BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION

Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India

APIS (Advanced Passenger Information System)

As per Sec 6A of Foreigners Order, 1948

  • Country Representative or Station manager of an Airline, arriving in India, shall provide the information about the passengers and crew on board in the prescribed format in electronic form, within 15 minutes of taking off of the aircraft, from the port of embarkation outside India, to the immigration authorities at the ports of landing/disembarkation in India.
  • It may be noted that with effect from 01-04-2008, Airline Operators have to furnish the APIS information, in the prescribed format, in a flat file at the destination airports to the immigration authorities.
  • Non-compliance with the APIS Gazette Notification would attract the provisions of Section 14 of the Foreigners Act, 1946.
  • Queries/clarifications on the technical aspects of APIS implementation may be addressed to apisindia[at]nic[dot]in and on the administrative aspects, may be addressed to frrodli[at]nic[at]in.

Important PDFs regarding APIS :-

  1. Legislation dated 24.01.2008(121 KB)
  2. APIS Guidelines to the Carriers (155 KB)
  3. FAQs (181 KB)
  4. Time Limit for compliance with APIS(11KB)
  5. Stabilization of APIS Data (11 kB)