The 25-year-old had planned to head to the sub-continent next week in a bid to apologise for her racist remarks.
Jade applied for a visa on Monday along with her security team and aides - but she was the only one not to have been granted passage.
Usually it takes just 24 hours for a visa to be rubber-stamped for a British citizen. The three others who applied with her got their visas within a day.
Jade's passport remains with the Indian High Commission in central London, where her visit was last night said to be being discussed "at the highest level".
It follows Jade's comments to Bollywood babe Shilpa Shetty which caused uproar across the UK while in India protesters took to the streets to burn effigies of Channel 4 chiefs.
Sources said it may take up to a week for her to get a visa and she could even be banned from going.
"There is a lot to consider in relation to what she said," a source was quoted by the Sun, as saying. Jade's people have spent days in talks with Indian authorities.
They first asked the British High Commission in India for help. A source there said: "We referred them to the Indian High Commission in London who issue visas. Issues were discussed between us but I am not prepared to say what they are."
An Indian High Commission source said: "We want people at the very highest level to decide whether we want her to visit."
Jade spent yesterday doing apologetic interviews with Indian and global TV stations. (ANI)
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