Tuvaluan Visa is not required for Indians
Stay Duration: 30 days
Entry Requirements
- For India nationals to visit Tuvalu, you must visit Tuvalu by applying for its visa-on-arrival.
- Tuvalu’s visa-on-arrival is attached with 30 days of stay once issued to India citizens.
- You should visit the office of Tuvalu’s Immigration Department if you are thinking of extending your stay. However, this extension incurs an extension fee.
- You are to provide an original international passport that valid for at least 6 months, and you should reserve a minimum of two blanked pages for requisite stampings.
- Your country’s national Identity card is required upon or before your arrival in Tuvalu.
- Proof of hotel reservation or any other means of your accommodation is required.
- Sufficient funds that will cater to all your expenses throughout your stay in Tuvalu should be made available before you embark on your journey to the country.
- An airport tax costing AUD 30(Australian Dollar) is levied on all passengers when they are departing Tuvalu to another country.
- The standard time zone of Tuvalu is (GMT+12). India is 6 hours, 30 minutes behind Tuvalu.
- The average flight’s estimated time to fly from Delhi, India to Funafuti, Tuvalu is 28 hours. That is, it will take India citizens an average of 1 day, 4 hours to reach Tuvalu.
- The airlines flying to Tuvalu are Cathay Pacific, Fiji Airways, China Southern, Malaysia Airlines and Singapore Airlines.
- The telephone code used in Tuvalu is (+688) available for both national and international communications.
- Banks do not operate on weekends(Saturdays and Sundays) in Tuvalu.
- The accepted currency of Tuvalu is the Australian Dollar(AUD).
- There are no restrictions to the amount of foreign or local currencies you can bring into Tuvalu.
- A veterinarian good health certificate and rabies inoculation certificate accompanied by import permits issued by to you by the officer in charge of Agriculture-Vaitupu, Tuvalu.
- English and Tuvaluan are the national and official languages spoken in Tuvalu.
- Fufunati is the official capital city of Tuvalu.
- The mediums for transporting in Tuvalu are through air service, ferry service, and roads.
- The population in Tuvalu is estimated to be over 11 thousand people.
- Christianity is the prominent religion practiced in Tuvalu by over 95% of its population.
- Marine in Funafuti, Vaiaku’s Lagoon, Vaitupu’s largest atoll of Tuvalu with its village and Tuvalu islet with its airport in Fongafale are the beautiful places to tour about in Tuvalu.
- Tuvalu’s dishes encompass different forms of seafood like coconut crab, fish from the lagoon and ocean, and other food like banana, breadfruits, seabirds and pork.
- Tuvalu’s power plug is type I, and its power voltage supply is 220V with a standard frequency of 50Hz.
- Climate in Tuvalu is an equatorial climate. That is, the atmosphere in the country is always hot, humid and rainy throughout the year.