{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"AL","name":"Albania","slug":"albania"},"destination":{"code":"GF","name":"French Guiana"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-25","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"albanian-standard-biometric-passports-french-overseas-visa-free-2026","title":"Albanian standard ordinary biometric passports: French overseas visa exemption","summary":"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.","status":"visa_free","conditions":["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."],"sourceIds":["albania-official-gazette-current-passport-law-biometric-validity-2026","albania-official-gazette-standard-biometric-passport-instruction-2024","albania-mfa-current-standard-biometric-passport-service-2026","france-interior-current-overseas-visa-framework-2026","france-drom-current-annex-ii-albania-biometric-2026","france-mayotte-current-annex-ii-albania-biometric-2026","france-polynesia-current-annex-ii-albania-biometric-2026","france-new-caledonia-current-annex-ii-albania-biometric-2026"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"albania-official-gazette-current-passport-law-biometric-validity-2026","title":"Law No. 8668: issue of Albanian citizens' passports for travel abroad (consolidated)","url":"https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/webdav/Aktet/ligj/kuvendi-i-shqiperise/2000/10/23/8668/cons-2025-03-13/ligj-2000-10-23-8668-i%20p%C3%ABrdit%C3%ABsuar%208.pdf","publisher":"Official Publications Centre of the Republic of Albania","jurisdiction":"Republic of Albania","kind":"law","language":"Albanian","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"},{"id":"albania-official-gazette-standard-biometric-passport-instruction-2024","title":"Interior Minister Instruction No. 93/2024: procedure for ordinary biometric passports","url":"https://qbz.gov.al/alfresco/webdav/FZ/2024/91/FZ-2024-91.pdf","publisher":"Official Gazette of the Republic of Albania / Ministry of Interior","jurisdiction":"Republic of Albania","kind":"law","language":"Albanian","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"},{"id":"albania-mfa-current-standard-biometric-passport-service-2026","title":"Application for passport or identity card","url":"https://punetejashtme.gov.al/en/aplikim-per-pasaporte-dhe-karte-identiteti/","publisher":"Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania","jurisdiction":"Republic of Albania","kind":"government-guidance","language":"Albanian","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"},{"id":"france-interior-current-overseas-visa-framework-2026","title":"French Interior Ministry: overseas visas","url":"https://www.immigration.interieur.gouv.fr/limmigration-en-france/visas-en-france/visas-pour-loutre-mer","publisher":"French Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals","jurisdiction":"France / overseas territories","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"},{"id":"france-drom-current-annex-ii-albania-biometric-2026","title":"Order of 26 July 2011: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Annex II","url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000051759462","publisher":"Légifrance, French Government legal-publication service","jurisdiction":"France / French Guiana / Réunion","kind":"law","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"},{"id":"france-mayotte-current-annex-ii-albania-biometric-2026","title":"Order of 4 February 2015: Mayotte entry documents and visas, Annex II","url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000051759443","publisher":"Légifrance, French Government legal-publication service","jurisdiction":"France / Mayotte","kind":"law","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"},{"id":"france-polynesia-current-annex-ii-albania-biometric-2026","title":"Order of 29 December 2011: French Polynesia entry documents and visas, Annex II","url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000025092900/","publisher":"Légifrance, French Government legal-publication service","jurisdiction":"France / French Polynesia","kind":"law","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"},{"id":"france-new-caledonia-current-annex-ii-albania-biometric-2026","title":"Order of 22 July 2011: New Caledonia entry documents and visas, Annex II","url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000024389411/","publisher":"Légifrance, French Government legal-publication service","jurisdiction":"France / New Caledonia","kind":"law","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"}]}