Please fill in the form to get a letter of invitation, if you need one – we offer Uzbekistan LOIs for tourists and for business. You can find more info about prices and requirements below, and reviews of customers in the comment section.
Tourist LOI is required if you are not on the list of LOI-free or visa-free countries.
You can apply for a letter of invitation through this form with a reputable agency based in Uzbekistan. 7 to 10 working days processing time. Express processing is possible (4-5 working days) for an extra 10$, but a double consular fee will be charged at the embassy (not by us). If you need more information about the visa, see our Uzbek visa guide.
Tourist LOI prices
Price for the Uzbek LOI, when you use visa support form ➱
- 65$ for visa up to 30 days
- 10$ extra charge for express service (plus double consular fee at the embassy) 4-5 days. But it can be delayed by MFA without any explanation.
- 10$ for each additional entry (double or triple entry visa)
- Children under 16 – half price!
Business LOI
Business LOI is a new service that we offer for entrepreneurs and anyone wishing to stay in Uzbekistan for a longer period. Please note that we will apply for the requested period, but there is no guarantee of LOI being issued for the entire duration. (i.e. 3 months instead of 1 year). Difference will be refunded. Add “Business LOI” when you use our form.
Prices:
- 400$ – up to 3 months
- 500$ – 6 months
- 600$ – 1 year
We accept online payments via PayPal.
Booking form
Please leave a review of our service in the comment form below when you get your LOI. Thank you, we aim to please!
Great service, I even got my LOI and Telex before LOL said need 5/7 working days but he give me only 3 days
Thanks for good servic.. 👍👍
Coming from a country who still doesn’t have the privilege to enter Uzbekistan without a visa, I decided to obtain an LOI through Caravanistan.
Pavel assisted me in all of my needs and made the whole process painless, easy and organized.
Kudos to the guy for also being very attentive to my queries and gave me prompt and respectful responses
I can personally vouch for Caravanistan for LOI needs for Uzbekistan!
My heartfelt gratitude to all of you guys!
Central Asia, here I come!
Super professional people. I was in contact with Mrs. Elena, she is very professional and responsive, I got my LOI in three working days and another three working days to get the visa on passport per post from Uzbekistan Embassy at Berlin. 100% recommend them.
Great service with Aliya: prompt email correspondence, clear instructions, rapid turnaround time.
A quick note for Canadians seeking a visa: as there is no Embassy of Uzbekistan in Canada, visa processing for Canadians is best done via consulate services in the USA (unless already travelling in Central Asia). The Consulate General of Uzbekistan in New York City formerly processed Canadian applications; this has *very recently* changed to the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C. Please take note and send your passports and visa applications there accordingly. The processing time was very efficient in our case (2 business days). We used Fedex International with a prepaid envelope back to our address.
The service was fast, efficient, and hassle free. I recommend Caravanistan for travellers to Uzbekistan.
I contacted various travel agencies and found a great company headed by Nodira. She and her team quickly accepted my order, answered my many questions. Without impose any other services. I only asked for LOI, railway tickets and Urgench-Tashkent air ticket. I will pay on arrival.
Applied for Uzbekistan LOI in June 2017 with the Caravanistan. Everything went smoothly. The visa support was very efficient and all done very fast.
My question is that I am an afghan Citizen i would like to visit Uzbekistan, as i read the guideline it is written no LOI for Afghan nationals so how i should and what procedures have to follow to get a visa.
Thanks
Jalalzai
Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to help you. You can talk to officials from Uzbek embassy, perhaps they can recommend you someone.
Wow what a great experience!! We are travelling via motorcycles and dealing with Aliya has been nothing short of awesome. Super professional service that is prompt and as promised. Highly recommend and we would deal with her again without question.
Initially I was nervous about the process of applying for the LOI as it is difficult to tell which company is legitimate or not, but reading the other reviews did help put my mind at ease.
Hence, I would like to contribute a review on support of Caravanistan, and the ease of which they made the process. I applied for a fast-track Uzbekistan LOI.
Caravanistan replied to my queries quickly with good information. Totally worth the money. They also fill in the visa application so I literally only had to send my passport with the documents provided by Caravanistan to the embass, and then pick it up.
We also bought train tickets from them and alena from Caravanistan delivered it to our hotel, went through each of them as they are in Uzbek and gave good advise about local delights.
I thoroughly recommend them.
As I sent the request for the LOI I had the answer back where the agency was asking me all my details. After I replied I received the same day an email with all the information for the payment. Once I paid, they told me that all was ok. Then I received ten days later an email saying that I could go to the Uzbek Embassy in Bishkek for the last part of the documents (Visa payment, health insurance, copy of passport…).
Easy and kind :)
It wasnt the greatest service i have received. I am quite disappointed. After I sent my passport and the visa application, I just got this message (pasted below). There was explanation how am I incompatible to their internal policies. I am Canadian and I hold valid passport. I would have liked if they were more clear and told me how exactly i dont meet their requirement.
“We regret to inform that we cannot accept your visa support inquiry. We reserve the right to decline the order incompatible to our internal policies, nevertheless it does not mean that you cannot or have no right apply for visa to Uzbekistan. We recommend you to inquire any other agency eligible for visa support. “
Hello Raheel,
sad to read you did not get it. Were you intending to get married in Uzbekistan? Perhaps not. We have to be very vigilant. Believe me, we would LOVE to get you a LOI and earn a bit of money, but alas, we have to make sure first and foremost that we do not get closed down by the Uzbek government.
We do not have close ties to people in high places, so we have to be extra careful that we only let in people who will not get us into trouble, and for the sake of security, sometimes innocent victims are made. Perhaps you are one of those.
But other agencies have more freedom to operate, and they will be able to get you a LOI. Hope you have a lovely time in Uzbekistan! Steven
Hi, getting the LOI was a straight forward process.
Aliya is who I dealt with and she was very thorough clear and helpful.
Hi Saule. This was the most professional service l came across, Aliya was so helpful explain all the thing l need to know, the LOI arrived complete correct, and when l went to the Uzbekistan Embassy in Almaty the Visa was waiting for me.This services cut all the worries out for me. Thanks David
We had a wonderful time in Uzbekistan, also because of the great treasure of info on Caravanistan.
-For us Dutch, the Uzbekistan visa was easy to arrange thanks to the service we used through Caravanistan. All we had to do was e-mail the itinery and a few days later we had the LOI to fit our travels. At the embassy we had to pick out beforehand, Brussels in our case, the visa was then arranged in 10 minutes. All in all good and fast service. I would recommend this service to anyone travelling to Uzbekistan without a tour operator.-
Highly recommend the service, I got the LOI earlier this year, it all went smoothly – the initial contact, details provided, the payment, everything.
Keep up the good work,
Mihai
I applied for the LOI through the caravanistan web site in January 2017. I was quickly contacted by Aliya. She told me what I needed do, the information she required and did everything she said she would and I got the LOI when Aliya said it would arrive. Aliya also gave me information about applying for the visa and staying in the country which was very helpful. I Highly recommend the service. Thanks Aliya and caravanistan
I, too, heartily recommend this LOI service. Aliya answered all my questions and handled it professionally.
I was realy very pleased with the service. When I contacted the site to have the LOI, a lady in the name of Guzal replied, she made maximum for me to obtain the visa, I had some problems concerning the passport in Uzbekistan , But she continued to help me without stopping. In addition she bought me the train tickets. At first I was not happy when I was asked to book the hotels through them, but I have to thank them for those nice hotels, especially EMIR B&B hotel in Samarkand and Bibi-Kanym hotel in Bukhara, they were really perfect : the staff, the location, the building …
I hope to be able to return another time.
Very nice service and super smooth process. Aliya was so helpful and easy going. Totally recommend them for getting Uzbek LOI.
I would highly recommend you guys and your website and getting an LOI was perfectly easy.
A brilliant service..well worth getting a LOI. Aliya was most helpfull. Obtained my visa in Baku..same morning allthough it was a chew on going back into Baku to make payment for visa in bank then back up to embassy with reciet..plus side was I could change date from application if I had wanted to..
Although my LOI for Uzbekistan came late and I had to change my plan in Iran for getting visa at the end of Iran itinerary, I still appreciate Aliya ‘s warm support. The visa procedure was so quick thanks to your LOI. Thank you very much for LOI and the information you gave us on Uzbek’s hostel and accommodation.
I was very happy with the service I received regarding my LOI.
We asked for a LOI in advance since we wanted to speed up the visa application process in Baku. Everything went smoothly and Aliya handled our request very quickly. Also communication by email was very good and she replied immediately. We got the LOIs very fast in less than 4 working days. After our experience with Usbek officials, you can have bad luck or timing and have to wait longer, which is nothing Aliya can change. Getting the visa with the LOI in Baku was straightforward, and we got it the same day. Very great service, but note that you can also find cheaper options online.
My LOI came 2 weeks late, almost had to change my plan. But it was fine finally. Alyia was great, she replied all of my emails with details. Then i bought another LOI for Iran, it sweetly came 4 days later. My trip through Central Asia was very smooth thanks to the detailed information in caravanistan.com.
Dear Saule and Steve,
Thank you for the opportunity to give you feedback.
We had a wonderful time in Uzbekistan and speak highly of the Uzbek people, the culture and the historic sites.
We are independent travellers so when we needed a LOI to visit Uzbekistan, we searched the internet to choose a company to assist us. Our choice of Caravanistan proved to be excellent. Aliya was wonderful, being very prompt in response to our emails. In addition to organising our LOI, she provided helpful information on internal train timetables and organised tickets which were then delivered to our hotel in Tashkent. Aliya made the whole process run smoothly. The pricing was very reasonable for the service provided. We highly recommend Caravanistan as a reliable, trustworthy company to do business with.
I was in Uzbekistan in june.
Aliya was wonderfull !!!!!!!
Thanks a lot !!!!!!!!!!! :-)
Caravnistan Visa Support are FANTASTIC! I arrived in Tashkent and had problems at the airport beccause I failed to read the fine print regarding paying US cash for the Visa when coming through passport control. ISilly me didn’t have any US currency on me so I was held there for a few hours while they tracked down Aliya, my Visa Support contact.
I am forever grateful to Aliya for taking the time to come and save me so late at night. She even took me to a hotel ATM for some US currency then we went to exchange it to SOM. On top of all this she even took me out for a mini tour around Tashkent including some tasty street Shaslik Kebab mmm.
So I have no hesitation in highly recommending Caravanistan Visa Support.
Thank You again ;)
Hi,
Booking the LOI via Caravanistan was as painless as these things can be, the contact Aliya was prompt to reply and after receiving my payment I was sent the LOI within the timeframe. No problems at all.
Hi,
everything was ok about booking my visa through Caravanistan, except for one (important) thing:
Even if I went for the express option (3-5 days) and paid extra money, it took me 2 weeks to obtain my visa!!
That’s why I had to exchange my itinerary…
Anyway, I found all the information on caravanistan.com very helpful when I was traveling through Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.
Hi Gunnar,
Sorry to hear about the slow process. This service is like trying your luck. I know that they pay extra fee to apply for a quicker processing in MFA and apply the same day (without waiting for working days).
I think Aliya also writes that there is no guarantee that MFA will be speedy. I think that they were holding your docs in MFA for too long.
We offer you a discount for the next time you apply for your LOI. Thank you!
This agency is legit and everything went well. We obtained a visa after a Polish agency didn’t manage to secure one. Recommended.
Hi Saule
Caravanistan was recommended to us by some friends as we needed an LOI for our visa.
Your service was fast and professional and we appreciated how trouble free it was.
Thanks for providing this great service.
Hi Saule, the service etc for UOI was great.
Dear Steven and Saule!
I would like to thank you very much indeed for having introduced the LOI and visa support. I cannot recommend it enough, especially my contact Guza. She was helpful all the way, providing excellent excellent service and a very efficent vommunication channel to the Uzbek Minstry of Foreign Affairs. When misunderstanding occured, she helped to resolve it in no time. And she and the travel agency’s director came personally to the hotel I was staying to greet me and hand me the train tickets I had booked through them. Deeply appreciated.
Booked the 15 days tourist visa and was supported by Aliya. We started the process before starting the Silk Road travel from Turkey to China. We agreed on picking up our visas at the Uzbek embassy in Baku. All went according to plan and given time schedules regarding receiving the LOI, thank you very much! Aliya was very helpful and servide minded! The only “hassle” was the actual pick up at the Baku embassy, the ppl in charge there really kept us in the dark and ignored us “forever”, but at the end of the day we did get our Uzbek visas and moved on.
Hi Saule and Steven,
I did the LOI booking by choosing the urgent option. According to your website the process should take only 4-5 working days, but now I have been waiting for 9 working days (totally 11 days), and I’m still waiting!
When I ask Aliya, who is the woman I have been communicating throughout, her response is that everything is up to the Ministry, and there is nothing we can do but wait…
Because of this, there should be some information on your website saying that sometimes the process will take much more time than 4-5 working days, even if the urgent option is chosen.
Gunnar.
Dear Gunnar,
Thank you for your feedback! I will update the info!
Dear Steven and Saule,
Your support with our LOI-application for Uzbekistan has been great, as well as all your other services. You have been very attentive to our requests and quick in your responses.
Thank you so much!
Good evening Saule and Steven,
I would first like to thank you for Caravanistan, as a bicyclist travelling east it has been indispensable.
My booking of the LOI through Caravanistan went very smoothly and professionally, with rapid contact, and very good service. I got a 15 day LOI for the above mentionned prices, and my trip to the embassy in Tehran was hassle free.
I believed I booked the LOI through Caravanistan. The lady that I communicated throughout is Elena Muratova. She is efficient through the procedure. I can’t fault her and would definitely recommend any one who is going to Uzbekistan to book through her.
Hi Saule & Steven,
You guys were awesome!
I got LOI nice and smoothly on time as expected and Aliya friendly answered every question I had in the process.
Keep up the good work.
Hi Saule and Steven,
Booking went very smooth, even when it was for 5 months in advance!
Embassy in Brussels went OK too with this long time in advance!
You guys offer a great service. Aliya is/was extremely efficient and accommodating and responded always very quickly to my e-mails. The whole experience was very pleasant. I am looking forward to meeting her in Tashkent when I pick up my train tickets. Also your website is extremely helpful for organizing a trip through the “stans”, you provide great details that are nearly impossible to find elsewhere.
I received excellent service in obtaining my Uzbek LOI from Aliya. She was patient and very helpful with all my questions. LOI was turned around in about a week or so, I think. Everything went just as planned at the Istanbul consulate, except that I needed to pick up my visa two days later instead of the same day. (This seems to have changed recently.) For me this wasn’t a big problem, just an inconvenience. It’s also a consulate specific gripe, nothing that others could do about that.
Cheers, Saule and Steven, and thanks for offering such a great site for people to share their experiences and get help.
The Uzbek LOI worked like a charm. We got a reply from the travela gency the next day with explanations on how to apply through them for the LOI. We then got it by e-mail when it was ready from the Uzbekistan foreign ministry.
Dear Saule and Steven,
Thank you for your help. I will recommend your company to my friends.
Dear Saule and Steven,
Thanks for your email and for your great website! The Uzbek LOI procedure through Caravanistan was very smooth. Replies were prompt, accurate and complete. The procedure was very fast and the handling is professional. We received our LOI without any problems within 9 days. The smooth handling of the LOI, convinced us to make use of the tour company also for other things like train tickets and tour guides.
Cheers
The LOI service was good, professional with clear instructions on required documents. We purchased LOI for x2 pax, urgent processing, 15 day visa length with double entry. Price was $210USD, payable via PayPal. LOI was sent via email 7 days later.
Hi guys, LOI service was fast and easy. Received the LOI + application Form within specified time, and got the Visa in 1 day at the embassy in Almaty :-)
Thanks!
Applied for the LOI for my family on December 29th 2015; contacted by Aliya on the 30th. Aliya’s service (LOI + hotel booking) was very helpful. We sent all the paperwork to the embassy of Uzbekistan in Brussels on February 17th, from where our passports were sent to the embassy of Turkmenistan (also in Brussels) for our transit visa. The latter took some time, but we received our visa on March 22nd, 2016. I would recommend the LOI service and use it again. Thanks, Caravanistan!
Correspondent was very helpful in answering all my emails and queries very quickly, was very happy at how practical the process was. Definitely recommend Caravanistan!!
Super easy and straightforward. Had to supply a bit more paperwork (wrote a letter explaining my travel and provided proof of former employment and qualifications) as I said I was unemployed at present, but after that got the LOI very promptly, and no troubles at the embassy, 3 hour turnaround for visa in passport. Thanks SO much.
Hi Saule and Steven,
The service was excellent – very easy to find the help on your pages and a very efficient service followed – will be back to process further visas.
Thanks!!
Irlanski
Five star service! Aliya is very helpful, fast and kind with email correspondece. I got the LoI and a domestic flight in Uzebkistan organized with Caravanistan and Aliya.
Aliya of Caravanistan’s Tashkent office made all arrangements for LOI and hotel reservation in a fast and professional fashion. I am really impressed.
Booked with them early October, got our LOI almost immediately.
Would definitely recommend them.
Hi all,
I agree with the comments below. After filling in the online form, I was contacted by Aliya Japarova in Tashkent. She was very informative and efficient.
Thanks a lot Aliya for securing those LOIs and train tickets!
Femke and co.
Dear friends from Caravanistan,
I was very happy with your service, you answer all my questions before asking for the LOI, then after sending all the documents 10 days later the LOI was here!..
Thank you for everything!
Very professional service. Fast response. Got visa in Almaty. Showed up at embassy at 1pm. At least a hundred people crowded around. Fortunately, a man from Turkmenistan saw me and pulled me to the side saying “tourists” (meaning I think foreigners) there were only three of us! He also the guard said “3 o’clock”. The guard came out once and said 3 o’clock. Then he came out at 2, said 3 o’clock, and let the three of us in to a separate office in back. Paperwork, bank (the bank people know exactly what to do), return, finished, probably an hour from the time we got into the office.
Btw, border at shymkent/toshkent crossing on Nov.28 was very smooth. They even wanted me to jump the line but I wasn’t going to cut in front of a bunch of old people (even tho I am 71).
Serious and fast service
took around ten days. No issues. Love caravanistan. Americans applying in Baku dont really need an loi though, unless you want to be able to get it the same day. However that depends if you are able to get to the bank (after you apply) and back to the embassy for 15:30, and there is not too long a line. Be sure to be back as soon as possible with the receipt from the bank. It is also likely that people will complain, call up to the embassy, and be let in before you even though you arrived first. Establish your place with the guards and act like shit is urgent!
It was a good service thank you. No complaints. If only I had sourced Turkmenistan loi through you as my partner and I weren’t allowed in before my partners Uzbekistan visa ran out so we had to leave.
Super straightforward process. Received in 11 calendar days.
Communication was easy, had couple of emails with a very responsible agent. Got my visa + hotel reservation and travelled to Uzbekistan from Tajikistan.
Some tips to travellers crossing Tajik-Uzbek border: declare everything you have (yes, that used watch on your wrist, too) when entering Uzbekistan and keep the copy till you leave the country. Also, some taxi prices for your reference: Dushanbe – Tajik border: 5 USD, Uzbek border – Denau taxi station: 3 USD, Denau – Tashkent or Denau Bukhara: 10-15 USD. Do NOT negotiate your ride from Uzbek border to your final destination (scammers everywhere). Do NOT pay till you reach your destination. Just beware and enjoy your travel!
Excellent communication and great support throughout the whole visa process – would highly recommend Caravanistan.
The visa took about a week to come through – much faster than expected and just in time for my wonderful trip.
Thanks!
Great and quick service, the LOI/visa support was the most efficient and fast service we did experience in these parts. Thanks a lot, Caravanistan!
Quick and professional service. Was contacted by Aliya, she answered all my questions, emailed me the LOI within expected timeframe and followed up afterwards asking if I got the visa. Would recommend!
We got our loi within a week and never had to wait more than a few minutes to get an email response to our questions! Once we had the loi we printed (for everything we had to do we got detailed instructions) and then went to the embassy and got the visa within a few minutes. Thank you for making this spontaneous trip to Uzbekistan possible!
Efficient service for the UZ LOI.
Awesome service, quick replies to any questions. Got the letter in seven days. Had terrible experience with another website trying to get the letter. Thanks for everything! Would definitely use you again.
This is the only Way! So smooth service! Aliyah is the Best travelagent I have ever had! Everything worked out dispite me being a little late with applying. 10/10. Five stars, would not hesitate to recommend. Trustworthy website for a corrupt and messed up part of the world
Was very easy to get visa, no problem at all! Service was excellent, same as trip to Uzbekistan! Services and people there are very pleasant, helping in all kind of situations. Strongly recommend to visit.
I applied for the Uzbek LOI through the Caravanistan site and was put in touch with Nilufar. The service provided was prompt and efficient, communication was excellent and there were no surprises – except for how easy the whole process was. I would recommend this service.
The service was very reliable and dos everything on time, answering any questions swiftly. Really recommended if you need less hassle of can’t wait the extra 2 weeks processing without the documentation
Excellent service, I recommend it. My partner and I both applied and got the LOI within about a week. Communication with the travel partner was good, we paid them using Paypal.
Once we got the LOI, we printed it, headed to the Uzbek embassy in Bishkek, and both got our visa without any problem.
This was a great service. I applied online, whilst on the move. Only took days, communication was great: quick, clear, courteous. We needed LoI for an Australian and a NZ passport. Was supplied with a copy of the LoI, complete with the telex to embassy reference number, and 2 x already completed Visa application forms. Very helpful. We obtained our visas at the Uzbek embassy in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Only took two and a half hours including time waiting at bank to pay fee. All good. Can’t recommend this enough.
Good service. Had the Loi within the expected time. Great communication via Skype. Very convenient and comprehensive.
Just a short review:
Communication: good
Reply on questions: good
English: good
Supportive and accurate.
It was super easy to get a LOI through that service. The lady we dealt with was very kind and efficient (always replied per email within a few hours). We are French and Swiss passport holders, as we are both unemployed and couldn’t give them an employment letter as requested, we just had to write a letter explaining our current situation and previous work experience etc. Paid with Paypal, and got the LOI 10 days later.
Applied for the Uzbek visa in Dushanbe, and got it the same day.
I would highly recommend that service!
I applied for LOI for a 15 day trip at Caravanistan and was referred to Aliya at the Uzbek Travel. She handled the case professionally and within a week I received the LOI. I am really satisfied with their service and would recommend them to my friends.
Caravanistan put me onto Aliya at Uzbek Travel, who sorted out an Uzbek LOI for my partner. This was completed with very little fuss, no hassle, quickly and with excellent communication from Aliya. Good value for money too – $70 US. Took approx 10 days and was able to pay by PayPal which was a big plus. Highly recommended service
Excellent service. I received the application form already filled out, all I needed to add was date and signature. Got the visa in Ankara (Dutch passport, LOI); after payment of 70 US$ at nearby Akbank, the visa was issued on the spot.
For my coming trip to Uzbekistan, I used caravanistan to procure my LOI/Visa support.
Ms Munira Musabayeva of caravanistan was Very professional, Courteous and prompt in attending to all my inquiries, providing me with all pertinent documents , and best of all was the easy payment through the secure means of “Paypal”. I have no hesitation in recommending their excellent service, especially dealing with Ms Munira Musabayeva.
Muslim Harji
Canada
I am very satisfied with the service. friendly and helpful staff.
I recommend my friends to use the home page. Thanks for your help Carvanistan
As a Chinese citizen, it was difficult for me to get a Uzbek visa or even LOI. Thanks to the perfessional work and patience of Ms. Munira Musabaeva, I finally got everything successfully.
But one thing should be metioned, if you have a Chinese or other “troublesome” citizenship, you’d better prepare everything as early as possible, because your LOI might be examined for 14 working days or even longer. I was not informed about that at the very beginning, thus I did everything in an unhurried manner, and only then was told that I might be late. I was so lucky that I have a friend-diplomat, and thanks to her help I got LOI immediately before New Year’s Eve, otherwise I’m afraid that my whole trip might be a collapse, and this might arouse quite unpleasant misunderstandings. But regardless of all these problems, I will still strongly recommend Caravanistan’s service to my friends.
Some more tips: try not to get your Uzbek visa in Moscow or Almaty (or maybe plus Novosibirsk), especially before New Year, or you will have some quite unforgettable experience among thousands of Tajik and Uzbek migrant-workers in the embassy.
Great service, I even got my LOI and Telex before they told me I was getting it, they accept PAYPA which is fast and confortable.
I recommend it.
By the time when I needed the uzbek visa I was living in Almaty and as a Romanian citinzen I needed the LOI to get the visa. Caravanistan was the best solution since they provided it in 7 working days and I could get the visa in one hour. I had no problems in Uzbekistan neither.
They are very serious and efficient.
As a British citizen living in Hong Kong, it was difficult for me to obtain a visa for Uzbekistan before my trip. Caravanistan provided the most effective solution with an LOI to pick up my visa on arrival at Tashkent Airport. The service was smooth and efficient, my LOI was ready on time, and I had no problem in entering Uzbekistan.
Did LOI through here. Really good and quic . Took about 7-8daysnfor the LOI to arrive. .
I put the wrong dates though but it was no problem changing this at the embassy in Ankara.
Thanks again!
Perfect! Thanks! They accept paypal payments, awesome.
I´m very thanks full to all the efficient and professional help I got from Ms Munira Mushabayeva at Caravanistan. I got the LOI in a week and when I reached Baku on my bicycle I applied and picked up the visa the same day no problem at all.
Wonderful, thank you very much!
Lena
Friendly and effective service. Saves you a lot of hassle.
Munira got in touch with me very quickly after I filled out the form on this site. She answered all my questions promptly and seemed very patient in her explaining. Once I submitted my payment and documents, getting my LOI took about ten days. Quick, easy, painless. Highly recommended.
As it was my first time to Uzbekistan, I didn’t know which travel-organization I could trust to actually get my LOI (I thought some travel-agencies could be scammers). So after some URL checking I got to Caravanistan, which according to the url checker (http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/caravanistan.com) was very reliable.
Aliya, who was my contact at this firm, was very helpful and responsive. So I also arranged a tour with her.
I got the LOI within seven days and got my VISA the same day when I went to the embassy in Brussels.
So, would I have them arrange my LOI again when I would visit Uzbekistan once again? Definitely!
As a matter of fact: I would probably have them arrange my hotel too. (This time I booked with booking.com, but there are much more hotels in Tashkent that are not mentioned in Booking.com).
Obtaining visas for travelling in this area has been difficult. Obtaining LOI from your site has been very efficient and the travel agency I worked with was very helpful. Terrific!!!
Very Good Service, accurate and quick.
Got in contact with Saule at Caravanistan in regards to obtaining a LOI. He put us in touch with the lovely Aliya at Uzbek Travel. She was always quick to respond to emails as was Saule and answered all of my questions. They had our LOI processed and back in 7 days when everyone else said it would take at least 10. Great service and very knowledgeable!
Being a Hungarian citizen, I needed a Loi. (One weeks’s visit to Uzbekistan, obtaining visa at airport)
I contacted Ms Munira Mushabayeva at Caravanistan, after sending her the documentations she needed, I got the telex affirmation in about 10 days (as an email attachment, pdf format) Since I travelled in the low season (end of July-beginning of August) there was practically no waiting time for the visa, I got through in about 20 mins! The price of a tourist visa for 7 days was $50.
I would like to thank Ms Mushabayeva for her kind help, the service was great and quick! Thank you Caravanistan, I’ll recommend you to other travellers to the region.
Romanian Passport holder asking for urgent LOI to be telexed to the Uzbek Embassy in Athens (train & boat trip from Paris to Kyoto).
Transportation bookings not necessary for trains (because impossible to do online if traveling by land), and reservations (=bookings, but free) of flights can be done through Qatar Airways or some other sites. Use Booking dot com for free reservations of hotels and double check with agency.
Applied through caravanistan.com on 6th of July, first contact by agency on 7th, payment submitted and confirmed by agency on 8th (only in Pounds, but possible through PayPal, so automatic conversion), LOI copy mailed to me on the 18th, the day right before I would go to the embassy.
The embassy in Athens works only Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, approx from 9 to 1 and from 3 to 6 I believe.
No queue, and they knew that I would be coming (since Telex is mailed to embassy as well) but since I was missing some documents, closest Internet point with printer is close to Panormou Metro Station.
Payment is due at a bank some 20′ walking away in dollars, they don’t accept cards but they have ATMs, queue there was over 30′ on Friday morning though.
Once all documents and papers ready, went back to the embassy and everything was processed same day on the spot right in front of me within 10′, handshake, enjoy your stay in Uzbekistan.
I was allowed by the embassy official to change the dates of my stay to something different than what I originally told the agency to mark in my LOI.
I obtained a letter of invitation for Uzbekistan within eight days through Caravanistan.
The Caravanistan Website refered me to Aliya in Tashkent for LOI . I dealt with the Director her name was Ms.Munira Musabayeva. She answered all my questions /inquries. Prompt about getting a LOI for the tourist visa. This was back in January 2014. received my LOI after forwarding my info.payment around a week later. It was sent by email attachment.I notice conflictions of whether or not U.S. Citizens need LOI . I read on this website that U.S. Citizens don’t need A LOI, either this is new information or it is like a Lonely Planet Guidebook……outdated.
I have consulted with Munira now. She explained that it was a rule from MFA to require LOI from US citizens until February 2014. From February onwards they don’t require a LOI from US citizens if they apply for visa in their home country.
In certain cases Uzbek consulates in US might still require a LOI, when they find that documents or information is suspicious.
Hello,
I applied for the letter of invitation while travelling through Turkey as I was warned that getting it might take several weeks as I planned to pick it up in Teheran. It took around a week and at the embassy in Teheran picking up the visa took around 10 or 15 minutes, in comparison with around a week if one didn’t have a letter of invitation.
One thing which should be noted is that before going to the embassy one should fill out this form and make one copy of it http://evisa.mfa.uz/evisa_en/ . Also the Uzbekistan embassy in Teheran wasn’t necesarly easy to find, the exact location isn’t where google maps says it is (https://www.google.ro/maps/search/uzbekistan+consulate+Teheran/@35.8067363,51.4725139,16z?hl=en ). Basically from the marked location one should head eastwards on the Boostan and turn right on the T shaped alley shown on the map.
Also if one has forgotten to print the e-visa there is an internet cafe sort of thing on Boostan (after the sweedish embassy) where it can be printed.
Also at the consulate it makes sense to get there either very early or a bit late, theoretically they work until 11 but I think no one is left at the gate, I got my visa at around 12:30 and there where still people waiting. If you get there really early (around 7 o’clock one might get his name high on a list which is scribbled by the guard at the gate).
The visa support was very efficient and all done very fast. First contact made on a Monday, payment on a Tuesday – visa letter was ready by the following Tuesday and I got my visa in Dushanbe within half an hour with no hassles. Certainly one of the easiest visas in the end.