Employment & Business Visas
Indian visa categories are defined by what the traveller will do, not what is convenient to apply for — and the boundary between them is enforced with consequences. Employment visas require skilled roles, a salary above the prescribed floor, and sponsorship that matches the working reality; business visas permit meetings, negotiations, and exploration but not productive work; project visas carry their own confinements. The most common corporate violation in this space is also the most casual: engineers 'visiting' on business visas while commissioning a plant, a practice that surfaces at renewal or exit and contaminates both the individual's record and the sponsor's credibility.
We begin where applications should: with what the person will actually do in India, mapped to the category that lawfully covers it. Eligibility is validated before filing — salary thresholds, qualification evidence, sponsor documentation; applications are assembled to the standards of the specific consulate holding jurisdiction, because practice varies more than the rules admit; and borderline cases are engineered in advance — role descriptions, contractual arrangements, and assignment structures adjusted so the application succeeds honestly rather than optimistically.
What this covers
- Category determination mapped to actual activities — employment, business, or project — before any filing.
- Eligibility validation: salary floors, skill criteria, and sponsor documentation tested upfront.
- Application assembly to consulate-specific standards, with jurisdiction handling.
- Borderline-case engineering: assignments structured to qualify honestly.
- Refusal response and reapplication strategy where history needs repair.
Who needs this
Multinationals posting personnel to Indian entities; foreign companies deploying specialists for projects and commissioning; and HR teams whose visa decisions have so far been made by travel agents.
How we deliver
- Category determination mapped to actual activities before any filing.
- Eligibility validated upfront: salary floors, qualifications, sponsor documentation.
- Applications assembled to the specific consulate's standards and tracked to decision.
Why A2 Consultants
Our applications succeed on first submission because the category question was answered honestly first — a discipline built from repairing the refusals and violations that shortcuts create.
Engagement & what to expect
Individual applications run with consular timelines — typically two to six weeks end-to-end once documents assemble, with our validation and preparation phase compressing to days where the sponsor file is established. Program engagements onboard your entity once — sponsor documentation, templates, and the assignment matrix mapping roles to categories — after which each subsequent application runs faster and more predictably. Refusal-repair engagements run separately, rebuilding histories before reapplication. Timeline honesty is part of the service: we tell you what the consulate will actually take, not what the checklist implies.
The category question decides everything downstream — answer it correctly before the airport answers it for you.