A readily accessible and bench-stable water-soluble hypervalent iodine(III) reagent (phenyliodonio)sulfamate (PISA) with an I–N bond was synthesized, and its structure was characterized by X-ray crystallography. With PISA, various indoles were synthesized via C–H amination of 2-alkenylanilines involving an aryl migration/intramolecular cyclization cascade with excellent regioselectivity in aqueous