Uzbekistan visa requirements
The rule for your own passport, from Uzbekistan's official immigration page, with the date it was last checked. The same answer for every guide in Uzbekistan: Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Tashkent.
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, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile
Thirty days without a visa, and the old requirement to register with the police every three nights is now handled by the hotel automatically — ignore older advice about collecting slips of paper.
e-Visa requiredup to 30 daysUSD 20
United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Mexico
Applied for online at e-visa.gov.uz and issued in two or three days.
e-Visa requiredup to 30 daysUSD 20
Every other passport
How to get it: Apply at e-visa.gov.uz — the government site — at least a week ahead. There is an industry of lookalike sites charging several times the twenty dollars.
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 Uzbekistan
SamarkandUzbekistanThe blue domes of the Silk Road, in a city Tamerlane rebuilt to be the centre of the world
BukharaUzbekistanA whole medieval city still standing: minarets, madrasas, covered bazaars and a pool with mulberry trees, and it is quieter than Samarkand
KhivaUzbekistanA walled city of mud brick in the desert, intact from the gates to the minarets, and the one Silk Road town you can walk round on the wall
TashkentUzbekistanThe biggest city in Central Asia, a metro with chandeliers, the world’s oldest Quran, plov cooked in cauldrons the size of a car, and the gateway to the rest