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

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. Nor do Israeli and Singaporean passport holders.

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. If you do not have such a possibility in your country you may ask us to provide a letter to the airport immigration in Ulaanbaatar for a visa issued for you on arrival in Mongolia. Please consult us for such addresses.

Normally you will be issued a one-month entry/exit tourist visa.

Nomadic Journeys may need to issue an official visa invitation letter for longer stays or for  issuance of visas in a few 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 also upon arrival at Ulaanbaatar airport for citizens of countries which have no Mongolian embassy or honorary consul. In such a case we also need to extend an official visa invitation to you, for which we need your full passport details as above. The charge for having the visa issued on arrival is considered the same as for “Express Service”. Until now this service has been USD 50 in cash on arrival.

For a visa invitation we need your full name and passport details. If boarding your flight to Ulaanbaatar in Berlin, Tokyo, Moscow, Irkutsk, Höh Hot, Seoul or Beijing, which are on-line airports, there is not a problem with checking in without a visa. 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. 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 to us 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, British citizens may require a visa to transit Beijing airport, whereas most other 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.