Visas

Most visitors to Mongolia require a visa. When you choose to travel with Nomadic Journeys you will have no problem getting one. American citizens no longer require a visa.

Make sure your passport is valid at least 6 months from the date of arrival in Mongolia.

One (1) passport size photography is required for issuing a visa. Visas are issued at the Mongolian Embassy, Consulate or Honorary Consulate in your country. Please consult us for such addresses.

The normal procedure is that you will be given a month entry/exit tourist visa. Nomadic Journeys may need to issue an official visa invitation letter in order to process visas for longer stays or for citizens of particular countries. Please enquire at the Mongolian embassy or consulate of your choice. If a visa invitation is necessary, we will need your passport details such as full name, date of birth, nationality and passport number incl. expiry date of the passport.

Visas are available upon arrival at Ulaanbaatar airport for citizens of countries, which have no Mongolian embassy or honorary consul. In such a case we need to extend an official visa invitation to you, for which we need your full passport details as above. The charge for this is considered "Express Service" and until now this service have costed USD 50.

We then need to extend a visa invitation for you, for which we need your full name and passport details. If boarding your flight to Ulaanbaatar in Berlin, Osaka, Moscow, Irkutsk, Höh Hot, Seoul or Beijing, which are on-line airports, there is not a problem with procedures. However, if you board your plane and check luggage through from another airport, you may be asked by check-in staff - so prompted by their computer systems - to produce a Mongolian visa or a visa invitation from Nomadic Journeys. This phraseology however can present itself with a problem for you. Hence, if you intend to get your visa issued on arrival in Ulaanbaatar, please consult with us carefully.

If you combine a program in Mongolia with Russia or China, visas are needed for these countries as well. A Russian visa is not required for transit passengers at Moscow airport, but you will have to remain in the transit hall. Chinese visas are issued with efficiency (open Mon, Wed & Fri only) in Ulaanbaatar. Make sure that you have a double entry Chinese visa if you travel through Beijing both ways. Also remember, that when in China and you exit out to Hong Kong and back into China, it is considered as you have left China! If traveling to Mongolia on the same trip you may need a multiple entry visa to China. Moreover, American and British citizens require a visa to transit Beijing airport, whereas Swedish nationals may transit without a visa. Please consult in your home country carefully, what is required for you.

Russian visas are available in Ulaanbaatar, but we recommend that you obtain your Russian visas in your country of residence, due to problems here in the past.

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