Pakistan medical visa

Citizens of the countries eligible for the online visa system can apply for medical purposes. There are two application types: Short-Term (Entry) for a new visa, and Long-Term (Extension) to extend a visa already issued while you are in Pakistan.

For the short-term visa the portal asks for a photograph, passport, hotel booking details and a medical report. For the long-term extension a consultation and consent letter from an enlisted hospital is mandatory. The portal’s list names about thirty hospitals and providers authorised to issue such letters, among them Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Shaukat Khanum Memorial hospitals in Lahore and Peshawar, Shifa International in Islamabad and the Pak Emirates Military Hospital in Rawalpindi.

The portal's calculator sets the fee for the short-term single-entry medical visa and for the long-term extension according to the country you apply from. Check it before applying and pay online by card.

A short-term visa of up to three months is processed in 48 hours; a long-term extension of up to one year takes four to six weeks, as do all applications from Somali passport holders. If officials send the application back for review, you have seven days to resubmit or it is cancelled, and the processing time starts again from resubmission.

If treatment lasts beyond the short-term visa, apply for the Long-Term (Extension) visa from inside Pakistan before your visa expires, with the hospital’s consultation and consent letter. If a visa runs out before you can leave, the Exit Permit procedure on the same portal applies.