{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"KP","name":"North Korea","slug":"north-korea"},"destination":{"code":"BH","name":"Bahrain"},"status":"visa_required","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"bahrain-refresh-unlisted-online-and-arrival-ordinary-passports-advance-visa","title":"Bahrain: Iran, North Korea, and Kosovo ordinary passports requiring advance visa","summary":"Iran, North Korea, and Kosovo are not named in either live NPRA online or on-arrival country schedule. Bahrain's National Portal expressly gives the residual rule that a non-on-arrival country needs an entry visa issued in advance through an embassy, sponsor, or travel agency.","status":"visa_required","conditions":["This is the National Portal's explicit advance-issuance residual for nationalities outside the on-arrival schedule, read with the current online and on-arrival country schedules. It is not inferred from a commercial passport index or from a failed application.","The cited schedules do not name these three catalog passport codes. The National Portal describes advance issuance through a Bahrain embassy in the country of residence, a Bahraini sponsor, or a travel agency; it does not establish a nationality-wide self-service eVisa route for them.","This policy does not decide any resident-, GCC-status-, third-country-document-, invitation-, work-, residence-, transit-, diplomatic-, official-, service-, refugee-, emergency-, or special-document exception. Visa issuance, security screening, sanctions, carrier checks, and final admission remain applicable."],"sourceIds":["bahrain-refresh-evisa-online-country-list","bahrain-refresh-evisa-onarrival-country-list","bahrain-refresh-national-portal-advance-visa-default","bahrain-refresh-evisa-faq-direct-visa-default"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"bahrain-refresh-evisa-online-country-list","title":"Bahrain eVisa: Countries Eligible to Get Visa Online","url":"https://www.evisa.gov.bh/list-of-online-visa-country.html","publisher":"Nationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior","jurisdiction":"Bahrain","kind":"official-portal","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"bahrain-refresh-evisa-onarrival-country-list","title":"Bahrain eVisa: Countries Eligible to Get Visa on-Arrival","url":"https://www.evisa.gov.bh/list-of-onarrival-visa-country.html","publisher":"Nationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior","jurisdiction":"Bahrain","kind":"official-portal","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"bahrain-refresh-national-portal-advance-visa-default","title":"Bahrain National Portal: Visas","url":"https://bahrain.bh/wps/portal/en/BNP/HomeNationalPortal/ContentDetailsPage/%21ut/p/z0/fZBBT8JAEIX_ynjo0exApeBRJKGQIFUTgb2QbTuUgTJbtlui_97acDBqvL33Mpn35Smt1kqLuXBhPFsxZes3Otr2ZgOMR4-IyeSuj89v9y_ReNHDxTRUryRqrvT3o_gpmWC0jEfD_nAcLpPw6wsfzmf9oHRmxdO7V-tUqi1JgCa1jQe_JziyFLk9BZiavTMsDCUVXJcdSx2go1ZSDt5WnLWeKmezxtGJxP9k-A36H8OHbRyUvCNggWt7gHIdAThvG3jHWReAkRwuXJs_kLpYVcfp6lZvbj4B2KsjyQ%21%21/","publisher":"Information & eGovernment Authority, Kingdom of Bahrain","jurisdiction":"Bahrain","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"bahrain-refresh-evisa-faq-direct-visa-default","title":"Bahrain eVisa: Frequently Asked Questions","url":"https://www.evisa.gov.bh/VisaBhr7En.html","publisher":"Nationality, Passports & Residence Affairs / Ministry of Interior","jurisdiction":"Bahrain","kind":"official-portal","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}