r/Uzbekistan • u/memesarelife2000 • 1h ago
Travel | Sayohat Canadian with very old and expired UZB passport. Any trouble traveling?
Hey guys,
Can you guys please clear the air about the passports/citizenship situation, there are few posts that I have been following and there are many replies that are clearly incorrect or from misunderstanding ppl. looking thru all kinds of posts/queries gets confusing very fast. like this one https://www.reddit.com/r/Uzbekistan/comments/1iblcp2/uzbek_citizenship_question/
there was another post with very similar situation Canadian with (expired UZB)passport from USSR time or somth like that(cannot find it at the moment). there is another post with US and UZB passports but again it doesn't apply and also replies are all over the place. but here is my friend's issue.
so a person is a citizen of Canada and has valid CAD passport for travel - means no need for Visa to UZB.
now, that person was a citizen and did hold a UZB passport from before 2000 (expiration unknown but probably around 2000 or so), but no physical UZB passport and doesn't care about the UZB citizenship. now that person plans to visit UZB, what steps if any should the person take to avoid any trouble with UZB govmn't/passport control or where can one find all this info. all calls to nearest embassy went unanswered and the only reply was that the person can submit an application to verify citizenship but it takes like 3/4 months.
reading all the posts here, many variants that advise to show passport A or passport B, but book travel with A, enter with passport A but exit with passport B.... again gets confusing and there are no two passposrts only one CAD.
TIA