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Albania to Mayotte

Visa-freeNo visa required before travel

This page separates the current comparison status from the official evidence collected for it. Rules shown here concern ordinary short visits unless a source states otherwise.

Official evidence collectedAccess data checked October 8, 2026Sources reviewed August 25, 2026
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How this access rule is documented

  1. Current official routeVisa-free

    Albanian standard ordinary biometric passports: French overseas visa exemption

    France's current territorial Annex II orders exempt Albanian biometric passport holders. Albania's current passport law and ordinary-passport instruction establish that every still-valid standard ordinary Albanian passport is biometric.

    • Applies only to a currently valid standard ordinary Albanian passport for a short visitor stay. Diplomatic, service, emergency, temporary, refugee, alien and other special travel documents are outside this policy.
    • Albania's current passport law has required biometric security data since its 2010 amendment; it identifies ordinary passports as issued by the Ministry of Interior. The current ordinary-passport instruction and consular service issue only ordinary biometric passports, including standard child passports.
    • Legacy non-biometric ordinary passports could have been issued no later than the 2010 biometric statutory regime. The statute fixes a maximum ordinary-passport validity of ten years for applicants over 16 and five years for those under 16; therefore no such legacy ordinary passport can remain valid on 25 August 2026.
    • The only recorded extensions do not preserve a contrary current document: the 2009-10 child biometric correction ran for one additional year; the 2020-21 extension ended 30 April 2021; and the 2025 extension was only for exercising the vote on 11 May 2025, through 31 May 2025. Accelerated issue and reissue under the current instruction are still biometric ordinary passports.
    • For French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte, the current entry framework caps the waiver at 90 days in any 180-day period. For French Polynesia and New Caledonia, the territorial Annex II waiver covers three months in any six-month period, subject to any more favourable circulation agreement.
    • Work, residence, transit, Schengen travel, passport-validity requirements, proof of purpose and means, border-admission discretion and territory-specific entry controls remain separate. The waiver does not authorize entry into European France or the Schengen area.
    Official sourcesOfficial Publications Centre of the Republic of Albania: Law No. 8668: issue of Albanian citizens' passports for travel abroad (consolidated)Official Gazette of the Republic of Albania / Ministry of Interior: Interior Minister Instruction No. 93/2024: procedure for ordinary biometric passportsMinistry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania: Application for passport or identity cardFrench Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals: French Interior Ministry: overseas visasLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 26 July 2011: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Annex IILégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 4 February 2015: Mayotte entry documents and visas, Annex IILégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 29 December 2011: French Polynesia entry documents and visas, Annex IILégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 22 July 2011: New Caledonia entry documents and visas, Annex II
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