Visas

[davej5939]

We will be doing the full world cruise on Arcadia in 2015 and are at the point of looking into visa requirements. USA and Australia are easy via internet but we would appreciate any help or advice from fellow cruisers. China and India are quite costly in view of the few hours we will be in port. India may be about to go for an internet application , does anyone have information. Thank you for any help. Dave and Jess.

[Sealoveragain]

We will be doing the full world cruise on Arcadia in 2015 and are at the point of looking into visa requirements. USA and Australia are easy via internet but we would appreciate any help or advice from fellow cruisers. China and India are quite costly in view of the few hours we will be in port. India may be about to go for an internet application , does anyone have information. Thank you for any help. Dave and Jess.

 

We did the World cruise in 2013 on the Aurora. The Indian visa can be a bit of a pain to fill out. We used CIBT as recommended by P&O. I filled out the forms for both China and India online. Any questions I had were answered promptly by CIBT and then sent them off with our passports to the CIBT who did the rest. It isn't the cheapest way but was the easiest for us. I believe if you live within easy reach of the embassies and do it all yourself it works out a lot cheaper. Perhaps someone else can help you with that.

[Nevleen]

We will be doing the full world cruise on Arcadia in 2015 and are at the point of looking into visa requirements. USA and Australia are easy via internet but we would appreciate any help or advice from fellow cruisers. China and India are quite costly in view of the few hours we will be in port. India may be about to go for an internet application , does anyone have information. Thank you for any help. Dave and Jess.

 

We did the full world on Aurora in 2014 and did all our visas ourselves as we live near enough to Manchester. We filled in the form from CIBT for the Chinese one and took it to the embassy. They accepted the forms after checking them and gave us a time and day to come back for them. Our friends went up to London to do theirs.

 

The Indian one we filled in all the forms online, printed them off and took them to the requested office. They returned them by registered post within three days. Also if you do this, do not pay for the postage online as at the office we were charged for one and they sent both back together.

 

Hope this helps.:)