Onward ticket for Seychelles: the Travel Authorisation

What Seychelles and your airline may ask for

• An approved Travel Authorisation from the official SEBS portal, seychelles.govtas.com.
• A valid return or onward travel ticket out of Seychelles.
• Proof of confirmed accommodation for each place you will stay, uploaded with the application.
• Enough money for your stay; a benchmark of about US$150 a day is reported.
• The same names and dates on your bookings and your Travel Authorisation.

Travel Authorisation first, permit on arrival

Seychelles gives visitors a free permit on arrival, but before you fly you must hold a Travel Authorisation, applied for online through SEBS at seychelles.govtas.com. The standard fee is €10. Use only the official portal.

The application asks for proof of confirmed accommodation, uploaded for each place you will stay, and you must also travel with a valid return or onward ticket. In practice your documents are looked at twice: once online before you fly, and again when you land at Mahé. Air Seychelles publishes the same requirements for its passengers, so expect the airline to ask as well.

Timing: order the reservation on the day you fly

Seychelles has a step most onward-ticket destinations do not: the Travel Authorisation, with your accommodation uploaded before you travel. Do that first, once your stays are settled. The return or onward flight is a separate matter, and it should not be ordered days ahead to sit alongside the application.

The airline sets how long a held reservation lasts and can release it at any time, with no warning to you or the desk. So book it on the day your Gulf connection leaves India, or the evening before at the very earliest, and check the names and route against your Travel Authorisation as soon as it arrives. If you need a return ticket for the application itself, or want one that will certainly exist when you land at Mahé, a paid, refundable ticket is the stronger document.

Accommodation: one booking per stop

The accommodation upload is per accommodation, so an island-hopping trip from Mahé to Praslin or La Digue needs a confirmed booking for each stop. Make sure the dates run without gaps from arrival to your return flight, and that the names match your Travel Authorisation.

Because these bookings are part of what is reviewed, use bookings for the places you really intend to stay. If you will stay with friends or family rather than in a hotel or guesthouse, check what the portal accepts before you apply. A flight reservation covers only the ticket side of the requirement.

Getting to Seychelles from India and the Gulf

Common routes from India to Mahé (SEZ) connect in the Gulf, on Emirates via Dubai or Qatar Airways via Doha. That also makes Seychelles a short break for Indians living in the UAE or Qatar, with non-stop flights from both. Whichever way you come, you need the Travel Authorisation and the return or onward ticket before you board, whether that is in Mumbai, Dubai or Doha.

A Gulf connection also stretches the journey. If you leave India late at night and change planes in Dubai or Doha, you may reach Mahé the next day, and a held reservation may not last that long. Order it on the day the first leg leaves, check the names straight away, and carry a paid ticket if you need certainty at Mahé immigration.

Flying from India to Seychelles

Your reservation should follow a route you could realistically fly. These are common options; schedules change, so the desk confirms what is bookable for your dates.

Mistakes to avoid with a Seychelles trip

• Applying on an unofficial site instead of the SEBS portal, seychelles.govtas.com.
• Uploading one booking for a multi-island trip that needs one per accommodation.
• Ordering the flight reservation when you apply, days before the flight. The airline can release the hold at any time.
• Accommodation dates with a gap before the return flight.
• An invented ticket or booking. It is document fraud, and easy to expose.

Dummy ticket and hotel bookings, matched to your itinerary

We do not send one loose document. The desk matches the flight reservation and every hotel booking to your itinerary: the same dates, the same cities, and no night left uncovered. These are the real documents of one order for a Switzerland visa file, issued on 5 November 2026: one flight reservation and four hotel bookings that cover all 9 nights between the two flights. Personal details are blacked out; everything else is as issued.

• Flight reservationEtihad, Hyderabad (HYD) to Zurich (ZRH), status Confirmed
• Hotel booking, ZurichMEININGER Hotel Zürich Greencity, 3 nights
• Hotel booking, GenevaB&B HOTEL Geneva Airport, 3 nights
• Hotel booking, LucerneSeminarhotel Romerohaus, 2 nights
• Hotel booking, Zurich AirportLeonardo Hotel Zurich Airport, 1 night

Open the full documents and the day-by-day table: flight and hotels matched date by date

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