CentreKurort Center for Sanatorium and Resort Services with the Administrative Department of the President of the Republic of Belarus is glad to offer you the most convenient way to issue a Belarusian entry visa to the Republic of Belarus.

You’ll have to send us a request for a visa support at our e-mail welcome@otpusk.by or by fax (375) 17 200 60 27, where you indicate the following information:

• surname and name;
• date of birth;
•  citizenship;
• passport number;
• passport expiry date;
• desirable places of destination;
• dates needed for the invitation;

We send the invitation and tourist voucher to the Consular office at the Minsk International Airport.

You get a tourist visa and pay a visa and visa support fees at your arrival at the airport “Minsk-2”.

Belarusian entry visas are issued by the embassies/consulates of Belarus in the following countries:

Armenia (Yerevan), Azerbaijan (Baku), Austria (Vienna), Belgium (Brussels), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Bulgaria (Sofia), Canada (Ottawa), Czech Rep. (Prague), Cuba (La Habana), Egypt (Cairo), Estonia (Tallinn), France (Paris), Germany (Bonn, Berlin), Hungary (Budapest), India (Delhi), Iran (Tehran), Israel (Tel Aviv), Italy (Rome), Japan (Tokyo), Kazakhstan (Astana), Republic of Korea (Seoul), Kyrgyz Republic (Bishkek), Latvia (Riga, Daugavpils), Lithuania (Vilnius), Moldova (Chisinau), Netherlands (The Hague), Peoples' Republic of China (Beijing), Poland (Bialystok, Byala Podlyaska, Gdansk, Warsaw), Republic of South Africa (Pretoria), Romania (Bucharest), Russian Federation (Kaliningrad, Moscow, St Petersburg), Slovakia (Bratislava), Sweden (Stockholm), Switzerland (Bern), Syria (Damascus), Turkey (Ankara), Turkmenistan (Ashkhabad), Ukraine (Kyiv), United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi), United Kingdom (London), United States of America (New York, Washington D. C. ), Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Vietnam (Hanoi), Yugoslavia (Belgrade), Venezuela (Caracas).

Normally, visas are issued within 5 business days. Please note that business days are Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays. For details about fees please ask an appropriate Belarusian embassy or consulate abroad.

For a tourist visa, a confirmation letter from a Belarusian travel agency or sanatorium should be submitted. Visa can be issued for a period not exceeding 30 days. Please note that a hotel reservation does not substitute the confirmation letter mentioned above.

Additional information:

Visas are issued to authorize single, double or multiple entry. Visas are valid for the period indicated therein. When entering Belarus any foreign visitor should fill out and submit a migration card to the immigration officer. A uniform migration card covers both Belarus and Russia. All foreign visitors are required to have medical insurance issued by a Belarusian insurance agency or foreign agency that is contractually bound with a Belarusian agency to offer those services. Within 3 business days of the arrival in Belarus a foreign visitor should become registered with a local Citizenship & Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. Foreign visitors staying in a hotel are normally registered during check-in. Under certain circumstances a guest or business visa can be extended up to 90 days. Where the visa has expired, exit visas are required for all foreign visitors intending to leave the territory of Belarus.

Visa regulations at the Minsk National Airport

Belarusian visas at the Minsk International Airport (MSQ) are issued to the nationals of the countries with no consular offices of Belarus. To the nationals of other countries (see the list of the countries on the bottom) visa may be issued upon arrival on an exceptional basis only.

To obtain visa the following documents should be submitted to the Consular office at the Minsk International Airport:

• A valid passport.
• A completed application form.The form must be filled out completely, no blank spaces must be left. If a question does not apply, please type “N/A”. If the answer is none, write “NONE”. Incomplete forms will be returned to the applicants UNPROCESSED. The form should bear the original signature of applicant and must be well readable. Please, fill out in block letters.
• One passport size photo of the applicant which should be stapled to the marked space at the upper right-hand corner of the application form. Do not staple the face.
• An original letter of invitation (not a copy).
•  For a TOURIST visa (up to 30 days of stay):

Consular fees are subject to change depending on changes in the currency exchange rate.