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SW. experts, what's with the visas to Egypt? Who will be issued at the airport?
And who needs to preform? And what is now considered a group of tourists - the whole flight or those who go to one hotel on specific dates? Thanks.
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So far, no official explanation has been received. Everything is news level. Waiting.
I do not think that there will be any fundamental difficulties. Samtourists will receive at the consulate. This can be done even now. And operators will issue visa stamps with tours. Once upon a time they offered such services themselves.
Most likely canceled or rescheduled. Or they will introduce an e-visa. Like Sri Lanka and India.
I do not think that there will be any fundamental difficulties. Samtourists will receive at the consulate. This can be done even now. And operators will issue visa stamps with tours. Once upon a time they offered such services themselves.
Most likely canceled or rescheduled. Or they will introduce an e-visa. Like Sri Lanka and India.
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answered 10 years ago
Yes, today "Details" was taken aback that this is from March 15 ?! The question is, how will samtourists and non-samtourists be determined? If a couple flies one of the planes to their hotel - are they self-tourists or are they considered a group with an airplane? :) A visa with a tour was very, very convenient. But now from home to determine and write on the card about Sinai only or will it sink into oblivion? Something from all this does not come up that they want to tighten their entry into the country ...
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answered 10 years ago
I asked the embassy, so far nothing has been finally decided on this matter, it seems like they are going to accept such an innovation, but not from March 15, but from May 15, and this will concern only individuals and business visitors. Foreigners who visit the country as part of a group and through travel agencies will obtain tourist group visas at the ports of entry to Egypt. Nothing is known about Sinai only yet.
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answered 10 years ago
Well, let's hope that simple tourists will not complicate anything :)
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answered 10 years ago
From May 15, not March. Until May, the picture will change 100 times more. Representatives of the Egyptian tourist industry have already expressed their opinion about this innovation. They already tried to arrange a similar one with visas in 2011, it lasted for several days and again returned to the good old stamps.
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answered 10 years ago
While still not clear, rumors, and nothing more. Sinai only will hopefully live for a long time, because it was essentially originally made to attract tourists.
All these issues just need to be monitored, although the visa was raised for a long time, I think it will be the same story, until nothing concrete has been announced, while rumors are spreading and they are watching the reaction. IMHO
All these issues just need to be monitored, although the visa was raised for a long time, I think it will be the same story, until nothing concrete has been announced, while rumors are spreading and they are watching the reaction. IMHO
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answered 10 years ago
By the way, dip. missions strongly resist this, justifying this by the fact that there are not enough of them to serve all free tourists, it is planned to open an Internet portal for opening visas, but that's all for now................. blah blah blah.
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answered 10 years ago
I understand that the concept of "free tourists" refers to those tourists who enter the country on their own, not on a package tour and alone. Or not?
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answered 10 years ago
Attention! From January 15, 2015 to April 30, 2015, the entry visa to Egypt for citizens of the Russian Federation has been cancelled. Russian passport holders will only be given a free arrival stamp, which is equivalent to a tourist visa.
Such TezTour information is here:
http://www.tez-tour.com/visa.html?countryId=5732
Such TezTour information is here:
http://www.tez-tour.com/visa.html?countryId=5732
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answered 10 years ago
From May 15, 2015, individual tourists will have to obtain a visa from embassies and consulates in their country before traveling to Egypt, and not at the airport upon arrival, according to an official statement from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
That is, visas will no longer be offered at the airports of Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada or Taba, the Egyptian embassy in Kyiv explained. The stands that now stand there will simply be removed.
Now a visa at the airport costs $25, and it is not yet known whether its price will be revised.
However, the innovation with obtaining visas at embassies applies only to people traveling on their own - without the help of travel agencies.
“Individual tourists must obtain visas for tourism purposes at Egyptian diplomatic missions in advance, before arriving in Egypt. Organized groups of tourists will be the only exception to which the new rules may not apply,” the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Here:
http://news.finance.ua/ru/news/~/346832
As I understand it, if you bought a tour and flew in a crowd on a charter, then everything will be as usual?
How will they sort?
Is it really based on questionnaires that no one reads, but simply thrown into a pile?
That is, visas will no longer be offered at the airports of Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada or Taba, the Egyptian embassy in Kyiv explained. The stands that now stand there will simply be removed.
Now a visa at the airport costs $25, and it is not yet known whether its price will be revised.
However, the innovation with obtaining visas at embassies applies only to people traveling on their own - without the help of travel agencies.
“Individual tourists must obtain visas for tourism purposes at Egyptian diplomatic missions in advance, before arriving in Egypt. Organized groups of tourists will be the only exception to which the new rules may not apply,” the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Here:
http://news.finance.ua/ru/news/~/346832
As I understand it, if you bought a tour and flew in a crowd on a charter, then everything will be as usual?
How will they sort?
Is it really based on questionnaires that no one reads, but simply thrown into a pile?
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answered 10 years ago
Here are the details about visas:
http://nuzhnaviza.ru/afrika/egipet/
http://nuzhnaviza.ru/afrika/egipet/
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answered 10 years ago
Matveyka you write "no one reads", in fact they only look at one stamp of the receiving party on the migration card. If there is no such stamp, then you already need a visa.
No one will touch the "Packets", but independent tourists will have to take care of a visa.
To be honest, I don’t think that they will introduce anything this time, this whole mess has been dragging on since 2011 and things are still there ..............
Let's see what it will be ..... closer to the date "X"
No one will touch the "Packets", but independent tourists will have to take care of a visa.
To be honest, I don’t think that they will introduce anything this time, this whole mess has been dragging on since 2011 and things are still there ..............
Let's see what it will be ..... closer to the date "X"
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answered 10 years ago
The fact of the matter is that only "bags" on the idea of innovation will be able to get shinai only.
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answered 10 years ago
In theory, it is easy to distinguish an individual tourist from a group one, but only representatives of the host side of our tour operators (TezTour, Pegasus, Biblioglobus, etc.) can do this. They meet their tourists at the airport even before crossing the border. Each arrival is required to fill out a migration card, which he learns from a representative of the tour operator in exchange for a voucher. Vouchers are available only for group tourists who have bought a package tour at a travel agency. That's all: no voucher - no migration card. And without this, you won’t get a visa on arrival, you won’t get the “Sinai Only” stamp, and you won’t pass the border at all. I don’t even know how single tourists receive migration cards now, but apparently they have such an opportunity.
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answered 10 years ago
At the airport there are cards but without a stamp of operators, in the public domain. And already on filling the border guard decides to let it in or not. There are a number of countries who are given a "green" corridor. With the introduction of a mandatory visa, this corridor will be blocked.
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answered 10 years ago
Current INTO was in Hurghada. The stamp is placed. As in Sharm. For nothing. For those with a package tour, of course.
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answered 10 years ago
"I don't even know how single tourists get migration cards now, but apparently they have such an opportunity."
I begged for a card for a fool in 2013.
I told the Aneks guide that I was Aneks and he gave me a map. True, then Sharm was.
I begged for a card for a fool in 2013.
I told the Aneks guide that I was Aneks and he gave me a map. True, then Sharm was.
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answered 10 years ago