Here's what I wish someone had told me about Uzbekistan: the list of requirements is short, but the clinical examination window is only five days, which is tighter than almost anywhere. No import permit, no quarantine, no microchip requirement and no titre test. Cooper's file for a trip like this would be a single certificate and a vaccination record.

Pet import to Uzbekistan is overseen by the national veterinary authority. Confirmed against an official source so far: a rabies vaccination and a health certificate. Anything else — commonly a microchip, rabies vaccination and health certificate — is not yet confirmed for Uzbekistan against an official source, so it's flagged in the table below rather than assumed.

How Uzbekistan handles your pet

Key points

  • Uzbekistan's pet-import conditions come from the Veterinary (Veterinary-Sanitary) Requirements approved by Resolution No
  • 04 of 28 February 2014 of the Chief State Veterinary Inspector, whose Chapter 15 covers dogs and cats
  • Up to two dogs or cats carried for personal use enter without an import permit and without quarantine, accompanied by an international pet passport, which in that case counts as the veterinary certificate, provided the competent authority has marked in it a clinical examination carried out within 5 days before dispatch
  • Uzbekistan does not ask for that passport to be re-issued as a local veterinary document on arrival from a third country
  • Animals are vaccinated no later than 14 days before dispatch unless they were already vaccinated within the previous 6 months; for dogs the required list is rabies, canine distemper, hepatitis, viral enteritis, parvovirus and adenovirus infections and leptospirosis, and for cats it is rabies and panleukopenia
  • Cats must be vaccinated against panleukopenia, which has no structured field of its own in this record
  • Treatment against external and internal parasites is optional and is simply recorded in the certificate if it was given
  • The animal must come from a territory that has been free of rabies and tuberculosis for the previous 6 months
  • Everything crossing the state border under veterinary control must be cleared at a border veterinary control point, and the certificate for personal pets is issued at one of those points on the strength of the regional veterinary authority's conclusion; Uzbekistan does not publish a designated list of pet ports of entry
  • Two cautions
  • First, the general provisions of the 2014 Requirements set a 21-day quarantine and an import-permit rule for imported animals, but they apply only where the species-specific chapter is silent, and Chapter 15 expressly exempts up to two personal pets from both
  • Second, the 2014 Requirements still name the Main State Veterinary Directorate of the former Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources; that body is now the Committee for Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Development, and the document has not been re-issued under the new name

Each fact comes straight from the operator’s published policy. Tap the to read the exact wording; the opens the source page.

Health & documents

Microchip · Required Noverified 2026-09-14
Quarantine · Required Noverified 2026-09-14
Rabies titer test (FAVN) · Required Noverified 2026-09-14
Import permit · Required Noverified 2026-09-14
Flea treatment · Required Noverified 2026-09-14
Heartworm test · Required Noverified 2026-09-14
Tick treatment · Required Noverified 2026-09-14
Health certificate · IssuerCompetent authority of the country of dispatchverified 2026-09-14
Health certificate · Required Yesverified 2026-09-14
Health certificate · Endorsed byCompetent authority of the country of dispatchverified 2026-09-14
Health certificate · Validity days5 daysverified 2026-09-14
Health certificate · Government endorsed Yesverified 2026-09-14
Other vaccinations · Distemper Yesverified 2026-09-14
Other vaccinations · Adenovirus Yesverified 2026-09-14
Other vaccinations · Parvovirus Yesverified 2026-09-14
Other vaccinations · Leptospirosis Yesverified 2026-09-14
Rabies vaccination · Required Yesverified 2026-09-14
Rabies vaccination · Booster required Yesverified 2026-09-14
Rabies vaccination · Waiting period after vaccination14 daysverified 2026-09-14
Tapeworm treatment · Required Noverified 2026-09-14
Screwworm treatment · Required Noverified 2026-09-14
Internal parasite treatment · Required Noverified 2026-09-14

Other rules

Pets accepted Acceptedverified 2026-09-14

Timing chain

Day -14 rabies vaccine deadline · Day -5 health certificate issued · Day 0 arrive at customs

The certificate must carry a competent authority's endorsement confirming a clinical examination carried out within the 5 days before dispatch. Five days is the whole window, and it runs to dispatch rather than to arrival. Book the examination in the same week as the flight, and confirm the competent authority can endorse inside that window before committing to the date.
Uzbekistan publishes no banned-breed list. What it does require is that dogs and cats admitted to its territory are clinically healthy and come from territories free of contagious animal diseases. The condition attaches to the animal's health and its region of origin rather than to its breed, so the examination result and the origin declaration are what matter.
The 5 days examination window is the real constraint on this trip, and its cost is scheduling rather than money: one appointment, correctly dated, with the official endorsement completed before dispatch. Missing the window means repeating both the examination and the endorsement. Confirm the authority's turnaround before booking, because a weekend can consume most of those 5 days.
Uzbekistan asks for very little and asks for it quickly. No permit, no quarantine, no chip, no titre test, but a clinical examination inside five days of departure with an official endorsement behind it. That makes the final week the only tight part of the trip. Put your departure date into the plan builder and it will place the examination.
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Glossary

ISO chip
ISO 11784/11785 — the universal microchip standard.
FAVN
Fluorescent Antibody Virus Neutralization — a rabies serology test required by rabies-free destinations.
Brachycephalic
Snub-nosed breeds (French Bulldogs, Pugs, Persians, Himalayans) with restricted airline acceptance due to heat-stress risk.
AVIH
Animal Vehicle In Hold — IATA's term for cargo pet shipment, with fees that vary by carrier and route.