Visa for Andaman and Nicobar Island

Passport and Visas

Foreigners

All foreign nationals can stay in the islands for 30 days. This can be extended by another 15 days with permission. The required permit can be easily obtained Free of Cost from the Immigration counter at Port Blair Airport or Harbour upon arrival on production of their passports containing a valid Indian Visa.

The places covered by this permit for night halt are: South Andaman Island, Middle Andaman Island and Little Andaman Island (except tribal reserve), Neil Island, Havelock Island, Long Island, Diglipur, & Baratang.

Indians

Indian nationals need no permit to visit Andamans. However, permits are required to visit Nicobar Islands and other tribal areas, which are given in exceptional cases. Application on a prescribed form may be addressed to the Deputy Commissioner, Andaman District, Port Blair.

Tourist Visa:
The application for a tourist visa should be made out on the prescribed form and submitted together with two passport photos along with the passport to the Embassy or Consulate of India. Any frequent traveller to India should apply for a visa allowing entry over a longer period, but every visit should not last longer than six months.

The Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) in Pondicherry is at
Pondicherry Housing Board,
Office Complex (Third Floor),
Anna Nagar, Nellithope,
Pondicherry 605005.
Tel +91-413-337243, 337122

Restricted and Protected areas:

The following areas which were restricted till recently have now been entirely opened. This means foreign tourists can visit these areas without any restricted area permit:

DARJEELING (West Bengal), ENTIRE Assam, Meghalaya AND Tripura.

Foreign tourists still require restricted area permit to visit the following areas:

Arunachal Pradesh, ANDAMAN NICOBAR ISLANDS, Lakshadweep,Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim and certain areas of Himachal Pradesh and JAMMU and KASHMIR.

Restricted area permit can be obtained from the Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi, Indian missions abroad, Foreigners Regional Registration Offices (FRRO) in India, Residence Commissioners of respective state governments based in Delhi and Home Commissioners of each state capitals.

Application for restricted area permit has to be made at least 6 weeks in advance.

For Andaman & Nicobar Islands, entry permit can also be obtained from the Chief Immigration Officers at Madras, Calcutta and Port Blair. Restricted area permit for Sikkim, Andaman & Nicobar Islands can also be obtained on the spot.

Health Regulation

No vaccination certifacate is required for entry into India except the persons travelling to India through yellow fever endemic countries (certain African and Latin American countries) are required to have yellow fever vaccination certificate confirming to International Health regulations.

Airport Tax

Passengers embarking on journey to any place outside India from a Customs airport will have to pay an airport tax of Rs. 300.00. For journeys to Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives - Rs. 150.00

Income Tax Clearance

All visitors who are not domiciled in India are exempted from income tax clearance certificates at the time of leaving the country provided that the total period spent in India does not exceed 6 months and that they were not engaged in gainful employment.

Customs Regulations

All personal objects which you need are free from duty, i.e., personal jewellery, one camera with twelve film magazines or five rolls of film. One mini-camerawith two reels of film. One pair of binoculars, one portable musical instrument, one video-camera, one record-player, with ten records, one transistor, one portable cassette player, one portable typewriter, as well as presents to the value of Rs. 500, 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 250 gram of tobacco and 1.00 Iitres of alcoholic or liquor are free of duty. Certain types of weapons are forbidden, and for those types which are allowed a possession-licence is required.The information contained in this brochure is a guide only, and can change without notice.