Kazakhstan offers e-visas to tourists from 117 countries, including India
Kazakhstan is not usually the first destination that comes to a conventional traveller when they plan their trips. But, here’s some good news to make it in your bucket list.
Kazakhstan has introduced a single-entry electronic visa for citizens of 117 countries. An electronic business or tourist visa or one for medical treatment will be issued to travellers from all these countries including India. However, to obtain the visa, you need to produce a valid invitation from a person or agency.
The passport provided by the visa recipient should not cause doubts in authenticity and belonging to its owner or have marks of extension, reservations, notes, erasures and corrections, torn or unsewn pages; have at least two blank pages and expire no earlier than three months from the expiry date of the requested visa.
The Kazakh citizen or organisation extending the invitation to the travellers availing e-visas must inform migration authorities about the person’s arrival within three working days.
You can register for e-visa on www.vmp.gov.kz and enter the invitation number, which is sent by the inviting person or organisation from Kazakhstan, and fill in the visa application form. Once you have filled the form, pay the consular fee, which is not refundable and print the electronic visa. You need to show the hard copy when passing through passport control at the airports. Foreigners wishing to benefit from the new arrangement can enter the country through checkpoints at the Astana and Almaty international airports.
Indian travellers can fly non-stop to Kazakhstan from New Delhi on Air Astana, in 4 hrs 55 min.
Here’s the full list of nationalities that have been granted an e-visa to Kazakhstan:
1. Algeria 2. Andorra 3. Angola 4. Antigua and Barbuda 5. Aruba 6. Bahamas 7. Bahrain 8. Bangladesh 9. Barbados 10. Belize 11. Benin 12. Bhutan 13. Bolivia 14. Botswana 15. Brunei Darussalam 16. Burkina Faso – Upper Volta 17. Burundi 18. Cambodia 19. Cameroon 20. Central African Republic 21. Chad 22. China 23. Colombia 24. Comoros 25. Congo (Republic) 26. Costa Rica 27. Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 28. Cuba 29. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 30. Djibouti 31. Dominica 32. Dominican Republic 33. El Salvador 34. Eritrea 35. Ethiopia 36. Faroe Islands 37. Fiji 38. Gabon 39. Gambia 40. Ghana 41. Grenada 42. Guatemala 43. Guinea 44. Guinea-Bissau 45. Guyana 46. Haiti 47. Honduras 48. India 49. Indonesia 50. Jamaica 51. Kenya 52. Kiribati 53. Kuwait 54. Laos 55. Lebanon 56. Lesotho 57. Liberia 58. Liechtenstein 59. Macao 60. Macedonia 61. Madagascar 62. Malawi 63. Maldives 64. Mali 65. Marshall Islands 66. Mauritania 67. Mauritius 68. Micronesia 69. Montenegro 70. Morocco 71. Mozambique 72. Myanmar (Burma) 73. Namibia 74. Nauru 75. Nepal 76. Nicaragua 77. Niger 78. Nigeria 79. Oman 80. Palau 81. Panama 82. Papua New Guinea 83. Paraguay 84. Peru 85. Philippines 86. Qatar 87. Rwanda 88. Saint Kitts and Nevis 89. Saint Lucia 90. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 91. Samoa 92. San Marino 93. Sao Tome and Principe 94. Saudi Arabia 95. Senegal 96. Swaziland 97. Seychelles 98. Sierra Leone 99. South Africa 100. Sri Lanka 101. Suriname 102. Tanzania 103. Thailand 104. Togo 105. Tonga 106. Trinidad and Tobago 107. Tunisia 108. Turkmenistan 109. Tuvalu 110. Uganda 111. Uruguay 112. Vanuatu 113. Vatican 114. Venezuela 115. Viet Nam 116. Zambia 117. Zimbabwe
List of countries citizens of which may be issued an electronic single entry business and medical treatment visa to the Republic of Kazakhstan
1. Bahamas 2. Bermuda 3. Burundi 4. Honduras 5. Greenland 6. Indonesia 7. Qatar 8. Kuwait 9. Laos 10. Macao 11. Morocco 12. Vatican 13. Virgin Islands 14. Vietnam 15. Haiti 16. Cambodia 17. Cuba 18. Macedonia 19. Nicaragua 20. Oman 21. Serbia 22. South Africa 23. Montenegro