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By Amina Nazarli

More travelers will be able to visit Azerbaijan without tiring procedures, since the list of countries, whose citizens can take advantage of the ASAN Visa system has been replenished by 12 more states.

The new included countries are the following: Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras, Maldives, Mauritius, Paraguay, Peru, Seychelles, Jamaica and Colombia, according to State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations under the President of Azerbaijan.

Thus, if initially citizens of 81 countries took advantage of ASAN Visa system, now this figure has increased to 93.

The initially determined countries were the U.S., Albania, Germany, Andorra, Belgium, the UAE, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Brazil, Brunei, South Africa, Czech Republic, Chili, China, Denmark, Estonia, Aljazeer, Finland, France, India, Croatia, Indonesia, Jordan, Iran, Ireland, Island, Spain, Israel, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Cyprus, Korea, Costa-Rica, Cuba, Kuwait, Qatar, Guatemala, Latvia, Lithuania, Lichtenstein, Luxemburg, Hungary, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Monaco, Montenegro, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Vatican, Vietnam, Japan, New Zealand and Greece.

Foreigners and stateless persons are able to receive electronic visas through the ASAN Visa system in three steps (appeal, payment and loading of an electronic visa) within three working days.

Electronic visa is a document for one entry, which determines the period of stay in the country up to 30 days.

Electronic visas are issued only for citizens of the country, approved by the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan, and for stateless persons permanently residing in this country.

Also, the ASAN Visa system offers the issuance of group visas to foreign citizens. Group appeals are provided for a minimum of two, a maximum of ten people.

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Amina Nazarli is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @amina_nazarli

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