Turkmenistan Visa
Quite easy to get in Tehran (Iran) if, as with all the Central Asian embassies, you are in the right place at the right time.
You can only visit Turkmenistan on your own on a transit visa. For a normal visa you have to join a tour.
The embassy in Tehran opens from Sunday till Thursday from 9:00 to 11:00. Went there and surprise: the embassy closed the day before for one week due to, as usual, unknown reasons. A girl there told us we had to go to Mashhad to apply for the visa. I couldn't believe my eyes. Extremely luckily a guy told us to go to a window and there we met the consul, a really nice guy who surprisingly gave us the application form and told us we could apply for the visa there. We gave him all the documents: a letter saying when are you going to Turkmenistan, your entry and exit points, your name and so on, the application form, 2 copies of your passport, 2 pictures and a copy of your Uzbek visa. Of course there was a problem: the copies of passport and Uzbek visa must be in color! He said he would wait so we went in search for a place to make color photocopies. One hour later back to the embassy, handed in all documents and he said we could pick up the visa in Mashhad in one week.
After one week, in Mashhad, we went to the consulate, gave 2 more pictures, another copy of Ubek visa and passport (this time no color), another application form the consul gave us in Tehran and 55 USD to be payed on the spot. He told us to come back in two hours and we got our 5-day Turkmen transit visa.
You can only visit Turkmenistan on your own on a transit visa. For a normal visa you have to join a tour.
The embassy in Tehran opens from Sunday till Thursday from 9:00 to 11:00. Went there and surprise: the embassy closed the day before for one week due to, as usual, unknown reasons. A girl there told us we had to go to Mashhad to apply for the visa. I couldn't believe my eyes. Extremely luckily a guy told us to go to a window and there we met the consul, a really nice guy who surprisingly gave us the application form and told us we could apply for the visa there. We gave him all the documents: a letter saying when are you going to Turkmenistan, your entry and exit points, your name and so on, the application form, 2 copies of your passport, 2 pictures and a copy of your Uzbek visa. Of course there was a problem: the copies of passport and Uzbek visa must be in color! He said he would wait so we went in search for a place to make color photocopies. One hour later back to the embassy, handed in all documents and he said we could pick up the visa in Mashhad in one week.
After one week, in Mashhad, we went to the consulate, gave 2 more pictures, another copy of Ubek visa and passport (this time no color), another application form the consul gave us in Tehran and 55 USD to be payed on the spot. He told us to come back in two hours and we got our 5-day Turkmen transit visa.
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