Short answer: yes. Thai visa applications from India moved fully online to the e-Visa portal (thaievisa.go.th) from 1 January 2025, and the system is organised by current residence, not by the address inside your passport. The passport address is just a printed fact; the form asks where you actually live, and that answer decides which mission processes you.
How the four missions divide India. Thailand runs the Embassy in New Delhi plus Consulates-General in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. The consulates publish their coverage: Mumbai takes Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Goa; Chennai takes Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Telangana and Puducherry; Kolkata takes West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. States not assigned to any consulate go to New Delhi. On the portal you select the mission that covers where you live, and your application lands there.
So what does a different-state applicant do? Exactly the same thing, with one extra document habit. Apply to the mission for the state you live in today, and keep residence proof handy - an Aadhaar card with the current address, a rental agreement, a recent utility bill or an employer letter. If the mission sees a passport from Patna and an application routed to Chennai, it can ask why, and residence proof answers the question in one upload. Mismatches without proof are how applications pick up queries and delays.
Do not game the dropdown. Choosing a mission you do not live under because a friend heard it is faster is a bad trade: the portal wants consistent details, and a jurisdiction you cannot prove residence in is a query waiting to happen. Pick the honest option; processing is the same system everywhere.
Check whether you need the visa at all. Since 15 September 2026, Indian ordinary passport holders get 30-day visa-exempt entry for tourism - no application, no fee, no jurisdiction question. The e-Visa route matters when you plan to stay longer than 30 days, want a multiple-entry tourist visa, or travel for business, study, work or family reasons on a Non-Immigrant visa or the DTV. Note the current 30-day exemption is tourism-only; the earlier 60-day scheme also covered short business engagements, so older pages mentioning business under exemption describe expired rules.
A practical checklist before you apply. Confirm you actually need a visa (over 30 days or non-tourism). Identify your mission from your current state of residence. Scan residence proof alongside the usual set - passport copy, photo, flight and stay details, financials as the mission asks. Fill the portal in one sitting where possible, pay the fee (it is non-refundable under all circumstances), and track status online. Apply with margin: a couple of weeks before departure is comfortable.
How TripKeeper helps. Visa questions like jurisdiction rarely arrive alone - they come bundled with how long to stay, which visa class, and what documents the family needs. When we plan a Thailand trip, we sort the visa logic first and the itinerary after. Send us a trip-planning inquiry and travel with the paperwork settled.
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