The customs itself, the Kazakh one, works well and even fast enough, but there is no adjustment of the queue in front of customs at all, incomprehensible people walk in the queue, sell places in the queue, put non-traveling cars without numbers in the queue and shake the people, creating this very queue. At the same time, when asked "who are you?" They merge, like we're local and that's it... customs officers sometimes chase them away, but in general it's a mess! Shouldn't we make a zone in front of the post where you can't get out of cars and put traffic lights? We stood for 3 hours, although there were 4 hours at the Uzbek post, for a total of 7!!! And there were only 30 cars...
Conditions for people on foot are 3 out of 5. It should be noted that the Uzbek side has done an online passport check, and Kazakhstan is still offline checking through the windows.
Plus, the customs of Uzbekistan, by installing scanners, accelerated the process of crossing the border, when will scanners be installed from Kazakhstan?
Convenient crossing of the Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan border. Both for motorists and for those who travel by bus.
We quickly went through all the points and the order
For reasons we don't understand, customs has a very low throughput. On average, they went through the process itself in 20-25 minutes, but waited more than 10 hours. The gates were closed all the time, only buses and some other cars with a certain status were allowed to pass. I would like to be treated equally and fairly. Waiting at 10 o'clock in the scorching sun is a so-so pleasure.
If it were possible not to visit this place, then I would avoid it. I do not recommend it to anyone. And so I recommend everyone passing by to go through. Good luck and good mood to everyone.
The 21st century and the century of technology are in the yard, and the borders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are stuck in the 20th century! Corruption is developed in Kazakhstan, that the State Car Inspection stops on the roads for no reason and takes a bribe, that they demand a bribe at the customs border, and if you don't give a bribe, they nightmare, like they check you then for three hours and very slowly! The customs of Uzbekistan do not take a bribe, but they also pull rubber and work very slowly, as a result, when you arrive at the border, you lose from a day to two days, depending on how many cars. Also, in order for you to get past the queue from Kazakhstan, there are smart guys who take money and disappear as a result, in general they complain, do not complain to the police without it, they are all connected for one thing!
That's horrible. You can cross the border from Uzbekistan for several hours. From Kazakhstan, you will be greeted by currency changers and taxi drivers, colorful.
You can cross the border there quite quickly and quickly, it took about 20 minutes on average to get there and back. Now the state wants to introduce a paid accelerated passage at customs for those who wish, so there are fears that people may start to get into the paid queue for an accelerated transition, this risk must be considered.
To remove the tinting or immediately pay a hefty fine, putting it on your phone, you put it yourself, the problem is, you pay every bribe, the woman checking where pedestrians pass passport control is very rude and got caught for a very long time, the heat is forced to unload everything from the car
The Kazakh side has again started its own business. Again, they began to engage in extortion. Even border guards collect passports of those returning from Kazakhstan who worked at construction sites, find fault for all sorts of reasons and extort money, it all fails to remove it because it is worth banning the use of phones and a camera. Approximately around 13 Tashkent time, 14 Kazakhstan time. If this is being read, the higher-ranking authorities can check the cameras. But they don't need it. The boy was working in Astana and lost his passport. Through the embassy, I took a certificate of loss of my passport, he was detained at customs for more than an hour, as a result, it is impossible to get a certificate and this all solves 200 US dollars. brazen thieves. Somehow they put things in order , but apparently the cleaning needs to be updated . It was 08/12/2023
From the side of Kazakhstan, the authorities are in a complete mess, Customs officers are not looking at the place where they make money with residents
Customs has now become easy, you do not need to fill out any declarations, there are polite staff at both borders. She walked quickly in both directions
The customs office will move around quite quickly on foot. Last time at 10 p.m. we crossed the border in a record 11 minutes😊
We have never passed by car. We left the car in the parking lot, which is very democratic (500 tenge / day), there is security.
Thanks to the Uzbek border guards for letting you in the car by taxi.ATO with a small child, and even more so with suitcases, it's a long walk to the post.
But everything is fine
Customs officers are ripping off people! They're being rude and bullying the people!
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Эрик Сеитов
Level 12 Local Expert
August 16, 2024
On the part of Uzbekistan, quickly and well, on the part of Kazakhstan, it often takes a long time, border guards ask stupid questions, I remember a photo with a mustache in my passport, but there were none in my life, the border guard did not want to let me in for a long time, saying that it was not me (apparently biometrics is not familiar to them, or maybe he just wanted money).As for the infrastructure, everything seemed terrible to me on the Kazakh side (the state of the toilets, exchange offices like from the 90s), dirty and dusty
Inhuman attitudes towards people...thank God there is no such thing on the border in Russia...I went for the first time, I thought our neighboring countries were hospitable, but it turned out the opposite...the attitude of the border guards to people on 1, I do not know, can only be such an attitude to Russians.
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Добряк
Level 17 Local Expert
January 13, 2024
For the first time, after a long and prolonged waiting time for the cherished goal of visiting Uzbekistan, I got to this place by car, where I was very disappointed. There was a queue at the border, in total I drove for 6 hours, although the distance from the stop to the place of passport control and customs was only 100 meters. While waiting, I had to communicate with many ordinary people who claimed with one voice that it was so constant here! This place has its own rules and laws, cool and thugs can safely pass out of turn. I don't even want to write further, but nothing. Just keep in mind when you head to this place.
I drove back very quickly in 30 minutes.
It takes 30-40 minutes to cross the border on foot. There are a lot of people and many are trying to slip through without waiting in line. You have to present your passport 8 times. And only 2 times in the case.
Uzbekistan has a border crossing system without a border guard, but it does not work for children and does not always work for Russians.
There are no air conditioners.
The border crossing project is clearly old, no one thought about the convenience of people.
Customs officers, both from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, create an artificial traffic jam. There is only 1 customs officer on inspection and 1 customs officer on document verification. Cars stand for 4-5 hours on one side only, and then the same amount on the other side. In Uzbekistan, all cars still have to drive through a puddle, such as disinfection of car wheels. And the customs officers also take the money , and then your car will be passed ahead without a queue on the side of Kazakhstan
Ordinary customs) I can't say anything bad. If you pass early in the morning, before 5 o'clock, then there will be no people at all. The car is more problematic, there is always a queue.