How to Apply for the QazETA: Step-by-Step Guide (2026)

How to apply for the QazETA: the short version

You apply for the Kazakhstan QazETA (QazETA) online, on the official portal, https://qazeta.kz. The application is free, takes about three to five minutes per person, and must be submitted within 3 days before your arrival date in Kazakhstan. There is no account to create — you fill the form, submit, and receive a confirmation email with a QR code.

The form follows a fixed order: passport information, personal information, travel information, accommodation in Kazakhstan, and health declaration. This walkthrough follows that order exactly, with the exact button names the portal uses. Full background on what the card is and who needs it is in our Kazakhstan QazETA guide.

One decision to make before starting: if you would rather not deal with the portal at all, we are an independent filing service — we file the card for you for $19, confirmation within 24 hours, full refund if we fail to deliver. The official form is always free to submit yourself, and the rest of this guide shows how.

Before you start: check the window and gather your details

Confirm your timing first. The portal only accepts cards submitted within 3 days before the arrival date, counted from the arrival date itself. Arriving Monday 16 June 2026 means the window opens Saturday 13 June. Submitting earlier does not queue your card — it is simply rejected, and there is no way to save a half-finished form for later.

Open three things before you begin: your passport, your flight confirmation, and your hotel booking. The sweet spot is submitting one or two days before departure: your details are final, and the confirmation email arrives well before check-in, where airline staff sometimes ask to see it.

Step 1: Enter your passport information

The first block wants your passport number, full name as printed in the passport, nationality, and date of birth. You have three ways to fill it: scan the machine-readable zone (MRZ) — the two lines of characters at the bottom of the biodata page — with your phone camera; upload a photo of the page; or type manually. The MRZ scan is the fastest and the least error-prone.

Check every character before moving on. Name, passport number, nationality, and date of birth are the four fields you cannot change after submitting — an error in any of them means filing a brand-new card, because the update flow locks them.

Step 2: Enter your personal information

The personal block asks for your contact details and, most importantly, the email address where your confirmation and QR code will be sent. Type it carefully and check it twice — the confirmation email is your proof at check-in and immigration, and recovering a mis-sent confirmation is an avoidable headache.

If you are filing for a group, this is the email that receives everyone's QR codes, so use an address you actually monitor, not a throwaway.

Step 3: Enter your travel information

The travel block wants the flight number of the leg that physically lands in Kazakhstan, your arrival date, your port of entry, and your purpose of travel. If you connect through Doha, Singapore, or Kuala Lumpur, use the final leg's flight number — the card is matched against that flight's manifest at immigration.

Watch the arrival date if your journey crosses midnight or several time zones: the portal wants the date you land in Kazakhstan, not the date you took off. The table below lists the fields that trip people up most.

Step 4: Enter your accommodation in Kazakhstan

The accommodation block wants your hotel's name and address, or the address where you will stay. Copy both from your booking confirmation rather than typing from memory — mismatched addresses are among the most common errors, especially when one person retypes the hotel for a whole family.

If you are staying in more than one place, enter where you will stay first. If your plans change later, the accommodation can be corrected through the update flow.

Step 5: Complete the health declaration

List the countries you visited or stayed in during the two weeks before your arrival. The system checks that history, plus your boarding country, nationality, and flight details, against a watchlist maintained by the Ministry of Public Health.

For most travelers nothing matches, the block stays short, and the application moves on. If something matches — typically travel connected with yellow-fever-risk countries in Africa and South America — the portal expands the block with extra health questions. Answer them honestly. If you are not prompted, there is nothing extra to answer, and no published country list is worth relying on, because the watchlist changes.

Step 6: Add other travelers and submit

Filing for a family or group? Use **“Add Other Travelers”** on the traveler information step. Each added traveler gets their own card tied to their own passport, and one submission covers up to 10 travelers. The **“Same as Previous Traveler”** button copies shared details — flight, accommodation — from the traveler you just entered, so a family of five becomes one sitting of roughly 15 minutes.

Review every traveler's passport details before you submit. A family member, tour operator, or travel agent may file on behalf of others, and the confirmation email with all QR codes goes to the single email entered on the form.

Then submit. The portal emails the card with its QR code, typically within minutes. You can show that QR on your phone at immigration — printing is optional — and the card stays downloadable during your stay.

After you submit: confirmations, updates, and fixes

Keep the confirmation email until you have landed. It holds the card number you need for any update, and it is your proof if the immigration system is slow to find your record. Check spam if it does not arrive quickly; the official guidance for a missing QR code is to contact the immigration officer at your entry checkpoint.

If your flight, arrival date, or accommodation changes, use “Update Arrival Card”: enter your QazETA card number, date of birth, and nationality, click “Search”, confirm the correction, edit the fields that changed, and download the updated card — the new QR code replaces the old one. If your name, passport number, nationality, or date of birth is wrong instead, submit a brand-new card; the system treats the most recent submission as the valid one.

For who needs the card in the first place, see our do I need a Kazakhstan arrival card guide; for a field-by-field breakdown of what to prepare, our QazETA requirements guide.

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