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Kazakhstan Business Visa
Has anyone applied for a Kazakhstan Business visa?
If so, how did you fulfill the following (taken from HERE)...
" In addition, a cover letter from the applicant’s company, briefly summarizing the purpose of the visit and including some information about the company or organization should be attached".
I can claim to be self-employed but making up an acceptable story will be difficult. The last thing I want is for my application to be refused as that would screw my plans completely!
Any help/advice and better still EXPERIENCE would be much appreciated.
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Sorry to ask dumb questions - how come you need a business visa instead of tourist one?
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Why....
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Sorry to ask dumb questions - how come you need a business visa instead of tourist one?
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Time. As far as I'm aware the longest tourist visa is Triple Entry/90 days.
My route will take me through Kazakhstan four times over a six month period this year and a fifth, possibly sixth time in March 2014. I will be leaving my bike in Kyrgyzstan over the winter and flying in/out of Almaty.
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Never got a kazakh business visa, but in my experience, a letter on company letterhead (can be a mates company) saying that you want to travel to Kazakhstan to explore business opportunities and avenues for co-operation between [your company] and Kazakh companies, is usually enough for that sort of thing.
If you have any friend with a company, its ideal. Its completely non committal.
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Depending on your time frame, look into the tourist one and then afterwards getting a new tourist one. Not ideal, but as said, depending on your itinerary and timing, it might me easier and cheaper than a business one...
I'm in the process myself for the Russian business one as I will also need to enter and exit 4 times in approx. 4-5 months window. Encountered the same issues as you described but found a company (here in Belgium) that can assist. Just waiting to get an accurate quote at the moment...
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Worth the effort
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Originally Posted by colebatch
Never got a kazakh business visa, but in my experience, a letter on company letterhead (can be a mates company) saying that you want to travel to Kazakhstan to explore business opportunities and avenues for co-operation between [your company] and Kazakh companies, is usually enough for that sort of thing.
If you have any friend with a company, its ideal. Its completely non committal.
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Thanks Walter. I'll have to put some thought into the 'who' part of that but I like the idea.
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Depending on your time frame, look into the tourist one and then afterwards getting a new tourist one. Not ideal, but as said, depending on your itinerary and timing, it might me easier and cheaper than a business one...
I'm in the process myself for the Russian business one as I will also need to enter and exit 4 times in approx. 4-5 months window. Encountered the same issues as you described but found a company (here in Belgium) that can assist. Just waiting to get an accurate quote at the moment...
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I'd need three visa's to cover the time periods. A little more hassle before I leave home is preferable to two more applications on the road. That's ten days processing time plus the associated costs of staying in a big city whilst waiting. Not to mention ten days I'd rather be elsewhere.
The Business visa looks expensive but all things considered I think it will work out cheaper.
I too have applied for a 12 month Russian Business visa. The difference is there's a 'template' for the Russian letter.
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How it panned out...
Not many replies but a few hundred views so here's what happened...
Having also applied for a 12 month Russian business visa I used that supporting letter 'template' and introduced a paragraph based on Colebatch's suggested wording.
With the help of Google images I 'borrowed' a logo suitable to my business and modified it in iPhoto. I then combined the two in word, chose a suitable font to finish off the letterhead and printed out my letter.
I made my application in person at the Kazakh embassy in London (opposite Victoria & Albert Museum with m/c parking right outside) and collected my visa 1 week later.
My LOI was supplied by Stantours.
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Thanks very much for following up JM. ![Thumbup1](https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/images/smilies/thumbup1.gif)
Its very useful for the forum when people take advice, they follow up with how useful the advice was, how they applied the advice, did it work etc.
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