Amendments to the Law “About introduction of a visa-free regime for citizens of some states within 60 days”
Amendments, 09-04-2019
The president of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbay Jeenbekov signed amendments to the Law “About introduction of a visa-free regime for citizens of some states within 60 days”. The law was adopted in order to simplify the procedures of visa issuing to foreign citizens and to contribute to the development of tourism in Kyrgyzstan. The amendments to the law were adopted by the Jogorku Kenesh (parliament) of the Kyrgyz Republic on February 28, 2019.
The amendments extend the validity of the visa-free regime for citizens of certain states until December 31, 2025 and expand the list of countries by 7 new states, whose citizens won’t have to apply for an entry visa. This unilateral visa-free regime is valid up to 60 days.
The new countries included in the visa-free regime are:
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Chile
- Andorra
- Montenegro
- San marino
- Oman
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Cyprus
Visa-free regime before 09-04-2019
Remember, that the original list of countries enjoying the unilateral 60 days visa-free regime included the following countries:
- Australia
- Austria
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brunei-Darussalam
- Canada
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Kuwait
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Vatican
Besides, citizens of the following countries are exempt from visa requirement to enter Kyrgyzstan:
- Azerbaijan Republic
- Republic of Armenia
- Republic of Belorussia
- Georgia
- Republic of Kazakhstan
- Korean Democratic People’s Republic
- Republic of Cuba
- Malaysia (with official and tourist purpose up to 1 month)
- Republic of Moldova
- Mongolia (up to 3 months)
- Russian Federation
- Vietnam
- Republic of Tajikistan
- Turkey (up to 1 month)
- Ukraine (up to 3 months)
- Japan
- Republic of Uzbekistan (up to 2 months)
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