Uzbek / Kazak Border crossing | Customs and Immigration

March 23rd, 2024 by benito

Terrible crossing from KZ to UZ. Took 4h on the KZ side alone.
Be aware, no vans with 3.5t. Not sure what the limit is, I think 3t, that’s a rule on the UZ side. They let us through in the end with lot of “convincing”. Overall quite chaotic and especially on the UZ side unclear rules. The whole process took us 6h. Definitely not recommended as a border :)

September 28th, 2023 by milah

Awfull border crossing as it took us 7 hours.... at first we thought he Uzbek were the problem. But after 5 hours we reached the Kazach border and there was 1 man checking the cars..... A lot of irritation and frustration among people in line as people tried to skip the line. We were the only Western tourist and hoped to get pass the line, as we did before, but not an option. Patience, patience my friend 😇

September 25th, 2023 by cvoinea

We crossed the border from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan in 8 hours (finally at 3:30 A.M.!). We stood in line with a lot of cars making small border traffic that were very rigorously controlled.

September 21st, 2023 by instagram.com/buscandonuevaruta

Relatively quick border (1:30h UZ / 30min KZ)

Uzbekistan side was somewhat unpleasant, we had 2 drunk officers who were quite idi*ts. They made us take everything out of the vehicle and also searched and fiddled with everything in the drawers asking stupid questions.

On the Kazakhstan side they were very friendly and professional. We only had to present the documentation (they themselves filled out the vehicle import paper for us on the computer). They didn't search the vehicle.

June 19th, 2023 by our.overland.adventures

Uzbekistan > Kazakhstan. Not busy at all, we were already at the border gate before we actually knew it. Just a tiny bit chaotic for Central Asian standards. No signs or whatsoever where to go but they point you in the right direction. Uzbekistan out took more or less an hour, Kazakhstan in a bit less than an hour. Longest waits are at the import and passport desks, the car checks go quite fast.

March 19th, 2020 by travelove.org

Very friendly bordercrossing. One officer spoke English, the other one talked to us about Martin Luther and German literature in ... German! :-)
They wanted to see all our registration slips when exiting Uzbekistan and they took their time to sort them into the right order. If you want to save time, do it yourself while waiting in line.
Kazakh side very unfriendly and kind of rude, nobody speaks English.

November 3rd, 2019 by be-five.be

Coming from Shymkent you end up here if you follow the Taschkent indications. But this border is not allowed for trucks.

September 26th, 2019 by Boldtobewild.com

We arrive at 3pm. We end up going through all 2 boarder controlls the mext morning at 7am. So far the longest time into a boarder zone... 😅
We were lucky to wait at night. Still hot during the day.....

June 26th, 2019 by gugger.info

We could not cross from Kazakstan to Uzbekistan at this border point. Big rig, 7 meters, 12 tons. We had to cross at Saryaghash, there trucks are allowed although the roads are very narrow.

April 19th, 2019 by mnbv

We had a really slow border crossing. They know what to do with you, but there were too many people and not enough staff. We stayed 5,5 hours at the border. Sometimes even a little bit complicated

October 17th, 2018 by diereise.org

we had a really fast border crossing from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan.
I think the border is now better organised than before.

August 20th, 2018 by scarlett.mansfield

So so slow, you just don’t move and they don’t tell you why!! Clueless. I’d recommend another border. It took over 3 hours to cross into Kazakhstan! Kept asking for bribes but just kept saying no and they gave up.

June 19th, 2018 by polaris-overland.com

Very slow and disorganised.
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