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I started my application 5 days ago for an regular paper visa with approximately 30 attempts to complete the application
Every time I reached the upload photo page it crashed, it is now 15/09/2026 and I'm due to go in October
They don't even reply to emails or answer the phone..... A diabolical system

It took me 2 days to apply to my Evisa on the indianvisaonline.gov.in.
I am in England. I started yesterday morning and tried for 4.5 hours. I had to re-do the same file/page sometimes 10 times or more! (not kidding). Today I worked again for 4 hours. Trying to download my photo and then my passport. Terrible! My advice: "save and LEAVE" each time you have filled in a page. In this way you are sure it will be recorded, otherwise if you carry on with the next page you will probalby loose everything, and you will have to do it again. Once everything was recorded and downloaded I had to make the payment. It took me all day because it failed twice and I had to wait 3 hours between tentative of payment. The third time I changed the bank provider and it worked. I quickly took a photo of my laptop screen to save the positive result which disappeared few seconds later! So, another advice use your mobile phone camera to take pictures of important info. Also, the AI helped me a lot during the whole process, so I would advise using some like Claude or Grok if you struggle with downloading the photo or else as it gives precious info.
Therefore, the positive thing is that I made it in 48 hours! Be patient. I paid about 35£ on this official website when on others not official they were asking for over 100£. Good luck to all!

What I find so amazing is that in a country of 1 billion computer programmers, they can't build a better visa application form than this. It is very confusing, it is cluttered and doesn't save data so you have to fill everything in multiple times.
Have completed a lot of tourist visa applications for lots of countries, but I have never been this frustrated.

Aauugghhh It took me 5+ hrs to fill out the application for my trip in Oct. When I saved and continued it would bring the page back empty where I just filled out - several times! Then I finally got to the where- have you traveled in India part which was 6 years ago. I went looking and found the info. I began putting the info in and said I took too long- maybe 20 minutes And had to start over again at the beginning! I finally got to payment and for 2 days now it says they don’t have me in their system even tho I received an email with my info to pay! I tried google to pay because I was using safari with no results. I have just emailed them! Worst website ever!!!

Got nothing else to do with your life? want to waste hours and hours and hours while screaming at your screen? want to see what the worst website is in the world? yet need to use it if you want to invest in Indian companies or travel and spend money in their country as a foreigner? then go to the Indian visa website. THE MOST EMBARRASSING AND TERRIBLE WEBSITE EVER CREATED BEYOND 2001. Will make you give up the will to live let alone travel to India. When this country exports the best computer programmers and UX designers in the world, the visa website is the portal to just how awful a visa process could be. Indian Government should be embarrassed and ashamed of just how bad this website is for everyone applying. Plan to have at least 3 days completely free, and do nothing else but scream as it crashes and fails and doesn't save your info and makes you want to cancel ever trying to go to India and spend your money!

I really don't know where to start. I am no 6 days in applying for a visa for my son. I never get to reach the last page to upload the documents and there is nobody to turn to. I have a whole family holiday resting on this and nobody can or is willing to help. Every route prevents you from speaking to a human for advise and I am now at my witts end and about to lose £15k because of sheer incompetance of the Indian government visa site. If anybody knows how I can expedite the process please let me know.

The visa website is terrible, not enough space for data, no guidance on what symbols are not allowed. This time around i applied for a business visa to attend some customer sites and a run a conference my company ran. I have always attended on a business visa before. This time i had my visa refused after a 3 week wait and told to raise a conference visa. This was also then refused and told to raise a business visa. madness

Absolute disaster!
Completed data are not saved, tried 7 times and had to give up for today... have no time for sitting on this site the whole day.

The Indian eVisa website is honestly one of the worst government portals I have ever used.

It feels like a third-rate, outdated system that has not been properly updated or tested in years. The layout is confusing, instructions are unclear, and the entire process is unnecessarily complicated.

Uploading documents is a nightmare, the photo specifications are excessive and poorly explained, and the system frequently throws vague error messages that give you no real guidance on how to fix the issue. Pages time out unexpectedly, forcing you to start over, which is incredibly frustrating.

For a country of India’s global standing and technological reputation, this platform is shockingly below standard. It lacks basic usability, modern design principles, and proper user testing.

This website urgently needs a complete overhaul. At the moment, it creates stress and confusion instead of providing a smooth visa application experience.

SACK THE PEOPLE WHO DESIGNED AND TESTED THE WEBSITE. BLOODY USELESS

Shockingly awful website and service level. An immensely frustrating and time-wasting experience. A terrible first impression of India.

After crashing repeatedly on my wife for named and un-named errors over the course of 2 days (sending you back to the beginning each time), she finally got our visas in. Like, they kept on rejecting the pictures, but not saying why. To be clear, my wife is native Indian, has two law degrees, and is highly computer-literate.

Then, at the airport... we discover... she missed a digit.

Now, on any other website, if you try to enter a phone number, or a credit card number, or a zip code (or a passport number!), with the wrong number of digits, it stops you. This is basic data validation. India whatever dot whatever apparently doesn't aspire to the same high standard as any corner bodega where you get on their mailing list. So now thousands of dollars of tickets and vacation time are at risk, not to mention some 80-year-olds getting to see their grand-daughter, because the passport of an 8-year-old is missing a digit. Because the airline is scared sh-tless of Indian customs. "We do this for another country," they say, "but India will send her home."

This website is not even worth a one-star, and the ridiculous thing about it is that the indian govarment is doing NOTHING regarding any improvement!!
Sooooo typical!!!

For a country with millions of software developers, for this to be the experience of foreign nationals highlights is a discredit to all Indians.

The site was always poorly structured, the form (unnecessarily) difficult to complete but in the recent few months it is crashing on a regular basis. In the last 48 hours I have been unable to submit all details for a visa using multiple devices and browsers (after clearing cache)

Absolutely pathetic. Just slow and always crashing. This is what happens when bunch of fools design a website. They have no idea how frustrating this is because they would never have an opportunity to go out and apply for visa. They purposly make it so annoying so they can ask for more money from the government and try to improve it.. Unsuccessfully, of course!

If I could give less than 1 star I would. The whole application process feels like a punishment for wanting to visit India. I can concur with everything everyone else has said. I have been trying for days to get a simple tourist evisa but I am going to have to use a ripoff agency. The application form will not allow me to fill in details and today, the final straw...the drop-down "visa service" menu does not drop down so I cannot proceed from Page 1. I have telephoned the "help line" £25 spent to listen to an automated response. On the second call, it told me that I would be put through to an "evisa support executive" after holding on for about 5 minutes, they hung up on me. In addition, I tried to make an appointment to go to the Indian Consulate in Birmingham for a paper tourist visa. It is again an automated service which informed me that the next available appointment is 22/11/26. I am travelling at the end of February 2026!

I should have given zero star but no option but to select one. Absolute sham, time wasting, too slow, feel like you are hitting a wall every time you fill info multiple times but it won't process and won't take you to the next page. Hidden column(s) and you will keep on getting error message that you didn't fill the hidden column ??? Come on India you can do much much better.........

Most terrible website existing in the world. No improvement and customer care people are terrible too, no improvement in their services too. Is this how India will become a developed country?

What an absolute sham...how difficult is it? Website doesn't function very well in the first place. It gets worse...This is just for a transit visa, I send them as requested, my flight tickets dated 12th Jan entering India and again during my return on 9th Feb...so they issue a visa for the 29th December for 30 days!!!! Absolute retards, now they tell me I have to have another visa for the return journey, they get it wrong and now it's my problem.

I applied for E-Visas for my Son and Daughter with not so good quality of Photographs (which I go to know later), they rejected my Daughter's application but approving my Son's. Ofcourse they don't refund the money back.
They have such a poor Website, c'mon please do not accept the Photograph if it is of bad quality. They need to work and invest Money on their Website.

This is by far the worst web site for applications I have used in 20 years, keeps crashing , does not save data, I followed the instructions about clearing casche, browsing history etc.., made zero difference even used different browsers.. took me 4 hours to finally complete my applicaion, now i need to do my wife's, time I will never get back

Who ever is in charge of sign off on this crap needs to be fired and if India wants a tourist industry it better pull its finger out as this is going to switch people completely off