{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"BH","name":"Bahrain","slug":"bahrain"},"destination":{"code":"AW","name":"Aruba"},"status":"visa_required","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"aruba-other-ordinary-passports-caribbean-visa-required","title":"Aruba: residual ordinary passports require a Caribbean visa","summary":"The current Dutch Government page supplies an explicit residual visa requirement after the named nationality and conditional exceptions; this is advance Caribbean-visa treatment, not eVisa or visa on arrival.","status":"visa_required","conditions":["The current official portal explicitly makes a Caribbean visa required if no listed visa-free situation applies; an application channel does not establish eVisa or visa-on-arrival access.","Valid multiple-entry Schengen/UK/Ireland/US/Canada documents and specified residence permits may waive the visa for particular travellers; these conditional routes are not nationality-wide passport classifications.","The Caribbean short-stay visa is not valid for the European Netherlands or another Schengen country, is normally at most 90 days in 180, and does not authorize paid work.","Aruba's maximum stay on a visa can be up to 180 consecutive days within 365, subject to the issued visa."],"sourceIds":["netherlands-worldwide-current-caribbean-visa-nationalities","netherlands-worldwide-current-caribbean-short-stay","curacao-published-rijk-visa-law"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"netherlands-worldwide-current-caribbean-visa-nationalities","title":"NetherlandsWorldwide: visa requirement for Caribbean Kingdom parts","url":"https://www.netherlandsworldwide.nl/caribbean-visa/visa-needed-caribbean","publisher":"NetherlandsWorldwide, Government of the Netherlands","jurisdiction":"Kingdom of the Netherlands","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"netherlands-worldwide-current-caribbean-short-stay","title":"NetherlandsWorldwide: short-stay Caribbean visa","url":"https://www.netherlandsworldwide.nl/caribbean-visa/short-stay","publisher":"NetherlandsWorldwide, Government of the Netherlands","jurisdiction":"Kingdom of the Netherlands","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"curacao-published-rijk-visa-law","title":"Curaçao Official Gazette: Kingdom Visa Act","url":"https://gobiernu.cw/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/P.B._2016__no._55.pdf","publisher":"Government of Curaçao","jurisdiction":"Kingdom of the Netherlands / Curaçao","kind":"law","language":"Dutch","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}