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Algeria visa requirements

Current entry categories for 199 passport nationalities, paired with official evidence as it is reviewed.

Access data checked August 24, 20267 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free8Visa required190
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

8

Visa required

190
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  1. Current official routeVisa-free

    Named ordinary passports: Algeria visa-free short visit

    The current official MFA diplomatic-post schedule expressly sets an all-non-Algerian default and names these ordinary nationalities as its visa-exempt exceptions. This is a direct nationality schedule, not a conclusion from an online application channel or from an omitted country.

    • The schedule names nationals, while separately listing diplomatic and official-passport exemptions. This policy is therefore limited to ordinary passport nationality and does not extend special-document privileges to other passports.
    • No current official source in this batch states a nationality-wide exemption duration, ports, fee, onward-ticket, accommodation, health or extension rule. Admission, public-order and security decisions remain case-specific.
    • The Dublin MFA mission page omits Morocco, but two separate current MFA-post schedules (Oslo and London) expressly include it in the same closed ordinary-nationality list. Morocco is assigned on that corroborated direct evidence; the unexplained Dublin omission remains a source-quality risk.
    • The official Grand Sud organized-tourist arrival measure and the separate Algerian-national/foreign-passport document exception are conditional routes, not ordinary passport-nationality exemptions.
    • Work, residence, family, medical, study, business-only, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, refugee and stateless-document routes are outside this ordinary short-visitor baseline. The law remains subject to international agreements and reciprocity.
    8 passport nationalities covered

    Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Seychelles, Tunisia

    Official sourcesEmbassy of Algeria in Oslo: Embassy of Algeria in Oslo: Entry visa nationality scheduleConsulate General of Algeria in London: Consulate General of Algeria in London: Entry visa to AlgeriaOfficial Journal of the Algerian Republic: Law No. 08-11 on entry, residence and movement of foreigners
  2. Current official routeVisa required

    All other ordinary passports: Algeria advance consular visitor visa

    The MFA schedule expressly answers that all non-Algerians require a visa except its closed named exemption list. Combined with the central MFA instruction to obtain that visa before travel from a diplomatic or consular post, this establishes the remaining ordinary-passport complement as visa_required, not evisa or visa_on_arrival.

    • This is the central MFA's advance diplomatic-or-consular process. Downloadable application forms are not electronic visa issuance, and no current official source reviewed here establishes an ordinary-passport visa-on-arrival or eVisa alternative for this cohort.
    • The central MFA guidance requires a passport valid at least six months, travel-assistance/repatriation insurance, photos and the purpose-specific documents; tourist applicants need legalized accommodation, hotel booking or a travel-agency attestation. The competent mission is normally the applicant's place of habitual residence.
    • The law sets a maximum consular-visa validity of two years and a maximum stay of 90 days per entry; actual type, duration, entries, fee, grant, extension and admission remain visa- and case-specific. It also requires sufficient means and permits refusal on public-order, State-security or fundamental-interest grounds.
    • The official Great South measure offers an arrival regularisation visa only to foreign tourist groups travelling through an organized tourism framework, with a stay no longer than 30 days. Its route, agency and case conditions do not establish nationality-wide visa-on-arrival access.
    • Do not apply this passport-nationality baseline to holders of diplomatic, official, service, crew, UN or other special documents, to residents or workers, to family and other purpose-specific visas, to transit or border regularisation, or to an Algerian national travelling with a foreign passport and separate Algerian biometric passport or identity document. Those are conditional/document cases, not an ordinary foreign-passport nationality route.
    190 passport nationalities covered

    Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Malta, United Kingdom, Hungary, New Zealand, Poland, Australia, Canada, Czechia, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, United States, Croatia, Iceland, Monaco, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Chile, Hong Kong (SAR China), Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, San Marino, Barbados, Brunei, Israel, St. Kitts and Nevis, The Bahamas, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, Mexico, Antigua and Barbuda, Vatican City, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Grenada, Panama, Paraguay, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Macao (SAR China), Ukraine, Dominica, Peru, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Serbia, Solomon Islands, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Samoa, Tonga, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Montenegro, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Tuvalu, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kiribati, Micronesia, Palau Islands, Moldova, Russian Federation, Venezuela, Qatar, Türkiye, Belize, South Africa, Kuwait, Timor-Leste, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Fiji, Bahrain, Vanuatu, Guyana, Nauru, China, Jamaica, Kosovo, Oman, Botswana, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Bolivia, Belarus, Suriname, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Namibia, eSwatini, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Azerbaijan, Ghana, Rwanda, The Gambia, Philippines, Uganda, Zambia, Armenia, Cape Verde Islands, Benin, Mongolia, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Kyrgyzstan, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Togo, Cuba, Gabon, India, Niger, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Tajikistan, Comoro Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Chad, Liberia, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo (Rep.), Vietnam, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Bhutan, Haiti, Laos, Djibouti, Nigeria, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Myanmar, Turkmenistan, Ethiopia, Lebanon, South Sudan, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Eritrea, Iran, Palestinian Territory, Bangladesh, North Korea, Nepal, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

    Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs, National Community Abroad and African Affairs: Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Entry visa to AlgeriaEmbassy of Algeria in Oslo: Embassy of Algeria in Oslo: Entry visa nationality scheduleOfficial Journal of the Algerian Republic: Law No. 08-11 on entry, residence and movement of foreignersEmbassy of Algeria in Brussels: Embassy of Algeria in Brussels: Great South tourist visa measureEmbassy of Algeria in Brussels: Embassy of Algeria in Brussels: Algerian nationals holding foreign passports
  3. Current official routeCitizenship

    Algerian citizens: national-passport return

    The Interior Ministry's current national-passport guidance directly states that the document permits its holder to leave Algeria or return to it under the applicable law. The same-country ordinary-passport pair is therefore citizenship, not a foreign visitor-visa classification.

    • This records only the citizen return function of an Algerian national passport. It does not decide passport issuance or validity, dual nationality, identity checks, customs, health, criminal process, security screening or other border formalities.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Algeria

    Official sourceMinistry of Interior, Local Authorities and Transport: Ministry of Interior: National passport