Do Mongolian passport holders need a visa for India?

By Ananya Sethi · Travel Writer, Tripmojo · Updated September 2, 2026 · Reviewed by Simran Raheja

Yes, an e-Visa, and India charges Mongolian nationals nothing for it. The reverse leg is where people go wrong: India does appear on Mongolia’s visa-free list, but only for diplomatic and official passports, so an ordinary Indian passport still needs a Mongolian visa.

Quick facts

Travel authorisation

Visa required: Yes, an e-Visa granted before you fly
e-Tourist fee: 00 in all four columns
Business and medical fee: 00 in all three columns
Continuous stay per visit: 90 days
Annual cap: 180 days in India per calendar year
The other direction: Visa-free for Indian diplomatic and official passports only

Entry requirements

An e-Visa applied for online and granted before departure. The fee is zero, but the authorisation still has to be issued before an airline will board you.
A Mongolian passport valid at least six months, carried with the previous one if it was replaced after the authorisation was granted.
Arrival at a designated airport or seaport. An e-Visa is not written for land borders, though departure may be from any Indian immigration check post.

Free one way, and misread the other

Mongolia is entry 106 on India’s e-Visa eligibility list, which runs to 174 numbered slots covering 173 countries because Kenya is listed twice. The application is online and travel waits on the grant of the Electronic Travel Authorisation.

India charges nothing for it. On the country-wise e-Tourist visa fee schedule dated 9 July 2026, Mongolia is row 104 and all four columns read 00. On the business, medical and medical attendant schedule dated 15 April 2026 it is row 105 and all three read 00. Twenty-two of the 175 rows are zero throughout and the same 22 names appear on both documents.

The other direction is not free and is widely misreported. Mongolia’s consular service publishes a table of countries whose citizens may travel visa-free, and India is on it, at entry 40. The terms attached to that entry are the part that matters: diplomatic and official passports, up to 90 days, under an agreement dated 23 December 2005. An ordinary Indian passport is not covered. India appears instead on the Mongolian Immigration Agency’s list of countries eligible for the Mongolian e-Visa, at entry 92, which is the route an ordinary traveller uses. Neither the eligibility list nor the consular table publishes what that e-Visa costs or how long it runs, so no figure for either is quoted here.

Good to know

There is a second list on the same page, and it is the one people probably mean. Mongolia publishes a separate table of countries whose citizens are temporarily exempted from visa requirements for tourism of up to 30 days over 2023 to 2026. It runs to 34 entries and is almost entirely European: Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Croatia, Czechia, Sweden, Estonia, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Ireland, Cyprus, Romania and Monaco, then the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. India is not on it. So neither of the two ways Mongolia waives visas, the bilateral agreements table or the temporary tourism scheme, reaches an ordinary Indian passport.
The Mongolian table is sorted by passport type, and reading the country name without the terms beside it will mislead you. It has 74 numbered entries, and one of them is not a country: entry 41 exempts United Nations staff travelling on official business and holders of a laissez-passer, for up to 30 days. Grouping the other 73 by the exact wording of the terms column gives thirty reading all types of passports, which includes Ukraine where an official invitation is required, one reading ordinary passport, which is Colombia, thirty-two reading diplomatic and official passports, five reading diplomatic passport alone, and five entries each with a wording of its own naming electronic, service or special passports: Estonia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Oman and Saudi Arabia. India sits in the group of thirty-two. So only thirty-one of the seventy-three entries reach an ordinary traveller at all, and the Indian entry is not among them.
Every entry on that table carries a date, which tells you how recent the arrangement is. India’s reads 23 December 2005. Others are much newer: the United Arab Emirates from 28 December 2023, the Maldives from 12 January 2024, Paraguay from 17 January 2024, Vietnam from 7 March 2024 and Colombia from 26 January 2026. One entry, South Korea, carries an end date as well as a start, running 1 June 2022 to 31 December 2026, which is a reminder that these arrangements expire. Check the date beside the row rather than assuming a list is current everywhere.
India’s two ceilings are published in different places and only one is on the visa portal. The portal gives the annual figure: maximum stay in India during one calendar year should not exceed 180 days on the one-year and five-year e-Tourist visas. The per-visit figure comes from the immigration bureau, and it is 90 days for nationals of every country eligible for the e-Visa except the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan, whose nationals get 180. Mongolia is not among those four. The bureau also counts an e-Tourist visa and a paper tourist visa together against the annual 180.
A free visa still has to be granted, and it cannot be stretched afterwards. The portal is explicit that for every eligible nationality other than the three named for visa on arrival, and Mongolia is not one of them, the application is filled online and the applicant waits for the grant before travelling. Once you are in the country the e-Visa is non-extendable and non-convertible, so a longer stay means leaving and applying again rather than converting anything at the FRRO.

Frequently asked questions

Do Mongolian citizens need a visa for India?

Yes, an e-Visa applied for online before travel. Mongolia is entry 106 on India’s e-Visa eligibility list.

How much does an Indian e-Visa cost for a Mongolian passport?

Nothing. Mongolia reads 00 in all four columns of the tourist fee schedule and all three columns of the business and medical schedule.

Is India on Mongolia’s visa-free list?

Yes, but only for diplomatic and official passports, up to 90 days, under an agreement dated 23 December 2005. Ordinary Indian passport holders are not covered by it.

How do Indian tourists get into Mongolia then?

India is on the Mongolian Immigration Agency’s list of countries eligible for the Mongolian e-Visa, at entry 92. That is the route for an ordinary passport. Neither government page states its cost or validity.

Is India on Mongolia’s temporary tourism exemption?

No. That scheme waives visas for tourism of up to 30 days over 2023 to 2026 for 34 countries, almost all European plus the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. India is not among them.

How long can a Mongolian stay in India at a time?

Ninety days per visit on a tourist e-Visa, and no more than 180 days in a calendar year. The 180-day per-visit allowance goes only to nationals of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan.

Can I get a visa on arrival in India instead?

No. India limits visa on arrival to nationals of Japan, South Korea and the UAE. Everyone else eligible applies online and waits for the grant.

Other passports for India

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against the official sources below on 2 September 2026.

Government of India, e-Visa portal at indianvisaonline.gov.in: eligibility list, Mongolia at entry 106 of 174 numbered slots covering 173 countries, Kenya appearing at both 81 and 85. FAQ Q25 limiting visa on arrival to nationals of Japan, South Korea and the UAE. "Maximum stay in India during one Calender Year should not exceed 180 days for 1 year and 5 year Tourist Visa." FAQ Q23 on land borders, Q11 on departure, Q10 on extension and conversion, Q22 on a replaced passport, Q12 on passport validity. Read 2026-09-02. https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/tvoa.html
Bureau of Immigration, Ministry of Home Affairs, e-Tourist Visa terms: "continuous stay during each visit shall not exceed 90 days in case of nationals of all countries who are eligible for grant of e-visa except nationals of USA, UK, Canada and Japan. In the case of nationals of USA, UK, Canada and Japan, continuous stay during each visit shall not exceed 180 days."; and "Maximum stay by a foreigner in India on an e-Tourist Visa or paper Tourist Visa or both in one calendar year shall be restricted to 180 days." Read 2026-09-02. https://boi.gov.in/boi/getvisaservise/2
Government of India, "Country/Territory Wise e-Tourist Visa Fee (in US $)", dated 09-July-2026, 175 rows. Row 104 Mongolia reads 00, 00, 00, 00. Twenty-two rows are zero in all four columns: Argentina, Cook Islands, Fiji, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Niue Island, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uruguay, Vanuatu. Read 2026-09-02. https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/images/Etourist_fee_final.pdf
Government of India, "Country/Territory Wise e-Visa Fee (e-Business, e-Medical, e-Medical Attendant and e-Conference Visa)", dated 15-April-2026, 176 rows. Row 105 Mongolia reads 00, 00, 00. The document carries no currency label. Read 2026-09-02. https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/images/eTV_revised_fee_final.pdf
Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, table of countries whose citizens may travel to Mongolia without a visa (Монгол Улсад визгүй зорчих орнууд). Entry 40, India (Энэтхэг): "Дипломат, албан паспортаар 90 хоног хүртэл / 2005.12.23", that is diplomatic and official passports for up to 90 days under an agreement of 23 December 2005. The table has 74 numbered entries. Entry 41 is not a country: it exempts United Nations staff on official business and laissez-passer holders for up to 30 days, from 2007. Grouping the other 73 by the exact terms wording: thirty read "Бүх төрлийн паспортаар" (all types of passports, Ukraine at entry 7 among them, qualified by "/Албан ёсны урилгатай тохиолдолд/", where there is an official invitation), one reads "Энгийн паспортаар" (ordinary passport, Colombia at entry 31), thirty-two read "Дипломат, албан паспортаар" (diplomatic and official passports), five read "Дипломат паспорт" alone (the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Austria and Bahrain), and five entries each carry a wording of their own naming electronic, service or special passports: Estonia (entry 55), Albania (61), Azerbaijan (66), Oman (70) and Saudi Arabia (73). Those groups sum to 73, and with entry 41 to the full 74. An earlier draft of this page said forty-two read "Дипломат, албан паспортаар", which came from a substring match that swept in the other diplomatic wordings. The same page carries a second table, headed "Монгол Улсад 30 хүртэл хоногийн хугацаагаар жуулчлах иргэдийг нь 2023-2026 онд визийн шаардлагаас түр чөлөөлсөн улсын жагсаалт", listing 34 countries temporarily exempted from visa requirements for tourism of up to 30 days over 2023 to 2026; India is not on it. Read 2026-09-02. https://consul.mn/visa/c/18
Immigration Agency of Mongolia, "List of countries eligible for Mongolian E-Visa": India appears at entry 92. Read 2026-09-02. https://immigration.gov.mn/en/evisa-country-list/

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