Issuing visas in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Visa recipients:

• heads of foreign states, governments, international organizations, equated to diplomatic status and members of their families;
• members of parliaments, governments of foreign states, international organizations, equated to diplomatic status and members of their families - holders of diplomatic passports, as well as members of official foreign delegations and persons accompanying them - holders of diplomatic passports;
• honorary consuls of the Republic of Kazakhstan and members of their families;
• holders of diplomatic passports, as well as passports of international organizations, having a status equivalent to diplomatic agents traveling to the Republic of Kazakhstan on official business;
• diplomatic couriers carrying diplomatic mail - holders of diplomatic passports, in the presence of a courier sheet.

Visa multiplicity and period of validity:

• Single entry visa   up to 90 days, for the entire duration of the visa;
• Multiple visa up to 1 year, for the entire duration of visa.

Visa recipients:

• diplomatic agents of foreign diplomatic and equivalent missions;
• consular officials of foreign consular institutions, employees of international organizations and their representative offices accredited in the Republic of Kazakhstan, traveling to work in the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• Honorary consuls of foreign states accredited in the Republic of Kazakhstan and their family members.

Visa multiplicity and period of validity:

• Single entry visa  up to 90 days, for the entire duration of the visa;
• Multiple visa up to 180 days, for the entire duration of visa.

Visa recipients:

• members of official foreign delegations, accompanying persons and members of their families;
• representatives of foreign mass media accredited in the Republic of Kazakhstan and traveling to the Republic of Kazakhstan (in agreement with Communications Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan);
• military personnel of foreign states traveling to the Republic of Kazakhstan on official business;
• persons who are dependent on persons applying for visas of categories «A2» and «A4»;
• holders of passports of international organizations who do not have the status equated to diplomatic agents, as well as holders of national passports working in international organizations and their family members;
• holders of service passports traveling to the Republic of Kazakhstan on official business;
• diplomatic couriers carrying diplomatic mail, if they do not have a diplomatic passport, in the presence of a courier sheet;
• persons going on a business trip to the Republic of Kazakhstan at the invitation of foreign diplomatic missions, consular offices, international organizations and their representative offices, state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• cosmonauts and astronauts traveling to the Republic of Kazakhstan for a flight into outer space and returning from the outer space to Earth.

Visa multiplicity and period of validity:

• Single entry visa up to 90 days, for the entire duration of the visa;
• Multiple visa up to 1 year (for cosmonauts and astronauts up to 3 years), for the entire duration of visa.

Visa recipients:

• members of the administrative, technical and service personnel of diplomatic missions;
• employees of international organizations or their representative offices;
• consular officials, employees of the service personnel of consular institutions of foreign states accredited in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and members of their families.

Visa multiplicity and period of validity:

• Single entry visa  up to 90 days, for the entire duration of the visa;
• Multiple visa up to 180 days, for the entire duration of visa.

Visa recipients:

• persons traveling to the Republic of Kazakhstan on private business;
• persons traveling to the Republic of Kazakhstan for a funeral or in cases of illness of relatives/friends - in the presence of supporting documents;
• spouses, children (including adopted) or parents (guardians, trustees) (if there are documents confirming kinship) entering the Republic of Kazakhstan together with citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• spouses, children (who are not ethnic Kazakhs) entering the Republic of Kazakhstan together with ethnic Kazakhs.

Visa multiplicity and period of validity:

• Single entry visa  up to 90 days, for the entire duration of visa;
• Multiple visa up to 180 days, for the entire duration of visa;
• Multiple visa (former compariots) – up to 3 years, not more than 90 days period of stay at each entry.