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E-Visa facility extended to more airports

AADHAAR-Card-Documents-PassportThe Home Ministry reportedly has given the green signal to extend electronic-Tourist visas (eTV) facility to seven more airports.


Presently, nine airports – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Trivandrum and Kochi – are equipped to accept electronic visas, which also requires biometric identification. The government has now extended it to seven more airports – Ahmedabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Amritsar, Jaipur, Lucknow and Trichy.

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Currently, the facility is extended to Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Finland, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Luxembourg and Laos.


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