Entry rule for your passport
Visa required: eVisa or a 30-day airport visa on arrival with confirmed return flights. Your passport needs more than 6 months of validity from entry.
Official sources: Consulate General of Egypt in Sydney.
Who this covers: Ordinary Australian passports on tourist trips. Egyptian dual nationality, non-tourist purposes and other travel documents require separate confirmation.
Check your circumstances
Read these conditions alongside the entry rule. Where official guidance does not state a condition, that is not confirmation that no condition applies.
- Passport type Conditions to check
- The consulate’s arrival route expressly covers Australian passport holders. Do not apply it to another nationality’s travel document.
Official sources: Consulate General of Egypt in Sydney.
- Trip purpose Confirmed for this scope
- The arrival permission described by the consulate is a single-entry tourist visa.
Official sources: Consulate General of Egypt in Sydney.
- Age Conditions to check
- No tourist-eligibility age band is stated. Smartraveller says children of Egyptian fathers need their father’s approval to leave Egypt.
Official sources: Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
- Residence Not stated in the cited guidance
- The Australian arrival route does not state an overseas-residence requirement. Consular applications can have separate local requirements.
Official sources: Consulate General of Egypt in Sydney.
- Other visas or residence permits Not stated in the cited guidance
- The Australian arrival route lists confirmed return flights, not a third-country supporting visa.
Official sources: Consulate General of Egypt in Sydney.
- Carrier and arrival route Conditions to check
- The consulate describes airport or seaport arrival with confirmed return flights. No specific airline is named.
Official sources: Consulate General of Egypt in Sydney.
- Stay and visa validity Confirmed for this scope
- The arrival tourist visa allows at most 30 days, with one entry. Follow the permission actually granted.
Official sources: Consulate General of Egypt in Sydney.
Apply through the official portal
Register on Egypt’s eVisa portal, complete the application and await approval. Download and print the approved visa for arrival. Payment or an application reference is not the approval itself.
Official sources: Egypt Ministry of Interior.
Prepare for arrival
Keep your confirmed return flight with your passport and accommodation details. Smartraveller advises a non-Egyptian credit card or US-dollar cash for an arrival visa; do not rely on an airport ATM dispensing foreign currency.
Egypt treats Australian-Egyptian dual nationals as Egyptian. Check that separate position before relying on this ordinary-passport guide.
Official sources: Consulate General of Egypt in Sydney; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Check the consulate before sending a passport
Sydney’s Category A page currently says local visa issuance is unavailable because of a technical problem. It points Australians to arrival visas, the eVisa portal or the Melbourne consulate. Confirm the service has resumed before posting an application. This is a Sydney service notice, not a suspension of entry to Egypt.
Official sources: Consulate General of Egypt in Sydney.
Check the linked authorities again before travel; Egypt makes the final entry decision.
Approved by TravPa Editors.