Kyrgyzstan is God’s gifted country. One can simply see the best of nature’s creations here. To name some of them are famous Issyk Kul Lake, Song Kol Lake, Ala Archa George, Canyon Fairytale and Karakol. On your Kyrgyzstan Tour Package you must experience hiking the mountains and seating under the sun near Issyk Kul Lake here. You can do lot more in Kyrgyzstan as Kyrgyzstan has gained lot of popularity as travel destination in entire Central Asia. So, isn’t it great to get visa for Kyrgyzstan easily? Yes, it is. Rule before 1^st September, 2017 was that all the visitors could obtain visa from one of the Kyrgyzstan diplomatic missions or Consular offices of Kyrgyz Republic abroad except those who came from one of the visa exempt countries or from the countries whose citizens are eligible for a visa on arrival. But from 1^st September, 2017 obtaining E visa is open for the visitors of all the countries. How does it work? Let us see.

From 1^st of September 2017 there is Electronic Visa in place which allows citizens of all foreign countries to apply for tourism, business and group tourist types of visa for 30 or 90 days online through E Visa system. Through Electronic Visa one can enter into Kyrgyzstan through 3 entry points which are Manas International Airport, Osh Airport and Ak-Zhol border crossing point on the Kyrgyzstan- Kazakhstan border. The E visa allows the visitors to obtain entry-exit tourist or business visas of Kyrgyz republic for up to 90 days. One can obtain E visa through the internet quite easily.

How to apply for E visa to Kyrgyzstan?

Applying and obtaining E visa to Kyrgyzstan is quite easy. You need to go to the website www.evisa.e-gov.kg and there you need to fill out a special form. You need to fill in contact details and information regarding your planned trip to Kyrgyzstan. Along with this detail you also need to upload a photo and an image of a passport of yours. Once done with filling all the information and uploading photo and image of travel documents you can make online payment for the consular fee and that’s it. It takes only few minutes to do the entire activity of applying for E visa online. The time taken to process an electronic visa is 3 working days only. This means you get your E visa quickly as well.

You will get a notification of the issuance or refusal to an electronic visa to an e-mail which you specified in the application. After receiving a visa in electronic format you will be provided a link by the system to the site of the “Electronic visa”, where you can take a print out of an electronic visa with a special QR code, read by using mobile applications on smartphones. Also note that each tourist must get a separate E visa and this includes newborn child and kids as well.

Who can apply?

All the citizens of foreign countries can apply for Electronic Visa. However you should check the eligibility criteria before you apply for it. Legal entities in the Kyrgyzstan can also invite foreign citizens both individuals and as a part of tourist groups. Thus they can apply for short term business and tourist electronic visa.

Why E visa

So, foreign citizens who receive an Electronic visa need to enter and leave Kyrgyzstan through checkpoints across the State border of the Kyrgyz Republic located at the international airport Manas in Bishkek Osh international airport “Osh”, and at the border crossing point “Ak-Jol” on the border with the Republic of Kazakhstan. They don’t need to present a visa sticker in the travel document. The authorities can check the availability of an electronic visa, its category, expiration date and multiplicity, by scanning a special QR code on a printed version of an electronic visa.
This step of offering E visa has been taken by Kyrgyzstan to draw attentions of foreign citizens intending to visit Kyrgyzstan. You can now easily obtain visas both in electronic format and also in the standard version by addressing to diplomatic missions or consular offices of the Kyrgyz Republic abroad or Visa points at international checkpoints across the State border of Kyrgyzstan. So next time when you look for Kyrgyzstan Tour Package you can contact us for obtaining E visa.