The new policy allows U.S. travelers to stay for up to 30 days and explore Silk Road cities like Samarkand and Bukhara.

The ancient city of Bukhara is a top tourism draw in Uzbekistan. Photo Credit: G Adventures Americans can begin traveling to Uzbekistan without a visa on Jan. 1. The Central Asia country is allowing ...

Uzbekistan has performed a shock about-face on its tourist visa policy by cancelling plans to allow citizens of 27 countries to travel to the country visa-free as of April. A document posted on the ...

Speaking in a meeting with Aziz Abdukhakimov, the Uzbek Minister of Ecology, Environmental Protection, and Climate Change, Zarghami signaled that Iran welcomes arranging a visa waiver deal between the ...

Uzbekistan has introduced visa-free travel for citizens from 27 countries. Uzbekistan's President-elect Shavkat Mirziyaev signed a decree on December 6, according to which citizens of Australia, ...

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have reached a deal to scrap visa requirements for their citizens to visit one another’s countries for stays of up to one month. In another signal of warming ties between the ...

Russian visits to the Uzbek capital of Tashkent are in high demand, travel agencies say, since they started offering "debit-card" tours with the aim of obtaining Mastercard and VISA cards from Uzbek ...

Uzbekistan is declining Afghan visa requests and its Foreign Ministry warns that illegal border crossings will be "harshly suppressed" as thousands seek to escape following the Taliban's takeover in ...

It was one of the earliest, and most exciting, reforms announced: Uzbekistan was going to throw open the doors and toss out onerous visa procedures for a litany of countries. But a month after ...

The grand opening continues in Uzbekistan with the granting of visa-free access, for up to 30 days, as of February 1 for travelers from 45 countries. The visa-free expansion was announced on January 5 ...

Uzbekistan's new president has called for the abolition of restrictive, Soviet-era laws on overseas travel, provoking questions about how open the country will be under his rule. President Shavkat ...