Ordinary passports outside the statutory visa-national schedule
The 2025 Ordinance replaces the visa schedule and subjects passports issued by its listed countries and territories to a visa requirement. For the ordinary-passport nationalities omitted from that exhaustive passport-nationality schedule, no visitor visa is required; a separate visitor permit remains mandatory for admission.
- This is a visa exemption only: every ordinary short visitor remains subject to a visitor permit and the Immigration Officer's admission decision.
- A visitor permit is normally stamped and applied for on arrival; it is not a visa on arrival or an electronic travel authorisation.
- A permit issued without referral is normally valid for up to one month; longer stays require the published advance/referral process.
- Visitors must show onward travel or funds, booked accommodation, sufficient funds, and medical-evacuation insurance; visitor-permit holders may not take employment.
- This nationality baseline does not displace the statute's separate transit, emergency, UN travel-document, permit-holder, right-of-abode, watch-list, document, purpose, or individual-admission rules.
90 passport nationalities covered
Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Greece, Malta, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Iceland, Lithuania, Slovenia, United Arab Emirates, United States, Estonia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Croatia, Monaco, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania, Chile, Andorra, Hong Kong (SAR China), Argentina, Brazil, San Marino, Barbados, Brunei, Israel, The Bahamas, Mexico, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Uruguay, Seychelles, Antigua and Barbuda, Vatican City, Mauritius, Costa Rica, Panama, St. Lucia, Grenada, Paraguay, Peru, Macao (SAR China), Solomon Islands, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Samoa, Guatemala, Marshall Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nicaragua, Kiribati, Micronesia, Palau Islands, Qatar, Belize, Kuwait, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Nauru, Guyana, Bahrain, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Botswana, Palestinian Territory