 hello everyone this is financial author Amit Dan of amitdan.com on this channel you'll find financial travel and more videos just like the one you're watching right now if you like what you see please give me the thumbs up and consider subscribing hello everyone this is amitdan of amitdan.com today i'll talk about how to apply for indian visa from canada but before i do that i'd like to mention that right now i'm in downtown toronto in a park which is the coronation and the temperature is 23 degrees Celsius with 12 months per hour wind and the humidity level is 65 percent and the sunset is about at nine o'clock so what it means that at 10 o'clock still is going to be light outside so in canada in summer the days are always longer and even if it's 10 o'clock it feels like it's still it's a daylight so i just went through the visa obtaining process to go to india for upcoming india visit and i'd like to share my experience and i'd like to mention how to apply for indian tourist visa from canada now the process applying for other types of visas such as e-visa or medical visa are different and i'm not talking about that i'm talking about only tourist visa which i applied for canada and if you are watching this from other parts of the world for example like usa or european countries then most likely the process would be very similar however for different country the process is different so you should check with your local indian consulate before you go through any process and applying for indian visa application and also i'd like to mention that the information is accurate as of right now by the time you're watching this video things might have changed and the information i'm going to provide you may no longer be valid so always check on the indian consulate website and at your local indian consulate before you apply and going for any tourist visa or any kind of visa so the first thing in order to visit india most of the citizens of the most countries would require visa only a handful of countries citizens do not require a visa to visit india and there will be issued visa upon arrival and the link i'm going to provide on the screen which is the bls link they do have a list of those countries for which you do not need visa so if you are a citizen of one of those countries then you do not need visa but you know check before you apply or just starting your trip to india now in order to apply for indian visa you need to submit your application online through the indian consulate website and i'll give you that link right on the screen and you have to apply online and then once you go through the online application process then it will give you an option to do a printout so you need to have that printout and then once you have the printout and all other required documents such as pictures passports and there might be other necessary documents so obtain those what these documents will be mentioned on the website so once you have everything then you need to go to the bls center in your local area bls is a third-party outsourcing company which looks after the indian visa processing application and they are the one who actually looks after the whole thing so you have to go to your local bls center to submit the application now you can actually submit the application via mail but i do not recommend that it's best that you submit directly going to their center the reason for that if you have a slight mistake then your application will be declined and it will be sent back however if you are at the local center then they'll tell you right away that where is the mistake you made and you'll have a chance to re submit the application you're going to have to just go to a nearest computer center where you can reprint the online application again and as long as you're before the cutoff time you can just submit at the center so once you submit a bls everything required including the application pictures passport and anything else then you'll be given an option to either have that passport back via courier or you can walk in to the bls center another time whenever it's ready to get your passport back now for my own application i chose to just have it sent via courier because i didn't want to go back there however you have an option there to go pick up or just get it via courier now at the bls center there might be a long line or there may not be long line depending on what day and what time you go the time when i went it i didn't have to wait too long i finished the whole process within two hours and then for myself i actually got the visa in two business days however i heard many bad complaints or numerous negative reviews about the whole process and the bls and indian consulate but for me i was surprised that everything went so smooth i do have another video on that where i mentioned that the treatment or the smooth application process i went through so i the results might be based on your own situation and you may be able to get visa right away or there may be delay if they require further information or there's any error or they need to investigate anything further now i'd like to mention that my trip is coming in november so i applied for visa early or about six month early because i didn't want to wait at the last moment and once you have everything ready then you can start your trip to go to india to visit various historic places and other stuff now by the end of this video i'll show you around this beautiful place in toronto and this is located in the heart of downtown toronto and across me uh there's the lake ontario and then there is an island airport right behind me so again i thank you for watching this video if you like what you see please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing and all the links i mentioned i'll be given those links will be given on the screen and again before you actually go through any application process just make sure that the information you are getting is accurate and up to the moment because any visa application process information can change anytime so by the time you are watching this video just make sure that you check the consulate website or you call bls to get up to date information that's all for today thanks for watching please hit the subscribe button if you like what you see and consider hitting the like button and there will be more videos coming up thank you goodbye