🛂 Identity documents
- All passports — current and old
- Recent passport-size photograph (35 × 45 mm)
- Aadhaar card and PAN card
- Marriage certificate, if applicable
💼 Job & salary proof
- Salary slips for the last 3–6 months
- Employment certificate on official company letterhead
- NOC / leave approval letter from your employer, with approved leave dates and expected date of rejoining after the trip
- Employer letter confirming your designation, date of joining, monthly or annual salary, employment status and company contact details
- Employee ID card
- Salary account details and evidence of regular salary credits
💰 Income & finances
- Personal bank statements for the last 6 months, preferably bank-stamped
- Bank balance certificate
- Fixed deposit receipts, savings or other financial proof, if applicable
- Form 16 and Income Tax Returns (ITR) for the last 2–3 years, if available
- Proof of other income or investments, if applicable
🏡 Family & ties to India
- Property documents, rent agreement or other evidence of ties to India, if available
- Family details and documents showing immediate family ties in India, where relevant
✈️ Travel history
- Travel history — previous visas, entry / exit stamps and details of earlier international trips
- Details and explanation of any previous visa refusals, overstays or immigration issues, if applicable
✉️ If you are invited or sponsored
- Invitation letter from the host, if visiting relatives or friends
- Host’s passport, visa or residence status, address and contact details, if applicable
- Relationship proof with the host, if applicable
- Sponsor’s letter, bank statements, income proof and identity / residence documents, if another person is funding the trip
📎 Also keep ready
- Travel medical insurance, where required or appropriate for the destination
- English translations of documents that are not in English, as the destination requires
- Any additional documents required by the embassy, immigration authority or your personalised checklist
Tips for salaried employees
- Get the leave letter on company letterhead, signed, with exact leave dates and your rejoining date.
- Make sure the salary on your slips, Form 16, ITR and bank credits all match.
- Show the trip fits your leave and your budget — a realistic itinerary matters.
- Keep your employer’s HR contact details correct; embassies sometimes verify.
- Avoid unexplained large deposits in the 6 months before applying.
Tip: In your free consultation we review your leave letter and salary documents before anything is submitted.
Frequently asked questions
How many months of salary slips are needed?
Usually the last 3–6 months. Six months is safest for Canada, the USA, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
What should the leave / NOC letter say?
Your name, designation, date of joining, salary, the approved leave dates and the date you will rejoin work — on company letterhead, signed by HR or your manager, with contact details.
I recently changed jobs. Is that a problem?
Not necessarily. Include your offer letter, previous employment proof and explain the change. We help you present it clearly.