Visa policy of Uzbekistan

Visitors to Uzbekistan must obtain a visa from one of the Uzbekistan diplomatic missions or online unless they come from one of the visa exempt countries.[1]

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Citizens of the following countries and territories can visit Uzbekistan without a visa:

90 days

60 days

30 days

7 days, for residents arriving via air only


 Turkmenistan — residents of Dashoghuz Velayat and Lebap Velayat of Turkmenistan have visa free access to Khorazm Vilayat and Bukhara Vilayat as well as to Amudarya, Khojayli, Shumanay, Qonghirat districts and the Takhiatash city of Karakalpakstan and to Dehkanabad, Guzar, Nishan and Mirishkar districts of Qashqadarya Vilayat and to Sherabad and Muzrabat districts of Surkhandarya Vilayat have visa free access for up to 3 days within any month period. During Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha the access is allowed twice a month, but no more than 7 days.[15]

Visa-free regime also applies to holders of diplomatic passports of Brazil, China, Estonia, Hungary, India (60 days),[16] Kuwait,[17] Poland, South Korea (60 days), Tajikistan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (90 days) and Vietnam, and also to holders of diplomatic and service passports of Latvia, Romania and Slovakia.

Visa is not required for US military and US Department of Defense civilian staff provided holding a Military/government ID and a copy of their orders.

Visa on arrival

Holders of a Visa Confirmation (stamp), issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, can obtain a visa on arrival at Tashkent International Airport.[18]

eVisa

Uzbekistan introduced the system of electronic visas for a period of up to 30 days from 15 July 2018.[19] A single or multiple entry visa is valid for 30 days. The cost of obtaining an electronic visa is 20 USD. Travelers have to apply for the e-Visa for Uzbekistan at least three days in advance before their trip.[20]

eVisa is available to the citizens of the following jurisdictions:[21][22]

Visa-free transit

Citizens of the following countries and territories do not require a visa for a 5-day stay if they are transiting through the international airports of Uzbekistan.[23] According to the IATA Timatic the outbound flight from Uzbekistan must be on Uzbekistan Airways.

Transit visas are available to all nationalities for a duration of up to 72 hours, for which no invitation letter or tourist voucher is required.

Reform

On 2 December 2016 President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree titled "About measures for ensuring the accelerated development of tourist branch of the Republic of Uzbekistan" that envisaged the establishment of a visa-free regime for citizens of 15 countries[24] as well as a visa-free regime for citizens of 12 countries who are older than 55.[25] Those visitors would only be required to pay an entry fee on arrival. This is planned to be in place by 2020.

However, on 22 December 2016 a new decree was adopted by the President of Uzbekistan amending the decree from 2 December 2016, postponing the visa-free regime until 1 January 2021.[26][27] The amending decree also said that the list of countries whose citizens would benefit from the visa-free access may be revised on the basis of dynamics of development of bilateral relations, the situation on the world tourism market and the current situation in the sphere of international and regional security.

Uzbekistan also plans to introduce electronic visas from 2021. Uzbekistan intends to use the electronic visa system of Azerbaijan as a model.[28]

In December 2017 it was announced that Uzbekistan plans to introduce a simplified procedure for citizens of 25 additional countries and to abolish visas altogether for citizens of Japan, South Korea and Singapore.[29] Visa validity period was extended to 30 days.[30] In January 2018 it was announced that Uzbekistan plans to introduce a simplified procedure for citizens of 40 additional countries and to abolish visas altogether for citizens of five countries.[31]

On 10 February 2018 Uzbekistan abolished visa requirements for 7 countries: Israel, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey. On 16 March 2018 Uzbekistan abolished visa requirements for citizens of Tajikistan and on 5 October 2018 visas were abolished for citizens of France.

In December 2018 it was announced that Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan plan to mutually accept visas from February 2019.[32]

In December 2018 it was announced that Uzbekistan plans to expand visa-free access to citizens of additional 22 countries.[33]

In January 2019 visa requirements were removed for nationals of Germany.[6]

In February 2019 citizens of European Union countries, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, New Zealand, Norway, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, Vatican became visa exempt.[34][35]

In March 2019 Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan were reported as "set to launch" a joint visa program that could expand to nearby countries. All approvals are in place with only technical and equipment details to be worked out.[35]

Statistics
Total visitors by year
Visitors by countries

Visitors arriving to Uzbekistan were from the following countries of nationality:

Nationality2018[41]2017[42]2016[43]2015[44]2014[45]
 Kazakhstan 2,456,866 1,783,815 1,412,161 1,285,0081,163,984
 Tajikistan 1,700,658 261,861 213,692 246,816291,167
 Kyrgyzstan 1,101,477 375,017 174, 845 146,332119,620
 Russia 460,166 143,900 119,049 123,153124,218
 Turkmenistan 245,756 62,483 49,526 55,06044,925
 Turkey 74,802 55,238 46,069 40,38940,563
 Afghanistan 71,067 32,130 24,365 21,99521,249
 China 37,083 19,749 16,765 16,44114,818
 South Korea 32,700 37,357 31,936 30,48933,323
 India 22,198 15,829 18,746 19,82721,707
 Germany 19,056 7,811 6,605 6,1228,041
 Japan 17,237 4,086 3,012 2,3062,423
 Belarus 16,470 3,011 1,813 1,224666
 Ukraine 15,573 735 664 2,4314,763
 France 14,195 5,748 4,889 3,6706,019
 Italy 14,156 5,162 3,057 2,6013,520
 USA 12,723 1,525 1,349 1,3671,454
 Azerbaijan 11,161 4,312 2,989 3,3683,878
 Iran 10,573 3,058 5,541 6,6548,445
 Israel 10,022 4,155 3,564 3,7383,414
 United Kingdom 8,941 3,256 2,217 1,9592,043
 Spain 7,745 449 353 2391,552
 Moldova 6,215 33 24 3470
 Pakistan 6,032 3,799 424 39014
 Poland 3,147 115 182 176353
  Switzerland 3,115 63 28 4778
 Netherlands 3,054 30 28 6896
 Georgia 2,990 129 177 228135
 Malaysia 2,837 3,164 3,450 2,8073,922
Statelessness 2,558
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Australia 2,549 2 3 435
 Belgium 2,235 48 29 6779
 Austria 2,226 29 40 97138
 Canada 1,946
No data
No data
No data
3
 Singapore 1,804 10
No data
 2
No data
 Indonesia 1,702 1
No data
No data
No data
 UAE 1,664 5,771 5,880 5,5335,003
 Czech Republic 1,547 128 44 711,942
 Armenia 1,529 9 44 2316
 Latvia 1,478 291 256 413604
 Taiwan 1,381 1
No data
No data
3
 Thailand 1,260 1,987 1,459 1,4141,348
 Norway 1,168
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Sweden 1,092 3
No data
 712
 Hungary 1,014 23 5 2039
 Saudi Arabia 974 56 266 29080
 Lithuania 873 474 524 804654
 Greece 821 1 3 2341
 Denmark 775 2
No data
 12
 Bulgaria 738 17 76 2864
 Egypt 689 4
No data
No data
No data
 Portugal 683
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Slovakia 666 20 17 4855
 Serbia 654
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Finland 635 3 1620
No data
 Philippines 635 18
No data
 8402
 New Zealand 555
No data
 1
No data
No data
 Brazil 516
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Romania 508 1
No data
No data
17
 Slovenia 455 2 1 2275
 Bangladesh 448 9 6 818
 Estonia 421 1 2228
 Ireland 414
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Jordan 354 12
No data
No data
30
 Syria 313
No data
No data
No data
1
 Kuwait 302 51
No data
 5055
 Mexico 270
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Mongolia 269 92 66 11
No data
 Vietnam 269 433 464 23756
 Oman 248 9 2
No data
97
 Croatia 245 6
No data
No data
3
 Colombia 232
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Argentina 220
No data
No data
 1
No data
 South Africa 214
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Iraq 195
No data
No data
No data
7
 Qatar 174 76
No data
No data
40
 Tunisia 169
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Luxembourg 168
No data
No data
No data
11
 Algeria 156
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Nigeria 156
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Morocco 153
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Chile 149
No data
No data
No data
No data
   Nepal 143 7
No data
No data
384
 Sri Lanka 123
No data
No data
No data
164
 Palestine 111
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Venezuela 100
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 91
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Yemen 91
No data
No data
No data
18
 Cyprus 77
No data
No data
No data
2
 Bahrain 65
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Kenya 65
No data
No data
No data
No data
 DPRK 49
No data
No data
No data
No data
 North Macedonia 47
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Sudan 47
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Myanmar 44
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Malta 42
No data
No data
No data
 Marshall Islands 41
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Andorra 39
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Ecuador 36
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Cuba 35
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Peru 35
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Albania 33
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Comoros 31
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Iceland 28
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Ethiopia 25
No data
No data
 16
No data
 Montenegro 25
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Bolivia 21
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Costa Rica 19
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Laos 19
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Ghana 17
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Mauritius 17
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Cameroon 16
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Brunei 15
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 15
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Uganda 15
No data
No data
No data
1
 Bhutan 14
No data
No data
No data
8
 Tanzania 14
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Zimbabwe 13
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Cambodia 12
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Dominica 12
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Guinea 11
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Uruguay 11
No data
No data
No data
No data
 DRC 10
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Zambia 9
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Honduras 8
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Maldives 8
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Tokelau 8
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Trinidad and Tobago 8
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Rwanda 8
No data
No data
No data
No data
 São Tomé and Príncipe 8
No data
No data
No data
No data
 El Salvador 6
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Guatemala 6
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Libya 6
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Namibia 6
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Senegal 6
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Antigua and Barbuda 5
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Fiji 5
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Nicaragua 5
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Somalia 5
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Benin 4
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Eritrea 4
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Ivory Coast 4
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Haiti 4
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Monaco 4
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Gambia 3
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Madagascar 3
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Paraguay 3
No data
No data
No data
No data
  Vatican 3
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Angola 2
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Kiribati 2
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Mauritania 2
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Nauru 2
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Panama 2
No data
No data
No data
No data
 San Marino 2
No data
No data
No data
No data
 United States Virgin Islands 2
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Bahamas 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Bermuda 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Chad 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Dominican Republic 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 French Polynesia 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Gabon 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Grenada 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Guyana 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Jamaica 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Malawi 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Mali 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Niger 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Papua New Guinea 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Sierra Leone 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
 Vanuatu 1
No data
No data
No data
No data
Total 6,432,983 2,847,877 2,157,676 2,034,253 1,938,035

See also
  • Visa requirements for Uzbekistani citizens

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