Caravanistan

My eVisa was stuck in "waiting for confirmation" for 2 weeks.

On Friday, I went to the embassy in Tashkent and they didn't even commented on this. Asked for 180€ to receive the visa on the spot (50%) or 120€ to receive in one week.

I only had to fill in a form including an address and phone number, I put a hostel in I would stay in Tehran. They asked why I was going and I explained I was travelling overland from China.

I am a New Zealand passport holder.

It's illegal to be without passport in Uzbekistan and was immediately bothered by the police outside but a photocopy of photo page and visa sufficed

After the weekend my status has already changed to 'issued'. So I guess one week waiting period is just revenue gathering.

I went to the embassy one working day later and managed to convince them to give me my passport and visa back early for no extra cost.
Although it possibly helped that it was independence day

30 days in country with 90 days to enter

Hi all. We just applied/payed for our visas at the consulate in Almaty (Australian passports, codes from key2persia). Everything was easy enough but the visa officer said that we will receive the visa via email, not in our passports. I asked if we could come back and get them put in when we get the email and he said "no. Show it at the border". Is this foolproof? We're going to apply for the Turkmenistan transit visa here as well, do they accept the Iran email? It seems the whole E visa system is more complicated than the old fashioned way.
Thanks in advance.

Jules Hobson wrote:Hi all. We just applied/payed for our visas at the consulate in Almaty (Australian passports, codes from key2persia). Everything was easy enough but the visa officer said that we will receive the visa via email, not in our passports. I asked if we could come back and get them put in when we get the email and he said "no. Show it at the border". Is this foolproof? We're going to apply for the Turkmenistan transit visa here as well, do they accept the Iran email? It seems the whole E visa system is more complicated than the old fashioned way.
Thanks in advance.

Iran is no longer putting a sticker in your passport since... I don't know, a while probably.
The evisa is a separate piece of paper yes (print it!)
Got it in Dushanbe (key2persia too) and apply for the turkmen transit visa here without problems.

Just be sure to get it by email before to leave Almaty.

Has anyone had any success with extending these evisa?
They look a little flimsy.

We started the e-visa process last week to get our visas at the Embassy in Dushanbe and both our requests have been rejected saying that we should apply with an agency. The email ended up in our spams.

Applied 2 weeks ago (Aus and NZ passports) and both are still ‘waiting for verification’. How long should I wait until resign all hope and accept that it’s stuck in limbo ?

Guys, when you got your E-Visa and went for the local consulate to hand in your passport (whilst travelling, outside your home country), did they check/copy your visa for the current country?

This can be an issue for any dual / 2nd passport holder.

Thanks for quick info, highly appreciated.
Henning

Hi, we (2 Belgians) applied through the e-visa system. Both requests were indentical and made just one after the other. After 3 days we received two e-mails: one approval (asked for 60 days but got 30) and one rejection. They said I had to apply through an agency. So I did apply through key2persia and go the letter of approval within 3 days. We then just had to go to the embassy (Brussels), with the lettre of approval, photo, travel insurance and a hotel resetvation. You then can get the visa immediately for 75e or a week later for 50e.

Max o wrote:Hi, we (2 Belgians) applied through the e-visa system. Both requests were indentical and made just one after the other. After 3 days we received two e-mails: one approval (asked for 60 days but got 30) and one rejection. They said I had to apply through an agency. So I did apply through key2persia and go the letter of approval within 3 days. We then just had to go to the embassy (Brussels), with the lettre of approval, photo, travel insurance and a hotel resetvation. You then can get the visa immediately for 75e or a week later for 50e.

Dear Max
thank you for the info.
We'll also try via the Brussels Embassy to travel in April.
1/ Say me, do they ask for a veiled head shot as passportphoto for the ladies ?
2/ Did you really booked an hotel ?
Best regards
Benoit

Irish citizen in London here! Visited the London consulate last month as my evisa application had been stuck on a 'Waiting for Verification' message for over two weeks. Was pleasantly surprised when they told me they could sort that out there and then! Filled out a paper form and gave them my passport and two photographs. They asked if I wanted the visa same day or next week and I chose next week, which cost £50. Payment is done in an office in Notting Hill, a 15 minute walk or 7-8 minute bus/tube ride away. Returned five days later and collected my passport and approved visa, which was also emailed to me as a PDF.

Looking forward to my Iran and Central Asia trip next month and glad I found this forum and website!