{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"ME","name":"Montenegro","slug":"montenegro"},"destination":{"code":"YT","name":"Mayotte"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-25","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"montenegro-standard-ordinary-biometric-passports-french-overseas-visa-free-2026","title":"Montenegrin standard ordinary passports: visa-free French overseas short visits","summary":"Every currently valid standard Montenegrin ordinary passport meets the biometric-passport predicate in each named French territorial Annex II, so it is visa-free for the ordinary short-visitor route.","status":"visa_free","conditions":["Scope is only the standard passport issued to a Montenegrin citizen under the Travel Documents Law. The current law calls it an electronic public document and requires its chip to contain the facial photograph and two fingerprints; it identifies those as biometric data used at border crossing.","The law fixes standard validity at ten years, two years for a child under four, and one year where fingerprints are temporarily unobtainable. Those are still the statutory electronic passport, not a separate emergency or temporary travel-document class; the return-only travel certificate is expressly distinct and excluded.","The former Yugoslav passport is not a current counterexample: the Government's consular guidance records that FRY-form passports ceased to be valid on 31 December 2009. No extension route is used; a replacement is a newly issued statutory electronic passport.","The cited French Guiana, Réunion, Mayotte, French Polynesia and New Caledonia orders are separately applied. GF, RE and YT allow up to 90 days in 180 days; PF and NC allow three months in six months, subject to any more favourable circulation agreement and final admission.","Work, residence permits, third-country visas, transit, diplomatic/service, refugee/alien, seaman, identity-card and travel-certificate routes are outside this ordinary short-visitor baseline."],"sourceIds":["montenegro-interior-current-travel-documents-law-2025","montenegro-mfa-biometric-passport-and-legacy-expiry","france-drom-current-annex-ii-montenegro","france-mayotte-current-annex-ii-montenegro","france-polynesia-current-annex-ii-montenegro","france-new-caledonia-current-annex-ii-montenegro"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"montenegro-interior-current-travel-documents-law-2025","title":"Law on Travel Documents of Montenegro, consolidated through 146/2021","url":"https://wapi.gov.me/download/8944af92-331c-4098-a6a6-0dc38b27d784?version=1.0","publisher":"Ministry of the Interior, Government of Montenegro","jurisdiction":"Montenegro","kind":"law","language":"Montenegrin","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"},{"id":"montenegro-mfa-biometric-passport-and-legacy-expiry","title":"Archived MFA travel-documents guidance: biometric passport and former-FRY passport expiry","url":"https://www.gov.me/cyr/clanak/putne-isprave","publisher":"Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Montenegro","jurisdiction":"Montenegro","kind":"government-guidance","language":"Montenegrin","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"},{"id":"france-drom-current-annex-ii-montenegro","title":"Current Annex II: French Guiana and Réunion visa exemption","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-montenegro","title":"Current Annex II: Mayotte visa exemption","url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000051759443/2026-05-02","publisher":"Légifrance, French Government legal-publication service","jurisdiction":"France / Mayotte","kind":"law","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"},{"id":"france-polynesia-current-annex-ii-montenegro","title":"Current Annex II: French Polynesia visa exemption","url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000045769438","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-montenegro","title":"Current Annex II: New Caledonia visa exemption","url":"https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000051759426/2026-02-21","publisher":"Légifrance, French Government legal-publication service","jurisdiction":"France / New Caledonia","kind":"law","language":"French","reviewedAt":"2026-08-25"}]}