Other foreign ordinary passports: advance consular visa required
For these ordinary passports, Kosovo's MFA gives an express visa-required complement and requires an in-person application to the relevant diplomatic or consular mission before a visit or transit.
- The MFA's express complement, not mere omission from a list, supports this baseline. The application must be submitted in person to the relevant Kosovo diplomatic or consular mission; no eVisa, ETA, or nationality-wide arrival-visa route is established.
- The published process requires an original application, travel document, purpose, accommodation or means, insurance, and other supporting evidence. Possession of a visa does not automatically confer entry.
- A valid biometric Schengen residence permit or valid multiple-entry Schengen visa can create a separate 15-day document-conditioned exemption. It does not change this passport-only baseline.
- Russia is expressly excluded from that Schengen-document exception by the Gazette decision. Diplomatic, official, refugee, stateless, UN/NATO/OSCE/EU travel-document, identity-card, residence, work, and transit-specific routes are outside this classification.
Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora of the Republic of Kosovo: Kosovo VisasGovernment of the Republic of Kosovo: Decision No. 21/216 amending Government Decision No. 15/158Official Gazette of the Republic of Kosovo: Government decisions, 99th meeting: suspension of Russia exceptionsMinistry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo: Information for foreign citizens entering the Republic of Kosovo