What the Kazakhstan visa rules mean for India travellers
India citizens can enter Kazakhstan without a visa and stay for up to 14 days. You only need a valid India passport at the border; immigration officers may still ask for a return or onward ticket, proof of accommodation and enough money for your stay. The 14-day limit usually counts calendar days from your arrival, so book your return flight inside that window.
The main option is the Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA), not mandatory during the pilot period.
Documents to prepare
Whatever your visa status, Kazakhstan applies the same entry conditions to every traveller:
- Passport validity: The UK government says your passport must be valid for at least 30 days from the date you arrive in Kazakhstan and have at least one blank page, and that if you have a visa for Kazakhstan your passport must have an expi…
- Vaccinations: Yellow fever: WHO lists Kazakhstan as requiring proof of yellow fever vaccination from travellers arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission, including travellers who transited through the airport of such a countr…
- Travel insurance: No official source we could read states whether travel insurance is required to enter Kazakhstan. The UK Foreign Office says the medical facilities in Kazakhstan are not as advanced as in the UK and tells travellers to …
- Return or onward ticket: No official source we could read states whether an onward or return ticket is required to enter Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan entry rules compared
Kazakhstan lets 87 passports in without a visa, offers a visa on arrival to 1, issues eVisas to 94 and requires an embassy visa from 16. India citizens are treated the same way as Bahrain, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Iran. Overall the India passport ranks #152 in the world with 27 visa-free destinations.
More travel options
Planning a longer trip in Asia? With a India passport you can also visit 6 countries in the region without a visa, including Macau, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Qatar and Thailand.
In the other direction, Kazakhstan citizens need evisa to visit India.