Immigration Agency of Mongolia
Immigration administration
Mongolia's government implementing agency for foreign nationals: an independent government body responsible for managing the registration and control of foreign citizens residing in Mongolia, immigrants and stateless persons, organising visa issuance for temporary residence for official or personal reasons, issuing visa permits and residence permits, extending visas, and providing professional and methodological support to Mongolia's diplomatic missions abroad (Mongolia Immigration Agency functions, summarised in the GoGo News Agency cooperation report, Mongolian Business Database). Residence permits are issued by the Agency, and a foreign worker must request one in person with supporting documents within 21 days of entry (DP Law, Importing foreign workforce and its related certain issues, dplaw.mn).
The Agency's own history traces its predecessors to a Foreign Citizens Registration Division formed in 1926 under the Ulaanbaatar City Council, through passport and visa divisions inside the police, to a Bureau of Immigration, Naturalization and Foreign Citizens established by Government Decree No. 71 in 2001, a government implementing agency named the Immigration and Naturalization Agency in 2008, the General Authority for Citizenship and Immigration of Mongolia in 2014, and the Mongolia Immigration Agency from 2016 (Immigration Agency of Mongolia, Our history, immigration.gov.mn).
PEOPLE
Uuganbayar Nergui
Director General of the Immigration Agency of Mongolia - named as Director General in reporting of the 2025 Global Public Security Cooperation Forum migration sub-forum in Lianyungang, China (National Immigration Administration of China, en.nia.gov.cn, 2025)
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D. Murun
Head of the Mongolian Immigration Agency at the time the Agency signed a cooperation memorandum with GoGo News Agency (Mongolian Business Database, summarising gogo.mn)
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RECORD
Legal basis - DOCUMENTED
The Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Nationals provides that a residence permit for private purposes is granted by the state administrative body in charge of foreign nationals for five years with a possible three-year extension, for family reasons, permanent residency, work, investment, study and other private matters, and that the number of foreign nationals residing for private purposes may not exceed 3 percent of Mongolia's citizens, with nationals of one country up to 1 percent (Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Nationals, Articles 27.1-27.4, legalinfo.mn).
Electronic visa system, 2021 - DOCUMENTED
The electronic visa application system evisa.mn was put into service from 1 June 2021 within amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Nationals, reported by the Immigration Agency of Mongolia (Immigration Agency report, 8 October 2021, via Jamogrand summary).
Visas issued in 2025 - DOCUMENTED
In 2025 the Immigration Agency of Mongolia received 128,949 visa applications, approving 96.9 percent (124,945) and rejecting 3.1 percent (4,004); 85,690 applicants from 75 countries were issued visas through evisa.mn. Mongolia issues visas in nine main groups and 64 subcategories, of which the Agency processes 58 and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the remaining six (MONTSAME, reported by Qazinform, 6 January 2026).
Visa-free tourist access extended - DOCUMENTED
Mongolia extended its visa-free access for tourists from 34 countries until the end of 2026, according to the Immigration Agency (MONTSAME, reported by Qazinform, 6 January 2026). Research in progress on the Agency's deportation, detention and residence-permit refusal figures.
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