Visa on Arrival for Japanese nationals from today

The Visa on Arrival will be given to Japanese nationals from today. This facility will be available at six airports Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad. In a release, Home Ministry said, this facility can be availed for the purposes of business, tourism, conference and medical. The Validity of this visa after entry will be for a



period of 30 days. 

About one lakh 80 thousand Japanese nationals visit India every year on various kinds of visas. Business and Tourist Visas constitute around 78 per cent of these. It is expected that extension of this facility to Japanese nationals will further strengthen the business and tourism ties between the two countries.