In detail
The High Commission of India, Dhaka has a document on its website titled “নকল ই-ভিসা ওয়েবসাইটসমূহ” (fake e-Visa websites). It lists 140 web addresses under the heading “Fake e-Visa URL noticed so far”. The document is a scanned image, and its file name is dated 3 September 2023.
Reading the list, a few things stand out:
- almost every address contains words like “india”, “visa”, “evisa” or “online”
- several also have “gov” worked into the name
- the same name appears more than once with small spelling changes, ending sometimes in .com, sometimes in .org or .in
So a name alone does not make a site official. Note the heading, too: “noticed so far”. An address missing from the list is not safe for that reason.
Our advice (this is not from the High Commission’s document):
- Type the address yourself, or follow the link from an official source, not an advert or the first search result.
- An Indian flag, emblem or a photo of a monument does not make a site a government site.
- Everything on this site comes from two official sites: ivacbd.com (Indian Visa Application Centre) and hcidhaka.gov.in (High Commission of India, Dhaka).
- If someone offers to secure an appointment or a faster visa for money, stop. What IVAC says about fees is in the question “How much is the Indian visa fee?”.
Open the High Commission’s document from the source link to see all 140 addresses.