What you need to enter Egypt with a Luxembourgish passport

The Sinai Peninsula: different entry rules

Flying into Sharm El Sheikh to stay under fifteen days at resorts in Sharm El Sheikh, Dahab, Nuweiba or Taba needs no visa: you get a free entry permission stamp at the airport. That stamp does not cover leaving the area or longer stays, which need a visa. At the Taba land crossing from Israel the FCDO describes three different border taxes depending on how far you travel, and going beyond Sinai also needs the ordinary entry visa plus a letter of guarantee. The figures are the FCDO's and are worth confirming before you travel, since payment is in cash at the crossing itself.

Source: FCDO, gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/egypt/entry-requirements (comprobado 18/09/2026)

Authorisation system

e-Visa

Official portal of the Egyptian Ministry of Interior. Available for more than 70 nationalities, with a single or multiple entry tourist visa. Watch out for third-party websites that charge extra fees while imitating the official portal.

Apply on the official site →

Visa, e-Visa, or electronic authorisation? What's the difference →

Processing time

The official e-Visa portal asks you to create the application at least 7 days before departure and sends an email once it has been processed. It does not publish a processing time.

Required documents

• A passport valid for at least 6 months from the arrival date.
• With an e-Visa, on arrival you show the printed e-Visa, your travel itinerary and your hotel bookings or the places you will visit (or a company or invitation letter for business or family visits).
• For a visa obtained at an embassy or consulate, the Egyptian Embassy in Washington asks for copies of the passport page with the photo and a recent 2 × 2 inch passport photo on a white background, no more than 6 months old. Other consulates may ask for a different format.
• Accommodation details (hotel or host) for the stay.
• If you intend to obtain the visa on arrival at the airport, your passport must have more than 6 months of validity at the moment you arrive, and your nationality must not be on the list of countries requiring prior approval.
• Since 1 September 2026, Egyptian airports have replaced the visa-on-arrival sticker with an electronic QR code.

Health insurance

Not mandatory for this destination.

When travel insurance is mandatory → Travel insurance policies ↓

Transit rules

EGYPTAIR, the flag carrier, publishes a free transit visa for layovers of between 8 and 96 hours. You obtain it on arrival at the EGYPTAIR transit office at Cairo airport by filling in a data form; the procedure takes 30 to 45 minutes and your passport is held at that office while you are out of the airport. One condition rules a fair number of people out: only nationalities that can obtain an emergency visa on arrival in Cairo are eligible. This comes from the airline itself, not from a ministry, so confirm it with them before planning the layover.