An e-visa is a country's visa issued entirely online, with no trip to the consulate and no passport to mail. Visamundi handles the official form, the OCR of your passport to pre-fill the file, the consistency check and the submission to the right authority. You track progress in real time and receive your approval by e-mail, in PDF format, ready to show at boarding. 80% of files come back within 24 to 72 hours.
Why an e-visa
More and more countries have replaced the paper visa stuck in the passport with an e-visa: a genuine visa, but issued entirely online and tied to your passport number. e-Visa for India, Egypt, Turkey, Vietnam or Cambodia: the principle is the same everywhere, fill in an official form, pay the consular fees and receive an approval tied to your travel document. Be careful not to confuse it with a mere travel authorisation such as the ESTA (United States) or the ETA (United Kingdom): those are not visas, they are meant for visa-exempt travellers and are covered on our ETA & authorisations page. An e-visa, by contrast, is required when your nationality genuinely needs a visa to enter. The time saved is real, but the smallest data-entry mistake can trigger a refusal, and each programme has its own rules, date formats and eligibility criteria.
That is exactly where Visamundi steps in. We turn a scattered administrative process, often in English, riddled with tricky fields and hard-to-read official sites, into a single guided journey. OCR reads your passport and pre-fills most fields, our checking engine verifies the consistency of the information before submission (exact spelling, passport validity, authorised length of stay), and the submission goes to the relevant official authority. You only pay transparent fees, with consular fees shown separately from our support service, so there is never a hidden mark-up buried inside an official-looking total.
Beyond the individual traveller, the e-visa has become an operational issue for travel professionals. A tour operator booking a tour in India, a platform selling trips online, a mobility team sending people on assignment: all need to obtain dozens or hundreds of authorisations without tying up an agent. Our REST API, our signed webhooks and our sandbox environment make it possible to automate these requests end to end, with consolidated tracking and real-time alerts.
It is also important to distinguish what an e-visa allows and what it does not. An e-visa generally covers a short stay for tourism, family or business, with a duration and number of entries set by the programme. It replaces neither a work visa, nor a student visa, nor a long stay, and some nationalities remain ineligible depending on the country. Confusing these categories means risking a refusal at boarding or being turned away on arrival. Our role is to steer you to the right document from the outset: we check your eligibility, the stated purpose and the entry point before the form is even filled in, so that no surprise awaits you at the border.
Without support
The four situations that most often derail an e-visa request done alone, on an official site or through an opaque intermediary.
One typo, one refusal
A misspelled name, a reversed date, a wrong passport number: the authorisation is tied to the wrong document and becomes useless at boarding. You have to start over and pay again.
Wrong programme, wrong country
Confusing ESTA with an e-visa, choosing the tourist visa when you needed the transit authorisation, or aiming at the wrong entry point: every category mistake costs a delay and extra fees.
Misleading sites and hidden fees
Some intermediaries inflate official fees without saying so, or charge for an invisible service. You no longer know what goes to the state and what goes to the provider.
No visibility on progress
Once the request is sent, it goes silent. No status, no alert, no clear recourse if the authority asks for an extra document or if the delay stretches close to departure.
Our strengths
Four pillars that cover speed of approval, file reliability, integration for professionals and peace of mind throughout the tracking, all the way to approval.
Everything happens online, with no appointment and no passport to mail. The journey is designed to take you from the first entry to approval within a few hours in most cases, even when you start your request the day before departure.
The leading cause of refusal is a data-entry error. We eliminate it by reading your passport and checking every field before submission to the official authority, so a single typo never costs you a flight or a fresh round of fees.
For tour operators and platforms, the e-visa must scale without tying up an agent. Our technical layer lets you generate and track hundreds of requests per programme, from a single integration that fits inside your existing booking flow.
Once the request is sent, you are never left in the dark. The status is visible in real time and every step triggers an alert, all the way to receiving the approval, and a human is reachable the moment the authority asks for anything extra.
How it works
A linear, guided journey: you provide your passport, we handle accuracy, submission and tracking all the way to the final PDF.
You photograph or upload your passport: OCR reads the machine-readable zone and pre-fills name, dates, nationality and document number. You only type in by hand what is specific to the trip.
Our engine verifies every field before submission: spelling matching the passport, sufficient validity, eligibility for the chosen programme and authorised length of stay. Anomalies are flagged before they cause a refusal.
The validated file is sent to the relevant official authority, with payment of consular fees shown separately. For pros, this step can be automated via the REST API and triggers signed webhooks.
You track progress in real time, alerted by e-mail and SMS at every status change, until you receive your approval in PDF format, tied to your passport and ready to show at boarding.
Integration & API for pros
For tour operators and platforms, the e-visa must scale without tying up an agent. Our technical layer lets you generate and track hundreds of requests per programme, from a single integration that fits inside your existing booking flow.
Embed the e-visa directly in your sales funnel. The REST API, signed webhooks and unlimited sandbox let you automate the creation and tracking of requests at scale, so your customers get their authorisation without ever leaving your product.
The programmes
An overview of the most requested e-visas and their indicative turnaround. Real delays depend on the authority, the season and the completeness of the file; they are indicative and do not constitute a commitment.
| Programme | Indicative turnaround |
|---|---|
| India e-Visa | 24 to 72 hours |
| Egypt e-Visa | 24 to 72 hours |
| Turkey e-Visa | A few minutes to 48 hours |
| Vietnam e-Visa | 3 to 5 business days |
| Cambodia e-Visa | 1 to 3 business days |
| Azerbaijan e-Visa | About 3 business days |
| Oman e-Visa | 24 to 72 hours |
Non-exhaustive list. Travel authorisations for visa-exempt nationals (ESTA, UK ETA, eVisitor…) are not e-visas: find them on our ETA & authorisations page. 66 destinations are covered: find the exact programme for your country in the Destinations menu.
Who it's for
From the independent traveller leaving in three days to the platform generating hundreds of authorisations, the same foundation adapts to volume and the expected level of automation.
Secure authorisations for every participant on a tour without tying up an agent. Bulk entry, OCR and systematic checking reduce the last-minute refusals that disrupt a departure, while consolidated tracking tells you at a glance which travellers are cleared and which still need attention.
Embed the e-visa directly in your sales funnel. The REST API, signed webhooks and unlimited sandbox let you automate the creation and tracking of requests at scale, so your customers get their authorisation without ever leaving your product.
For mobility teams and business trips, consolidated tracking, real-time alerts and transparent fees make rebilling and meeting assignment dates easier, with consular fees cleanly separated from the service for accounting.
Leave with peace of mind even when booking late. OCR prevents data-entry mistakes, the check rules out programme errors and you receive your PDF before take-off, with e-mail and SMS alerts at every step so you are never guessing.
Trust
An e-visa commits your identity and your passport data. Visamundi handles this information with the same rigour as a consular file, within a compliant and transparent framework.
See our privacy policyData protection
Your passport data is encrypted, used only for the request and never resold. The submission goes to the relevant official authority, with no opaque intermediary.
Transparent fees
Consular fees are shown separately from our support service. You know exactly what goes to the state and what goes to Visamundi, before you pay.
Refund if eligible refusal
When a file is refused in a case covered by our terms, our support service is refundable. Fees already paid to the authority remain subject to the programme's rules.
Compliance & human support
Our processing complies with GDPR and the requirements of each programme. Human support stays reachable for any extra document requested by the authority or any question about your file.
I started my e-visa request the night before a flight to India. OCR had already filled in almost the whole form, the check caught a date I had reversed, and I received my PDF overnight. Shown at boarding, validated without a word.
E-Visa
An e-visa is a genuine visa, but issued entirely online and tied to your passport number, with no paper sticker and no trip to the consulate. You'll find it in countries such as India, Egypt, Turkey, Vietnam or Cambodia: you fill in an official form, pay the consular fees and receive an approval linked to your travel document, to show at boarding. It should not be confused with a travel authorisation such as the ESTA (United States), the ETA (United Kingdom) or the eVisitor (Australia): those are not visas, they concern visa-exempt travellers and are covered on our ETA & authorisations page. The simple rule: if your nationality needs a visa to enter, it's an e-visa; if it is visa-exempt but must obtain a green light before the flight, it's an ETA.
In most cases, approval comes back quickly: 80% of the files we handle are approved within 24 to 72 hours, and some programmes respond within minutes. The actual delay depends on the authority, the season and the completeness of the file, since a peak travel period or a manual review on the authority's side can add time. We recommend applying as soon as your travel dates are known to keep a comfortable margin, but our journey remains usable right up to the last moment before departure, and you are kept informed in real time throughout.
The leading cause of e-visa refusal is a data-entry mistake: a misspelled name, a reversed date or a wrong passport number, often because the authority's form uses a date format different from your own. Our OCR reads the machine-readable zone of your passport and automatically pre-fills most fields exactly as they appear on the document, then our checking engine verifies the overall consistency before submission. You only type in by hand what is specific to the trip, which removes the vast majority of errors and the costly need to start over.
We show consular fees separately from our support service, fully transparently. You know exactly what goes to the official authority of the destination country and what pays for the Visamundi service (OCR, consistency check, submission, tracking and support). This is the opposite of opaque intermediaries who inflate official fees without saying so.
Yes. Tour operators and platforms can automate the creation and tracking of requests end to end through our documented REST API. Signed webhooks notify every status change in real time, so your own system always reflects the true state of each file without polling, and an unlimited sandbox environment lets you test every scenario before going live. Integration usually takes a few days, and once in production you get consolidated tracking across all files, with the same transparent separation between consular fees and our service that applies to individual requests.
A refusal is rare once a file has passed our consistency check, but it can happen, in particular for reasons specific to the authority, such as a prior immigration history or a criterion only the authority can assess. In the cases covered by our terms, our support service is refundable. Fees already paid to the official authority remain subject to the rules of the relevant programme, since those go to the state and not to us. Our support helps you understand the reason and, where applicable, rebuild a compliant file or identify the correct visa type so your trip is not jeopardised.
Yes. Your passport data is encrypted, used only to process your request and never resold. The submission goes directly to the relevant official authority, with no opaque intermediary. Our processing complies with GDPR; you can find the details in our privacy policy.
No, and it is a common confusion. An e-visa covers a short stay for tourism, family or business, according to each programme's own rules, with a set duration and number of entries. It does not allow paid employment, long courses of study, or settling permanently: those situations call for specific visas, often requiring sponsorship or supporting documents an e-visa never asks for. Before filling in the form, we check that the purpose of your trip matches what the e-visa allows, and we steer you to the right document if it does not, to avoid a refusal or being turned away on arrival after you have already paid and travelled.
Ready to go
Passport OCR, consistency check, submission to the right authority and real-time tracking: everything is in place to obtain your authorisation with no queue and no consular appointment.
