{"id":150867,"date":"2025-11-05T19:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=150867"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:14:20","slug":"uzbekistan-to-introduce-visa-free-stay-for-us-citizens-from-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=150867","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan to introduce visa-free stay for US citizens from 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting 1 January, Uzbekistan will introduce a 30-day visa-free stay for US citizens. The decree was signed by the president. Currently, this applies only to tourists aged 55 and older.<br \/>\nStarting 1 January 2026, US citizens visiting Uzbekistan will be able to enter the country without a visa for up to 30 days. This is states in a decree by president Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed on 3 November, UzA reported.<br \/>\nIn 2021 Uzbekistan introduced a visa-free stay for US citizens (and citizens of several other countries) aged 55 and older traveling for tourism for up to 30 days.<br \/>\nPlans to introduce a visa-free stay for all US citizens were first mentioned in a presidential decree from 15 May, aimed at \u201csignificantly increasing\u201d tourist arrivals to the country.<br \/>\nThat document also instructed the Foreign Ministry to begin negotiations with the United States on easing visa requirements for Uzbekistan citizens traveling to the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting 1 January, Uzbekistan will introduce a 30-day visa-free stay for US citizens. The decree was signed by the president. Currently, this applies only to tourists aged 55 and older. Starting 1 January 2026, US citizens visiting Uzbekistan will be able to enter the country without a visa for up to 30 days. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10916],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150868,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150867\/revisions\/150868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}