Egypt Travel Visa

Visitors who come to Egypt to enjoy its beautiful attractions by spending some time touring around its incredible highlights but first, they must obtain an Egypt travel visa either upon their arrival at the domestic airports or from their countries based on their nationalities. Visa is divided into three sections, including the Visa-free, the Arrival Visa, as well as the Electronic Visa, or the E-visa!

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Countries Are Allowed to Have A Free Visa to Egypt

Egypt allows a number of countries to relish in its marine, entertainment, and historical fortune with free visas, including the following:

Bahrain	Kuwait	Oman
Macao	Saudi Arabia	The United Arab Emirates
Lebanon: at Borg El Arab Airport, Hurghada Airport, or Sharm El-sheik Airport if you arrive on a charter flight.

There are also some other countries that give free visas to travel to Egypt under certain conditions and here are the names & conditions of each country:

Country	Conditions
Afghanistan	for people aged 50 years and above or 16 years and below.
Algeria	provides for people aged 14 years and below.
China	offers holding a return/onward ticket, plus a hotel reservation confirmation in a 4 or 5* rating hotel, and an equivalent sum of USD 2000.
Libya	offers free visas for being a female national or for residents of Butnan District on Sundays and Mondays.
Jordan	offers for people holding a normal 5 – year passport.
Lebanon	you can have free visas if you are aged 50 years and above or 16 years and below.
Morocco	you can have free visas if you are aged 14 years and below.
Sudan	you can have free visas if you are aged 50 years and above or 16 years and below or even for being a female national.
South Sudan	if you are 50 years and above or 16 years and below or being a female national.
Tunisia	offers free visas if you are 14 years and below.
Yemen	offers free visas if you are 50 years and above or 16 years & below or even for traveling for medical reasons.
Jordan	offers for people holding a normal 5 – year passport or there’s no trace for the Registration Office in Jordan’s stamp on page 60 of your passport; the passport’s revered cover side!

Ps: Note that sons & daughters born to an Egyptian father {except for those who are from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Qatar} or an Egyptian mother after July 2004 {except for those who are from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Qatar}, and also the wives of Egyptian nationals, aren’t required to obtain a visa to be able to travel to Egypt and they are free to enter Egypt any time they want.

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The Single-Entry in Comparison to the Multiple-Entry Tourist Visa

The Single-Entry and the Multiple-Entry are two kinds of visas that Egypt owns and the travelers need to have on them as permission to explore Egypt, legally! Hence there’s for sure a remarkable difference in them illustrated as the following:

- The Single-Entry Visa

It’s another type of visa that makes travelers win the chance to stroll Egypt for intentions that only relate to tourism for 30 days! It comes at 25 dollars. The e-visa in this case is just a one-time usage, and in case you wanted to enter Egypt again, you need to obtain a new valid one!

- The Multiple-Entry Visa

It’s a category of visas that comes with more merits than one could have thought. It introduces the traveler to multiple reasons of an entrance, not just a tourism purpose, for more than 6 months, through national borders, which gives them access to extend their stay or vacation to thirty days for every entrance with due time ending after the decided period and a price ay sixty dollars!

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Obtaining Egypt Visa Upon Arrival

You can obtain your Visa upon your arrival at the airport. As there are more than 180 nationalities that can have it if following the upcoming conditions:

Being one of the eligible countries is a must.
That passport must come with 6-month validation.
Stick to the decided fee for the visa; 25$ USD at Egypt Airport with no other possibility for payment other than cash.
Also, it’s safe for the eligible countries to pay for the fee with Euros, US dollars, or British Pounds is another possibility as well.
It’s highly recommended that, as soon as you go through the currency exchange, it’s better to arrive at your chosen Egyptian entry at the same time to avoid the waste of time!

And the following are some countries that can obtain the visa upon arrival according to the previously-mentioned conditions:

Citizens of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal can get into Egypt with a national ID card and they must bring a passport photo to be affixed to the visa.

Citizens of Turkey can obtain a visa on arrival if provided documents prove that they are aged 45 years and above or 18 years and below or have a residence permit.
Citizens of Sudan can obtain a visa on arrival for a maximum stay of 30 days.

Further, solo first-time visitors including South Africa, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan are provided with the emergence visa at any of Egypt’s ports if they hold an entry visa to New Zealand, Canada, Japan, the UK, the US, and the Schengen countries!

P/S: The mechanism of obtaining an Egypt visa for the United States citizens or their arrival is not that different from the holders of the EU passport or the variety of other eligible counties’ nationals! Hence, what differentiates the nationals of some EU states, including Germany, France, Belgium, Portugal, and Italy is the ability to opt for their national ID card rather than their official passport!

Visa on Arrival International Entry Points

Cairo International Airport, Cairo.
Hurghada International Airport, Hurghada!
St Catherine International Airport, St Catherina.
Borg El Arab International Airport, Alexandria.
Sharm El Sheikh International Airport.
Luxor Airport International Airport.

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Countries necessary to Have Egypt Visa Before coming to Egypt

The nationalities of the following countries need to apply for a visa via “The Egyptian Consulate" prior to travel Egypt:

Armenia	Azerbaijan	Afghanistan	Algeria	Angola
Bangladesh	Barbados	Belarus	Belize	Botswana
Bosnia and Herzegovina		Burkina Faso	Burundi	Cameroon
The Central African Republic		Moldova	Mongolia	Montenegro
Morocco	Sudan	Swaziland	Syria	Qatar
Tajikistan	Tanzania	Thailand	Togo	Tunisia
Turkey (except for those who are below 18 and above 45 years old)				Turkmenistan
Uganda	Mozambique	Myanmar	Namibia	Nicaragua
Niger	Nigeria	Pakistan	Palestine	Philippines
Sierra	Leone	Somalia	South Africa	Sri Lanka
St. Vincent and the Grenadines		Gambia	Ghana	Guinea-Bissau
Honduras	India	Indonesia	Iran	Iraq
Israel	Kenya	DPR Korea	R Kosovo	Uzbekistan
Vietnam	Zambia	Zimbabwe	Chad	Cape Verde
Comoros	R Congo	DR Congo	Côte d’Ivoire	DjiboutiEl
Salvador	Equatorial	Guinea	Eritrea	Ethiopia
Guatemala	Gabon	Kyrgyzstan	Lebanon (except Alexandria and South Sinai)
Lesotho	Liberia	Madagascar	Malawi	Malaysia
Mali	Mauritania	Mauritius

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Egypt Electronic Visa

Tourists & visitors who come to Egypt can now apply for an online visa from their homes without any need to head to the Egyptian embassy at their homes and without having a lot of appointments. The online Egypt visa program is very helpful and will not only accelerate the process for visa applications prior to traveling but also improve the system of customs and border control upon arrival in Egypt.

An Electronic Visa or e-visa is within hand reach for any traveler to apply for it online for a multiple-entry visa or single-entry visa!

Hence, the Single-entry Visa is valid only for a 6-month period and a thirty-day stay, max, in the country!

The Multiple-entry Visa is valid for a three-month stay for multiple entries, which gives the travelers the access to leave and be back to explore Egypt to their heart’s content in only thirty days

Nationals of the countries listed here may be issued with an E-Visa upon application on the Egypt E-Visa Portal, including:

Czech	Canada	Croatia	Ecuador	Georgia
Hungary	Cyprus	Estonia	Denmark	Finland France
Germany	Greece	Hong Kong	Iceland	Ireland
Italy	Kuwait	Macedonia	Latvia	Lithuania
Malta	Oman	Paraguay	Peru	Qatar
Norway	Poland	Romania	Serbia	Portugal
Sweden Switzerland	United States	Ukraine	Uruguay	United Arab Emirates
Vatican	Armenia	Australia	Azerbaijan	Bahrain
Belarus	Albania	Austria	Belgium	Bulgaria
Colombia Bolivia	Bosnia And Herzegovina		Brazil	Chile
Luxembourg	Mexico	Netherlands	Monaco	Moldova
New Zealand	Montenegro	Russian	Federation	San Marino
Republic of Kosovo	Saudi Arabia	Slovakia	Slovenia	Spain
Venezuela	United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales)

P/S: There are still other nationalities that need to obtain a free travel visa from their countries a few days prior including the following:

East Asian countries, such as:

China	Hong Kong	Japan
Macau	Mongolia	North Korea
South Kore	Taiwan

West African countries, such as:

Benin	Burkina Faso	Cape Verde	Côte D'Ivoire
Gambia	Ghana	Guinea	Guinea-Bissau
Liberia	Mali	Mauritania	Niger
Nigeria	Senegal	Sierra Leone	Togo

The Egyptian E-visa Requirements are:

You need to make sure of having a minimum-8-month-valid passport on you starting for you’re the date of your arrival in the country!
Make sure the application form is filled seamlessly and flawlessly, with no possible mistakes or typos!
The inevitability of paying for the e-visa fees with a debit or a credit card!
Upload a scan of your passport’s main passport!
Make sure to have a replica of your e-visa to hand it in, upon your arrival at the Egyptian border!
The process will take five-day business, so you need to take action and apply for it a week or so prior to your wanted stay in Egypt!

Visit the Egypt e-Visa Online site so that you can easily apply for an online e-visa. However, you can still contact us if something went wrong, never mind having a look at the holiday passages we offer from Hurghada and the Red Sea!

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Transit Visa for Egypt

A Transit Visa is another kind of visa that help the travel with the process of traveling through a country!

Why is Transit Visa Necessary

A transit visa is a type of visa that allows the traveler to transfer to another destination. Nonetheless, the visa comes with an expiration date, thus the traveler will be running out of time if they wouldn’t catch their flights as soon as possible to their target destination!

Further, an Egyptian Transit Visa is needed in case the traveler would travel through Egypt to another destination legally!

Countries Permitted to Travel Through Egypt without a Visa

Bahrain	Hong Kong	Kuwait
Lebanon	Macao	Oman
Saudi Arabia	UAE	Malaysia

More Details about the Egypt Transit Visa

A passport issued by an eligible country that has yet expired yet
A valid onward ticket is a validation of the traveler’s travel intentions!
Travelers can always travel through Egypt without a Transit Visa within 48 hours!
Eligible countries’ people are permitted to explore their surroundings far from the airport in case the time gap between their flights is between 6 and 84 hours prior to the launch, otherwise, they’re bound to their flight’s time of launch!

Finally, if you’re facing any problem or need some guidance in illustrating more details, we pass you our Tours from Hurghada where we dedicated all our history to serving and assisting people from different spots on Earth. Not to mention the Red Sea and Hurghada Excursions that we have stood out for since 2004 between the travelers!

Passports Don't Require a Visa for Egypt

Country	Passports Don't Require Egypt Visa
Algeria	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Argentina	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Armenia	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Austria	Diplomatic, and Service Passports
Belarus	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Bolivia	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Diplomatic Password
Brazil	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Chile	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
China	Diplomatic, and Service Passports
Croatia	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Cuba	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Cyprus	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Czech Republic	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Denmark	Diplomatic, and Service Passports
Ecuador	Diplomatic, Official, and Special Passports
Gabon	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Georgia	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Greece	Diplomatic, and Service Passports
Guinea	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Hungary	Diplomatic Password
India	Diplomatic, and Official Passports
Italy	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Jordan	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Kazakhstan	Diplomatic Password
Libya	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Macedonia	Diplomatic, Official, and Special Passports
Malaysia	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Montenegro	Diplomatic Password
Morocco	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Pakistan	Diplomatic Password
Palestine	Diplomatic Password
Paraguay	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Peru	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Philippines	Diplomatic Passports
Portugal	Diplomatic, and Special Passports
Russia	Diplomatic, and Service Passports
Serbia	Diplomatic Password
Slovakia	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Slovenia	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
South Africa	Diplomatic, and Official Passports
South Korea	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Spain	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Sudan	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Tunisia	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Turkey	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Ukraine	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Uruguay	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Vietnam	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports
Yemen	Diplomatic, Official, Service, and Special Passports

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Authorized Visa Required

The following countries according to the Egyptian Consulate General in the United Kingdom must apply for a visa in person and a visa approval must try to get them from the competent Authorities in Egypt. This process takes several weeks to process:

Kosovo	Lebanon	Liberia	Mali
Mauritania	Moldova	Morocco	Myanmar
Niger	Nigeria	Tunisia	Pakistan
Palestine	Philippines	Rwanda	Sierra Leone
Somalia	Afghanistan	Algeria	Bangladesh
Burundi	Chad	Comoros	Djibouti
Eritrea	Ethiopia	Ghana	Indonesia
Iran	Iraq	Israel

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State Security Approval

The Citizens who live in the following countries need prior approval from the Egyptian State Security besides holding a visa:

Iran	Iraq	Kazakhstan	Kosovo	Lebanon
Mauritania	Somalia	Sri Lanka	Syria	Yemen

This is also applied to maids who are from the following countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Philippine, and Thailand. In addition to citizens of Belize of Lebanese origin, of Bosnia and Herzegovina of Egyptian origin, of Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia if they require a visa. That is not all as this is also applied upon China if their visa was issued outside China, of Sudan if they are residing outside Sudan, female citizens of Moldova aged between 15 and 35. Male citizens of Palestine face the same (and those holding a Jordanian passport with a stamp from the Jordanian Registration Office) Libya who require a visa.

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Hurghada Holiday Packages

If you plan a holiday in Hurghada and wanna enjoy everything Egypt has to offer with a seamless blend of the sea atmosphere and the historical art of the ancient Pharaohs in Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan you will find our Hurghada holiday packages contain what you need.