Not unless the application ends in .gov.in.

Short answer

No. iVisa and other commercial application services are not India’s Bureau of Immigration. The free e-Arrival Card and the paid e-Visa both use the indianvisaonline.gov.in government system.

The e-Arrival Card is free. If your trip requires an e-Visa, use the separate official application page.

Two procedures, two prices

Do not let a checkout page merge them into one vague “India travel document”:

1. e-Arrival Card: FREE for foreign nationals, including OCI cardholders. Submit within 72 hours before arrival.
2. e-Visa: priced by nationality and validity. Common tourist examples are $10 or $25 for 30 days, $40 for 1 year, and $200 for 5 years, plus a 3% bank charge.

The exceptions matter. The official table lists the United States at $160 for 5 years, the United Kingdom at $484, and Japan at $25. Some nationalities are $0. Check the live quote instead of trusting a copied price table.

An e-Visa also limits first entry to the airports and seaports on the current official list.

How to spot a lookalike domain

The official host is indianvisaonline.gov.in. Check it one label at a time:

1. The address must end in .gov.in.
2. gov elsewhere in the name is not enough. A .com, .org, .ai, or other ending is not the Indian government portal.
3. Read past words designed to look official, including india, visa, arrival, online, and government.
4. Open the government link first, then compare the entire host before entering passport or card data.

earrivalcardindia.com fails this test. It charged a £15 service fee for the free card. indiaearrivalcardgo.com also fails it and listed a $59.99 standard service. The word go does not mean gov.in.

The USD $99-$399 e-Visa package pattern

One documented commercial site advertised totals of $99 for 30 days, $149 for 1 year, and $399 for 5 years. Its totals combined assistance and government fees.

Compare those figures with common official tourist fees of $10 or $25, $40, and $200. Nationality exceptions can move the government price up or down, but a service package is still not the government fee.

Documented commercial sites

The cards below reproduce only evidence stored in data/official_urls/india.toml.

If you already paid

Do not assume that both procedures were completed.

• Check the e-Visa application or ETA on the official .gov.in service.
• Submit the free e-Arrival Card yourself within 72 hours before arrival.
• Keep the application ID, ETA, arrival-card confirmation, and email account under your control.
• Ask for a receipt separating the government fee from the service fee.

If no usable application was filed, apply through the official portal and ask the card issuer about the undelivered intermediary service.