot of questions.For example, you need a visa to India?And if needed, how to get it?
Whether India visa
Despite the fact that India is very developed tourist industry, the country has not introduced a visa-free regime.Therefore, the question "Do I need a visa to India," The answer is simple: we need.Permission to enter is necessary to draw all categories of citizens - tourists, citizens, who came to relatives, travel, transit travelers, and so on. D.
However, in order to attract tourists and to facilitate the procedure for obtaining permission to enter the country's government has introduced a visa exemptions for citizens of certain countries,including for residents of the Russian Federation.This so-called visa on arrival, which can receive tourist groups from 4 persons immediately after landing.
Visa to India: requirements for entering the country
Upon arrival to the customs control is necessary to fill in a migration card.Usually forms handed out on the plane and the flight attendants are accessed helping to fill the column.But it is useful to prepare yourself - print an example of filling the migration card and take it with a black or blue pen.Forms need to be completed separately for each person, including children.Columns should be written in block Latin letters.
Those who come to the country for a period of six months or more, you must register with the police within 2 weeks of arrival.If the term - one year or more, you need to be in possession of a certificate of absence of HIV antibodies.
When you are in the country, you can extend the visa for another year.This will also need help on the absence of antibodies to HIV.
Important: a tourist visa can not be extended in India, it can only be done abroad.That is, go get a new permit, and then come back.
If someone offers to extend the tourist visa on the spot, you should know that this fraudulent activity aimed at extortion of money for phony service.Remember that violation of the visa regime in India leading to criminal liability.
How to get a visa
There are several types of visas: tourist, transit, student, and so on. P. More often than not make out tourist visas, so discuss them in more detail.There are several basic ways to get permission to enter:
1. The visa on arrival in India.It is issued to citizens of several countries.And it is available to citizens of Russia, but only to visit Goa.It can get a person in case of a sudden death of a relative (need official documents to prove this fact), transit travelers (stay in the country up to 72 hours) and the tourist group (from 4 persons and more).In the latter case, you must pre-register the route through the Indian travel agency.
2. Self-apply for a visa to India.
3. Buy a tour agency.In this case, employees of the company act as proxies, and bought yourself permission to enter the country.
Visa-free entry into India is allowed only to citizens of Nepal and Bhutan.
How to make their own visa
To obtain permission to enter should contact the Embassy of India (it is in Moscow) or the consulates of India, located in Vladivostok and St. Petersburg.When handling is necessary to submit documents for visa to India.For each type of permission to enter there is a list of documents, but these lists are approximate.That is, the visa officer may ask for additional help, as well as the right to refuse without giving a reason.But this happens very rarely.
Documents
To make a visa to India, you will need the following documents:
1. The questionnaire, filled out in English.
2. Valid passport.
3. The application for a permit, completed in English and in duplicate.
4. Two color photos of 3 × 4.
6. Copies of air tickets, hotel booking confirmation or invitation and a copy of the passport of the inviting person.
7. Copies of the Russian and foreign passport.
8. A copy of the child's birth certificate (for those traveling with children).
9. Consent to the departure of one of the parents, in cases where the child is traveling with family or friends.
10. If a tourist is an employee of any of the media, he had to fill out a separate form.
cost and delays in obtaining
processing time for Russian citizens is 5 working days.For members of the media of the RF period is increased to 20 days.The visa fee in the conventional sense of the word no.But there is a fee for processing the necessary papers - 1600 rub.She is charged with every human being, including those with minor children.
cost of visas through a travel agency is 65-75 euros.The same charge for obtaining a visa upon arrival.
What to look at registration documents
have passport before expiry shall be not less than six months.Consent to the departure of the child and copies of the documents inviting party should be notarized.
If you plan to visit another country after a holiday in Goa, transit visa.Visa-free transit through India does not exist.
Whether a visa to India, especially the pre-modern?After all, today, many travel agencies offer assistance in obtaining permits on arrival.This informal process in which lime formed groups that are eligible for a visa at the airport.Should such a service is about 180 euros.But there is a downside - the group must come and go at the same time, and if the first is no problem, then the second, they are quite possible.Indeed, sometimes the travel agency (namely, they are responsible for such tour groups) can not gather all the participants.It also happens that some of them have left the limits of Goa, which is strictly prohibited.
Customs regulations of India
At airports a system of "green-red" corridor.The green bar is designed for those who does not import goods subject to duties.Red - for the citizens of the restrictive list of goods.
can not import products into India from the quarantine list.Of course, for a bag of sunflower seeds tourist would not be arrested, or even sanctions, most likely, not apply, but nevertheless it is not necessary to bring to the conflict.In general, we can say that the punishment will be adequately violation - for a small omission traveler faces a verbal warning, but the smuggling of currency, gold or drugs is prosecuted to the fullest extent.
India - an amazing and magical country, a paradise for all those who dreamed of a good rest.Every tourist who has ever been here a long time will remember the trip as one of the most enjoyable adventure in your life.Enjoy your vacation!
