Kazakhstan visa requirements
The rule for your own passport, from Kazakhstan's official immigration page, with the date it was last checked. The same answer for every guide in Kazakhstan: Almaty, Astana, Charyn Canyon, Kolsay Lakes, Turkistan.
No visa neededup to 30 days
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, China
Thirty days without a visa for about eighty passports. Registration with the migration police is done automatically at the border now; older advice about a registration slip is out of date.
e-Visa requiredup to 30 daysabout USD 80
Every other passport
Through the visa-migration portal, with an invitation for some passports.
Entry rules change often and depend on your passport, your route and the purpose of the trip. Confirm on the official page before booking.
The guides in Kazakhstan
AlmatyKazakhstanA city of apples and mountains, with a ski lift from the suburbs, a cathedral built without a nail, and the best restaurants in Central Asia
AstanaKazakhstanA capital built from nothing on the steppe in twenty-five years: a glass pyramid, a tent the size of a district, a tower to climb, and a winter of minus thirty
Charyn CanyonKazakhstanA red-rock canyon three hours from Almaty that looks like Arizona and empties like Kazakhstan, walked in an afternoon
Kolsay LakesKazakhstanThree lakes stacked up a valley of the Tien Shan, a drowned forest in a fourth, and horses to ride between them
TurkistanKazakhstanThe mausoleum Timur built for a Sufi poet, the holiest place in Kazakhstan, and a new tourist city built around it