{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"JP","name":"Japan","slug":"japan"},"destination":{"code":"MF","name":"Saint Martin (French part)"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"saint-martin-listed-ordinary-passports-visa-free","title":"Named ordinary passports: visa-free short visitor entry","summary":"The current Saint-Martin Annex II directly lists these ordinary passports as visa-exempt for an ordinary short visit; all have the normal 90-days-in-180-days ceiling unless the schedule states a narrower rule.","status":"visa_free","conditions":["For a visitor stay not exceeding 90 days in any 180-day period, except where the current Annex II gives a more favourable or narrower passport-specific limit. The listed 15-day Saint Lucia rule is separated below.","For AU, BR, JP, KR, MX, SG and US, the Annex II waiver does not cover a remunerated activity where French law requires a work authorisation and it is not produced. This candidate is limited to the ordinary short-visitor purpose.","For GB, this reflects the ordinary British Citizen passport baseline. The Annex II separately limits certain other British-nationality labels; special passports, residence/long-stay-visa waivers, crew and cruise exceptions, transit, public-order restrictions and final admission are not normalized here.","MF denotes Saint Martin (French part), a French overseas collectivity. This is not a Schengen-visa classification, and the table does not establish any electronic visa or routine visa-on-arrival issuance."],"sourceIds":["france-legifrance-saint-martin-current-annex-ii","france-legifrance-saint-martin-visa-order","france-interior-current-overseas-visas"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"france-legifrance-saint-martin-current-annex-ii","title":"Annexe II — Arrêté du 18 avril 2012 relatif aux documents et visas exigés pour l'entrée des étrangers sur le territoire des collectivités de Saint-Barthélemy et de Saint-Martin","url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000045781904","publisher":"Légifrance, French Government legal-publication service","jurisdiction":"France / Saint Martin (French part)","kind":"law","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"france-legifrance-saint-martin-visa-order","title":"Arrêté du 18 avril 2012 relatif aux documents et visas exigés pour l'entrée des étrangers sur le territoire des collectivités de Saint-Barthélemy et de Saint-Martin","url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000025746952","publisher":"Légifrance, French Government legal-publication service","jurisdiction":"France / Saint Martin (French part)","kind":"law","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"france-interior-current-overseas-visas","title":"Visas pour l'outre-mer","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 in France","jurisdiction":"France / overseas collectivities","kind":"government-guidance","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}