Visa to Egypt

A visa to Egypt for Russian citizens is issued upon arrival at the airport. A guest visa to Egypt can be obtained at any point while crossing the border. Previously, this document is issued at the consular departments of the Egyptian Embassy in Moscow.

The procedure for issuing a visa upon arrival in Egypt is quite simple and does not take much time. A visa sticker with a value of 15 dollars is pasted into the foreign passport of the tourist. When entering the country with a child entered in the passport, the visa is not paid for it. If the child has his own passport, he also needs a sticker worth $ 15.

Tourist visa to Egypt upon arrival is issued for thirty days from the date of entry into the country. If you need to extend the visa for another 30 days, you can extend it at the office of the travel company at your place of stay.

On a tourist visa Ukrainian, Russian, Baltic and Belarusian citizens can stay in Egypt for a maximum of 2 months.

According to Egyptian law, a penalty of $ 17 is set for staying in the country after the expiry of the visa period. The penalty is paid during the flight home.

In this case, persons with an expired visa can not fly on flights from the airports of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada. Return home they can only on a scheduled flight from Cairo airport.

A visa to Egypt at the airport or border land crossings is issued subject to the following documents:

1. A foreign passport with a validity period of not less than six months from the date of arrival in the country.
2. Visa card of an immigrant, filled in English.
3. Confirmation of the booked room in the hotel of Egypt or invitation from the host party (optional).

If you are talking about whether you need a visa to Egypt for Russians when you re-enter the country, it is required, and you can receive it also upon arrival in Egypt. During the week, foreigners arriving in Egypt must put a mark in the passport in the police department. This formality is easily settled in hotels, they provide such a service for their guests.

The Sinai visa is issued to tourists free of charge upon arrival in South Sinai. The period of its validity is 15 days. Such a visa can be obtained at the airport of Sharm el-Sheikh, on the border with Israel - the Taba checkpoint and in Nuweiba - the seaport. It is worth noting that a tourist who arrives in the country from Israel receives only a Sinai visa, but if a trip is planned to deep into Egypt, it is necessary to pre-arrange an Egyptian visa at the embassy.

To obtain a Sinai visa, you should inform about it upon arrival in the country. However, the owners of such visas do not have the right to travel beyond the borders of South Sinai. South Sinai begins from the coast of Sharm el-Sheikh to Taba and encompasses Mount Moses and the Santa Catarina Monastery.

A visa to Egypt for citizens of Kazakhstan, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Moldova and Uzbekistan is issued at the consulate of Egypt. Upon arrival, a visa is not issued. In addition, citizens of Uzbekistan and Belarus must have in their passports a stamp of the Ministry of Internal Affairs permitting travel abroad.