visa question brilliance of seas

[julie buck]

Hi, we are a family traveling on the dubai/india cruise on the brillinace of the seas on 9th April 11. I am in the process of completeing visa's and was hoping someone would know what address/ reference we need to put for india:)

[Albert Ross]

Hi, we are a family traveling on the dubai/india cruise on the brillinace of the seas on 9th April 11. I am in the process of completeing visa's and was hoping someone would know what address/ reference we need to put for india:)

 

 

An Indian tourist visa is for multiple entry and costs £30 for a 6 month visa and £50 for a 1 year visa (max 180 days stay per visit), both type of visa incurs a service charge of £9.05.

The Indian Government has outsourced visa processing to VF Services (UK) Ltd and their website is vfsglobal.co.uk

- a 6 month multiple entry tourist visa through them therefore costs £39.05.

 

There are plenty of other visa sites but they charge additional admin costs, for example onestepvisa.com charge an extra £25 for their services making a total of £64.09. TheVisaCompany will charge £103pp (!!!!) so please apply directly via VF Services.

 

A 6 month tourist visa is valid from the date of issue in your passport and not your arrival in India, so please don't apply too many months in advance.

 

 

A cruise guest requires a Tourist visa and when applying you are required to complete an application form. You may be asked to supply a sponsor in India for your trip and your address in India. Please note, this information is not required and you should fill out 'self sponsored' and 'NA' in these 2 sections. Your passport must have a minimum validity of 190 days from after the date of your visit to India and contain at least 2 blank pages. The length of validity for your visa starts from the date it is issued, so please bear this in mind when considering how far in advance of your cruise you wish to apply for the visa.

[Lady Meer]

Just looked at VSFglobal.co.uk - the service charge was increased from 4 January 2011 to £9.24 due to the VAT increase.

[julie buck]

Many thanks for the information