Visamundi now speaks Hindi, simplified chinese and arabic

These three languages join French, English, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese: you can now fill out your application in nine languages. This decision is backed by official figures showing where today’s travellers come from.

Nine languages for one application

A visa application demands precision. A reversed birth date, a misspelled name, a misunderstood prior trip question—and the application can be refused or blocked. Reading these questions in your own language reduces this risk, especially when the form is completed by a parent acting on behalf of an entire family.

Until now, our six languages mainly covered Europe and the Americas. The three new languages open the form to travellers who, without them, had to use English. Arabic is displayed right-to-left, as it is read.

Simplified Chinese: 335 million border crossings in 2025

On 28 January 2026, China’s National Immigration Administration published its 2025 report: 697 million border crossings, an all-time high. Residents of mainland China accounted for 335 million of these crossings, up 15.1 % year-on-year, whether entering or leaving.

The same report notes that 20.9 million ordinary passports were issued in 2025. Every new passport represents a potential traveller. Simplified Chinese—official script for mainland China and Singapore—was the missing piece in reaching these travellers directly.

At Visamundi, applications from mainland China and Singapore currently make up less than 1 % of our total. The gap here underscores what this language addition means for the international travel landscape.

Hindi: departures on the rise and a global diaspora

In India, government dashboards show that 32.83 million Indian nationals departed in 2025, a 6.3 % increase from 2024. These figures come from the country’s Bureau of Immigration, which tracks every exit from India’s borders.

Complementing these departures is a significant diaspora. India’s Ministry of External Affairs counts 37.3 million Indians and people of Indian origin abroad (as of January 2026)—6.1 million in the United States, 4.3 million in the United Arab Emirates, 3.2 million in Canada and 2.8 million in Saudi Arabia. Those retaining Indian nationality travel using an Indian passport and therefore face visa requirements from the destination country’s rules—not those of the foreign country where they reside.

Hindi, the official language of the Indian Union, is the choice we’ve made for this audience. It does not cover the full linguistic diversity of India, and English remains available for those who prefer it. Indian travellers are still rare among those we assist—precisely the group this new language aims to reach.

Arabic: more than 400 million speakers

UNESCO describes Arabic as one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, used daily by over 400 million people.

Of the three new languages, Arabic is the one whose speakers are already most represented in our user base. Over the past 12 months, nationals from countries where Arabic is the official language accounted for about 3 % of all Visamundi-assisted travellers: including Moroccans, Emiratis, Saudis, Algerians, Mauritanians, Comorians, Egyptians, Tunisians and Sudanese—but also Djiboutians, Lebanese, Kuwaitis and Qataris.

Visa requirements can vary depending on citizenship and destination. Filling out the form in Arabic is especially helpful when application rules for your target country are complex.

Translation applies to the form you complete. It does not change the documents required by authorities, processing times or consular fees: these remain determined by the destination country, regardless of the language in which you filled out your application.