HOW TO: Apply For Mongolian Visa, Astana, Kazakhstan
Address: ul. Daraboz 35, Astana. Kazakhstan
Telephone: (+7) 7172-965 155 / 151
Fax: (+7) 7172-965 156
Email: astana@mfa.gov.mn
Website: www.monembassykaz.gov.mn
Office Hours: 9:30am - 12:30am
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Processing time: 3 days
Cost: $58 for 1 month, single entry, tourist visa
Documents needed:
Passport
Copy of Passport
2 x Passport style photos
Flights in and out of Mongolia
Hotel bookings
Application form filled out correctly
Bank statement
Money
As with most visas we have applied for, you will need to leave your passport at the embassy for the duration of the processing time. For a 30 day, single entry Tourist visa, this should take 3 days.
Along with your passport you will need to have a photocopy of your passport, black and white is fine, and 2 passport style photos. Now, if you’ve read our blog post about Chinese Visas you’ll remember me explaining how picky they are about these photos… the Mongolian visa office accepted our photos with no question.
I would suggest you do follow these photo guidelines:
- photo taken in the last 6 months
- colour photo
- plain white background (grey seems ok too)
- no glasses/hair in face (as with a normal passport photo)
The flights we booked through hwww.agent.ru. This website gives you a certain number of days after booking flights to pay for them, so you can easily make reservations and get the flight booking number without paying a penny. Follow this link to Stingynomads.com’s step by step guide on how to do this.
You will also need at least 1 hotel booking for the beginning of your trip. We did the same thing for our Mongolian visas as we did for the Chinese visas, just went to booking.com [INSERT LINK] and chose any hotel we could book without having to pay up front.
The Application form you can find HERE. Fill this out as best you can. We didn’t need an invitation by a company or person, so we didn’t fill out this section and it was no problem.
Bank statements, I read in many places we needed them, and many places that we didn’t. So we took them so as not to waste time, because there in absolutely no where to print close to the Consulate office. I would suggest to do this, just in case. (We also already had copies of this from our Chinese Visa application.
You will pay on collection of your visa. We payed in US Dollars as we had enough to cover this cost, and I would suggest to always have US Dollars with you as it is a currency that is accepted all around the world.
