Uzbekistan Visa from Pakistan

An Uzbek tourist visa, explained properly

Uzbekistan opened up dramatically over the last few years. It scrapped visas for ninety-odd nationalities, launched an e-Visa for dozens more, and became one of the easiest countries in the region to visit. Pakistan was left out of all of it.

That is an uncomfortable thing for a travel agency to write, and it is why most Pakistani pages about Uzbekistan quietly describe someone else's visa. This page describes yours.

What is actually available to a Pakistani passport

The Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes three lists: countries with visa-free entry, countries whose nationals may use the e-Visa or a simplified consular procedure, and countries eligible for simplified transit. Pakistan appears on none of them.

What follows from that is the default rule: a Pakistani ordinary passport holder needs a visa issued by an Uzbek diplomatic mission before travelling.

• No visa-free entry. Pakistan is not among the 91 entries on the visa-free list.
• No e-Visa. The portal at e-visa.gov.uz issues visas only to nationals of countries with which a simplified procedure has been established. Pakistan is not one — and the portal itself says that where a country is not on the list, the system tells the user to contact the relevant Uzbek mission instead.
• No over-55 exemption. Uzbekistan does grant visa-free entry to travellers aged 55 and over for tourism up to 30 days — but only to citizens of China travelling in tourist groups, the United States and Vietnam. It is a real rule and it is widely misquoted as applying to everyone. It does not apply to Pakistan.

Neighbouring countries in South Asia are treated differently — India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal are on the e-Visa list. Pakistan is not, and we have no information suggesting that is about to change. If it does, this page will change with it.

The invitation letter — the requirement nobody mentions

In plain terms: you cannot walk into the embassy with a passport and a bank statement and ask for a tourist visa. Something has to exist at the Uzbek end first. That is the part of the process we handle.

Documents

The Embassy in Islamabad publishes this list for a tourist visa:

• A copy of the invitation letter from a tourist company in Uzbekistan
• A properly completed and signed visa application form
• Copies of the pages of your passport
• One passport-sized photograph, attached to the form
• A valid passport with at least one blank page, valid three months longer than the visa
• Consular fees, payable on collection

Two warnings sit on the same page, both worth taking literally: "Incomplete visa applications are not accepted", and "A personal interview with an applicant may be required."

Beyond that, the list is notable for what is not on it. Uzbekistan publishes no requirement for a bank statement, no minimum balance, no employment letter, no NTN, no tax return, no hotel booking, no return ticket and no travel insurance for a tourist visa. It also publishes no separate list for salaried, self-employed, retired or student applicants — nothing in the Uzbek requirements asks what you do for a living. If you are shown an "Uzbekistan visa checklist" full of salary slips and six-month statements, that is an agency's invention, not the embassy's requirement.

A small inconsistency to be ready for: the embassy's tourist page asks for one photograph at 3.5 × 4.5 cm, its business page asks for two, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says two at 35 × 45 mm. Carry two.

The embassy also publishes two pages specifically titled for Pakistani citizens — requirements and fees — and both are blank in every language. Do not read anything into them; the general tourist page above is the operative list.

What it costs

Here the two Uzbek sources disagree, and we are going to show you both rather than choosing.

The embassy's own instruction settles how to handle it: "Before making a payment, applicants have to check with the Consular Section the exact amount of the visa fee." Fees are paid to the embassy's designated bank account rather than in cash at the counter, and consular fees are payable on collection.

The two sources also diverge on multiple-entry visas — the Ministry publishes rates running to two and three years, while the Islamabad page stops at one year — and on group visas, where the Ministry sets a minimum of five people and the embassy's page says ten or more.

Source and date. Fee figures from the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs visa page and the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Islamabad, read 11 October 2026. These are Uzbek government consular fees paid to the Uzbek authorities, not to Breeze, and Uzbekistan can raise or lower them without notice. Our own charge is quoted separately.

Processing time

The embassy publishes up to 10 working days for citizens of countries that require an invitation — which includes Pakistan — and up to 5 working days where urgent processing is used. Transit visas and cases where visa support is already arranged are faster.

No separate urgent fee is published anywhere official, which is the second reason the embassy tells you to confirm the amount with the consular section before paying.

Add to that the time needed to arrange the invitation letter before the application can be filed at all. For an Uzbekistan trip, four to six weeks of lead time is sensible rather than cautious.

Where you apply, and who covers Lahore

There is one Uzbek mission in Pakistan: the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Islamabad, House 40, Khayaban-e-Iqbal Road, Sector F-8/3. Its consular district is the whole of Pakistan — there is no consulate in Karachi or Lahore.

The consular section publishes opening hours of Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 09:30 to 12:00, with telephone enquiries taken daily between 15:00 and 16:00. Applications may be submitted in person, by courier or by post, but the embassy is explicit that "applicants have to come personally to collect their visas."

So for an applicant in Lahore there is at least one trip to Islamabad built into this visa, and possibly two. Plan around it.

Registration after you arrive

Uzbekistan requires foreign visitors to be registered at their place of temporary stay. The rule is set by a Cabinet of Ministers resolution and administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs: registration is carried out within three days of entering the country, through the accommodation — the hotel — or at a territorial department of migration and citizenship registration. The embassy states the same rule as 72 hours and confirms who does it: if you are staying in a hotel, the hotel administration is obliged to register you automatically, and holders of a tourist visa must be registered at their hotel.

The penalties are published as multiples of the base calculation amount, Uzbekistan's standard unit for fines, under Article 225 of the Administrative Code:

We publish the multiples rather than a rupee figure deliberately. The base calculation amount is revised periodically — it was published as 412,000 Uzbek som in March 2026 — so any converted number would be wrong within months, and the conversion would be our arithmetic rather than the authority's.

The practical advice is the same as everywhere in Central Asia: stay in registered accommodation, confirm at check-in that they are registering you, and keep every registration slip until you have left the country.

If a visa does expire while you are in the country, Uzbekistan issues an exit visa, granting up to one month to leave. That is a remedy, not a plan.

Two portals with almost the same name

How we prepare your file

Uzbekistan is the clearest case on this site of a visa where the agency actually earns its fee, because the first requirement is something an individual traveller cannot produce alone: an invitation from a tour company inside Uzbekistan. Arranging that, and the ground arrangement behind it, is the work.

After that it is straightforward and we keep it that way: the application form from the right portal, a photograph to the right size, a passport checked against the three-months-beyond-the-visa rule, the fee confirmed with the consular section before anybody pays it, and the Islamabad trip timed around published consular hours on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If an interview is called, you will know what it is about before you go.

Breeze Travels & Tours has worked on visa files from Davis Road, Garhi Shahu, since 2003. Flights to Tashkent are issued by the same desk on our own IATA accreditation once the visa is in hand — see air ticketing.