Visa Report : Tajikistan e-visa for Hong Kong Travellers

[teesurasak]

We are group of 8 from Hong Kong, both BNO/SAR holders, and we applied and issued e-visa from their official portal with no problem, and the visa was approved and sent to my email within an hour.
My tips is, make sure the size of your passport copy is less than 1mb, or fill everything correctly.

[kxstsr]

I am also holding Hong Kong SAR passport. Unfortunately my evisa application was rejected recently in April 2019 like other Chinese passport holders. I think I have filled everything correct, and even attached a hotel booking confirmation. But still they rejected with a simple comment: no.
I have also read post from another Chinese travel site saying like 1/4 of Hong Kong citizens were refused, but those refused finally managed to get the evisa with a second or third try.
Now I'm trying a second application, but the evisa site has shown "validation in progress" for more than a week with no results at all, and according to comments from another forum, such long waits still usually results a denial of evisa. According to that site, someone (who holds a Chinese passport) has waited for 2 weeks before his evisa application was rejected.
I really prefer they sentence quicker.

[Kit.law.70]

Can you mention what are the options you have picked in the portal, as a footnote to other travelers?
Especially for City of birth, Country of birth, Country of citizenship and Current country of citizenship, as appears on your passport.

[tyrion]

My friend and I (both HKSAR passport holders) applied for the e-visa with GBAO permit a few days ago. We didn't provide any more information than necessary. Just randomly picked one hostel in LP for our "address in Tajikistan". Our e-visas were approved after 3 working days. Good luck fellow Hongkongers!

[SCompass]

Hi All - I applied Evisa using IVISA service it has been a week or more still no answer. can I ask how long does it usually take for one to know if they got rejected or not. also did your second application works?

[isaac.hei]

Hi, may I know if they would refund the fee if they reject your e-visa? From above comments seems that it is ok to have a second try but if they do not refund each time then it would be like a trap of gambling...

[tyrion]

Hi, may I know if they would refund the fee if they reject your e-visa? From above comments seems that it is ok to have a second try but if they do not refund each time then it would be like a trap of gambling...

No they don't refund the fee...

[pmiu]

Applied for an e-visa (without GBAO permit) with BNO passport, two-week turnaround time, supplemented with hostel confirmation. Good luck everyone!