Do you need an onward ticket for India?
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India lists a return or onward journey ticket as an explicit eligibility criterion for the e-Tourist visa, bundled with a sufficient-funds test.
An official page or statute states this condition. The wording is quoted below and the source is linked.
Last verified 5 August 2026 · Asia
“The foreigner should have return ticket or onward journey ticket, with sufficient money to spend during his/her stay in India.”
What the rule actually says
The ticket and the money sit in one clause, which tells you how to read the condition: it functions as a means-of-support test rather than a paperwork formality.
In practice the ticket is not usually uploaded with the application. That does not soften the rule — it is lawfully demandable at the port of entry.
Who checks
Published as an eligibility criterion, so it can be asked for at the port of entry. India publishes nothing about airline check-in screening.
A note on airline enforcement, because almost every page on this subject states it as fact: airlines screen these rules through IATA Timatic, a paid business product with no public interface. Nobody outside the industry can check what it says for a given route on a given day. New Zealand is the only authority in this set whose own published text names the check-in desk.
Sources
- e-Tourist visa — eligibility criteria (Bureau of Immigration, Ministry of Home Affairs, India)
- India travel advice: entry requirements (UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office — another government's summary, used because the destination's own page could not be retrieved)
Airports in India
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