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All visitors to Mongolia require a visa unless they come from one of the visa exempt countries.
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Visa policy
Visitors from any country planning to stay in Mongolia for more than 30 days must register with the Mongolia Immigration Agency in Ulaanbaatar within the first seven days of arrival. Visitors who fail to register and who stay longer than 30 days, even for reasons beyond their control, will be stopped at departure, temporarily denied exit, and fined. Until 1997, individual tourists wishing to visit Mongolia needed a letter of invitation from either a Mongolian citizen or a foreign resident before being granted a visa. Since then the visa regime has been greatly liberalised with a resultant increase in tourism.
Mongolia previously had a temporary visa waiver for the citizens of 41 countries in place between June 2014 and December 2015.
Visa exemptions
Mongolia grants visa-free access to citizens of 24 countries and territories.
Visa exemption applies only to holders of diplomatic passports of Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Japan, United Kingdom and holders of diplomatic or official/service passports of Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea and Vietnam.
Visa on arrival
Holders of a confirmation of a pre-arranged visa can obtain a single entry visa on arrival at Chinggis Khaan International Airport, provided their passport is valid for at least one year on arrival, arriving from a country without diplomatic representation of Mongolia and that sponsor in Mongolia submits request to the Mongolian Immigration Authority. The fee is 108,000 tögrög and 3 USD.
Statistics
Most visitors arriving to Mongolia on short term basis were from the following countries of nationality: