{"schemaVersion":1,"source":"live","checkedAt":"2026-10-08T03:06:05.901Z","passport":{"code":"SV","name":"El Salvador","slug":"el-salvador"},"destination":{"code":"VA","name":"Vatican City"},"status":"visa_free","evidenceLevel":"exact","supportsCurrentStatus":true,"reviewedAt":"2026-08-21","allowedStays":[],"policies":[{"id":"vatican-schengen-exempt-ordinary-passports","title":"Visa-exempt Schengen-access ordinary passports: visa-free visitor access","summary":"With the required qualifying document, these visitors are exempt from the Italian/Schengen short-stay visa needed to reach Vatican City; this route finding does not establish a separate Vatican visitor visa.","status":"visa_free","conditions":["The controlled Italian/Schengen short-stay allowance is up to 90 days in any 180-day period; it is not evidence of a separate Vatican visitor-stay maximum.","Biometric ICAO-compliant passports are required for AL, BA, GE, MK, MD, ME, UA and XK. Taiwan requires an identity-card number; HK and MO require the respective named SAR passport.","A valid travel document and the ordinary Italian external-entry conditions remain required. Residence-permit, family-member, refugee/stateless, diplomatic/official/service, minor and other document-specific rules are not flattened into this nationality baseline.","No separate Vatican eVisa, ETA or visa-on-arrival route was established by the reviewed sources. ETIAS is not operating for the Italy/Schengen access leg on the research date."],"sourceIds":["italy-mfa-vancouver-microstate-travel-guidance","italy-mfa-current-short-stay-visa-exempt-list","italy-mfa-passport-documents","eu-schengen-visa-regulation-current","vatican-lateran-treaty","eu-etias-current-operation-status"]}],"conditional":[],"sources":[{"id":"italy-mfa-vancouver-microstate-travel-guidance","title":"Visas: General Information","url":"https://consvancouver.esteri.it/it/servizi-consolari-e-visti/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero/visti/","publisher":"Consulate General of Italy in Vancouver, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation","jurisdiction":"Italy / Schengen external border","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"italy-mfa-current-short-stay-visa-exempt-list","title":"Countries exempt from short-stay visas","url":"https://www.esteri.it/en/servizi-opportunita/ingressosoggiornoinitalia/visto_ingresso/paesi_esenti_visto/","publisher":"Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation","jurisdiction":"Italy / Schengen external border","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"italy-mfa-passport-documents","title":"Passports and equivalent travel documents","url":"https://www.esteri.it/en/servizi-opportunita/ingressosoggiornoinitalia/passaporti_documenti/","publisher":"Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation","jurisdiction":"Italy / Schengen external border","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"eu-schengen-visa-regulation-current","title":"Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, consolidated 30 December 2025","url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A02018R1806-20251230","publisher":"European Union, EUR-Lex","jurisdiction":"European Union / Schengen external borders","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"vatican-lateran-treaty","title":"Treaty between the Holy See and Italy (Lateran Treaty)","url":"https://www.vaticanstate.va/phocadownload/laws-decrees/LateranTreaty.pdf","publisher":"Vatican City State / Holy See","jurisdiction":"Vatican City and Italy","kind":"law","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"},{"id":"eu-etias-current-operation-status","title":"European Travel Information and Authorisation System: current status","url":"https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen/smart-borders_en","publisher":"European Commission, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs","jurisdiction":"European Union / Schengen external borders","kind":"government-guidance","language":"English","reviewedAt":"2026-08-21"}]}