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French Guiana visa requirements

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

Access data checked October 8, 202645 official sources collected
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  1. – Visa-free

    Brazilian ordinary passports: temporary French Guiana visitor waiver

    A July 2026 autonomous order grants Brazilian ordinary-passport holders visa-free French Guiana short visits for up to 30 days in any 180-day period. The prefecture identifies the six-month trial as running from 31 July 2026 until 31 January 2027, subject to ordinary admission requirements and excluding commercial activity.

    • Scope is Brazilian ordinary passports for non-commercial short visitor travel to French Guiana only. It is not permission to work, reside, study or conduct commercial activity, and does not establish entry to another French territory.
    • Article 2 literally provides six months from 31 July 2026. The prefecture expressly states until 31 January 2027; that named endpoint supplies the inclusive effectiveTo, not a conversion of months into days. Renewal is possible but not established or assumed.
    • The initial order's notice and operative Article 2 name 31 July 2026, while the consolidated site's article-version metadata starts on 2 August 2026 after JORF publication on 1 August. The candidate preserves the expressly stated operational start; this metadata distinction is not concealed.
    • The prefecture requires a passport valid at least three months after the intended return to Brazil, issued less than ten years ago and containing at least two blank pages. It also requires medical-insurance evidence covering the whole stay for at least EUR 30,000, financial guarantees according to accommodation, and yellow-fever vaccination evidence.
    • Land entrants from Brazil and river arrivals at Saint-Georges must report to the border-police checkpoint at the international bridge. The waiver does not guarantee admission or remove border checks.
    • The new ordinary-passport waiver does not impose a biometric-passport, Amapá-residence, organised-tour, frontier-card or third-country-visa prerequisite. The old Annex II's narrower exceptions are not conditions of this temporary general visitor waiver.
    • For historical reconciliation, Annex II separately describes registered-agency trips shorter than fifteen days, specified air stopovers no longer than three days with onward tickets, a local 72-hour frontier-card route for eligible Oiapoque residents, and emergency-team missions. These special routes do not justify a permanent nationality-wide exemption or an automatic post-trial prior-visa conclusion.
    • France-Visas separately describes qualifying residence-permit and long-stay-visa exemptions; a generic Schengen short-stay visa is not itself permission to enter an overseas territory. Those document-based routes are not prerequisites for this Brazilian trial waiver. Recheck the operative regime before the trial ends; no successor or post-expiry status is asserted.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Brazil

  2. Current official routeVisa-free

    EU, EEA and Swiss ordinary passports: visa-free overseas short stays

    French central guidance expressly exempts EU, EEA and Swiss citizens. This records foreign ordinary-passport catalog mappings only, not French citizenship.

    • Up to 90 days; each overseas territory remains outside Schengen and has its own visa order.
    • A Schengen visa alone does not authorize overseas entry.
    • Excludes residence, work, transit, long-stay, diplomatic, official/service and special-document routes.
    30 passport nationalities covered

    Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland

  3. Current official routeVisa-free

    Colombian ordinary passports: five named territories visa-free

    France-Visas names the five destinations in the Colombian exemption. French West Indies is excluded because it is an aggregate catalog label, not the page's territorial scope.

    • Up to 90 days in any 180-day period for tourism, business or family visits.
    • No policy is inferred for the aggregate French West Indies destination.
    • Excludes work, residence, transit, diplomatic, official/service and special-document routes.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Colombia

  4. Current official routeVisa-free

    EU, EEA, Swiss and French ordinary passports: visa-free short visits

    France-Visas and the Interior Ministry directly exempt EU, EEA and Swiss citizens from overseas visas. FR is visa_free, not citizenship: GF, FW, YT and RE are territorial destination codes rather than France itself.

    • Ordinary passport held as a citizen of the listed EU, EEA or Swiss state, for a visitor stay up to 90 days.
    • This does not normalize residence, work, family-member residence cards, identity-document alternatives, transit, special passports or final admission.
    • All four catalog destinations are outside Schengen; the classification follows free-movement rights rather than a Schengen visa.
    31 passport nationalities covered

    Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland

  5. Current official routeVisa-free

    Named French Guiana ordinary passports: visa-free visitor stays

    The current DROM Annex II schedule directly waives the French Guiana visitor visa for this ordinary-passport cohort. Geographic exceptions, document-qualified waivers and paid activity remain separate.

    • Short visitor stay up to 90 days in 180 days. The work-authorisation exceptions for Australia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Singapore, the United States and Venezuela do not apply to ordinary tourism or family visits.
    • Hong Kong and Macao are SAR passport entries only, not a PRC ordinary-passport rule.
    • The schedule's passport-specific, French multi-entry-visa, residence-permit, cruise, transit, diplomatic, service, special-document and final-admission rules remain separate.
    52 passport nationalities covered

    Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Hong Kong (SAR China), Macao (SAR China), Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, United States, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Kiribati, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Monaco, Nauru, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Palau Islands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United Kingdom, St. Kitts and Nevis, San Marino, Vatican City, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uruguay, Venezuela

  6. Current official routeVisa-free

    Ecuadorian ordinary passports: visa-free French Guiana visitor stays

    The DROM Annex II expressly grants Ecuador all-passport visa exemption for French Guiana, while treating Réunion differently.

    • Short visitor stay up to 90 days in 180 days; excludes work, residence, transit, diplomatic/service and final-admission conditions.
    • This is not generalized to Réunion, Mayotte, or the aggregate French West Indies destination.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Ecuador

  7. Current official routeVisa-free

    Dominican and Saint Lucian ordinary passports: limited French Guiana visa-free visits

    The DROM Annex II directly grants Dominica and Saint Lucia a French Guiana ordinary-passport waiver only for the specified short duration.

    • Only stays of 15 days or less, within 120 cumulative days in 12 months.
    • Does not establish a waiver for a longer stay, work, residence, transit, cruise, special passport or other document condition.
    2 passport nationalities covered

    Dominica, St. Lucia

  8. Current official routeVisa required

    Other French Guiana ordinary passports: advance territory visa required

    The current DROM order requires a valid territory-specific visa unless an Annex II nationality exemption applies. This covers the ordinary-passport baseline after direct waivers and genuinely unresolved biometric rows are removed.

    • A valid visa must cover French Guiana; a Schengen visa alone does not authorize the territory. France-Visas' online workflow is application filing, not eVisa issuance.
    • French multi-entry-visa, residence-permit, long-stay visa, cruise, transit, crew, special/diplomatic/service passport and individual-admission exceptions remain conditional and do not change this ordinary-passport baseline.
    • Georgia's former Annex II exemption was removed effective June 2025. Vanuatu's waiver is restricted to pre-25-May-2015 ordinary passports, so it cannot establish a current unqualified ordinary-passport exemption.
    104 passport nationalities covered

    Georgia, Russian Federation, Qatar, Türkiye, Belize, South Africa, Kuwait, Maldives, Fiji, Saudi Arabia, Vanuatu, Bahrain, Guyana, Kosovo, Oman, Jamaica, Botswana, China, Papua New Guinea, Belarus, Thailand, Suriname, Indonesia, Lesotho, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Dominican Republic, eSwatini, Malawi, Morocco, Azerbaijan, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, The Gambia, Rwanda, Armenia, Mongolia, Philippines, Zambia, Tunisia, Uganda, Cape Verde Islands, Benin, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, São Tomé and Príncipe, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Burkina Faso, India, Madagascar, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Togo, Tajikistan, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Guinea, Mauritania, Vietnam, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Algeria, Cameroon, Comoro Islands, Congo (Rep.), Angola, Jordan, Liberia, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Bhutan, Burundi, Haiti, Laos, Egypt, Djibouti, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Lebanon, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Iran, Libya, Eritrea, North Korea, Bangladesh, Palestinian Territory, Nepal, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan

  9. Through Visa required

    Other French Guiana ordinary passports: advance territory visa required (historical: BR)

    The current DROM order requires a valid territory-specific visa unless an Annex II nationality exemption applies. This covers the ordinary-passport baseline after direct waivers and genuinely unresolved biometric rows are removed.

    • A valid visa must cover French Guiana; a Schengen visa alone does not authorize the territory. France-Visas' online workflow is application filing, not eVisa issuance.
    • French multi-entry-visa, residence-permit, long-stay visa, cruise, transit, crew, special/diplomatic/service passport and individual-admission exceptions remain conditional and do not change this ordinary-passport baseline.
    • Georgia's former Annex II exemption was removed effective June 2025. Vanuatu's waiver is restricted to pre-25-May-2015 ordinary passports, so it cannot establish a current unqualified ordinary-passport exemption.
    • Brazil's listed French Guiana exceptions are organized/brief/transit/frontier/emergency routes rather than a nationality-wide visitor waiver.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Brazil

  10. Current official routeVisa-free

    Taiwan ordinary passports: named visa-free short visits

    Taiwan MOFA BOCA's current outbound schedule places these destinations in its visa-free category for Taiwanese travellers.

    • This is the ordinary Taiwanese-passport short-visitor baseline recorded in BOCA's current visa-free schedule; destination rules, stay limits and entry conditions can change.
    • It excludes work, residence, transit-only facilities, emergency or other non-ordinary travel documents, carrier controls and individual final-admission decisions.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)

  11. Current official routeVisa-free

    Bosnia and Herzegovina ordinary passports: French overseas visa-free short visit

    All currently valid ordinary/civil Bosnia and Herzegovina passports are covered by the French biometric-passport waiver for the six scoped overseas destinations.

    • Applies to the ordinary civil Bosnia and Herzegovina passport for short visitor travel. IDDEEA identifies the civil passport as biometric; the governing passport law fixes its validity and keeps the temporary no-fingerprint route within the electronic travel-document regime.
    • The French current Annex II schedules waive Bosnia and Herzegovina biometric passports: Guadeloupe/French Guiana/Réunion, Mayotte, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and both Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. The FW aggregate is uniform because the Guadeloupe/Martinique and Saint-Martin/Saint-Barthélemy component schedules use the same Bosnia biometric-passport condition.
    • The French maximum is 90 days in 180 days for GF, FW, YT and RE, and three months in six months for PF and NC. Work, residence, transit, diplomatic, service, refugee/stateless, travel-certificate and final-admission rules are outside this ordinary visitor classification.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Bosnia and Herzegovina

  12. Current official routeVisa-free

    Moldovan ordinary passports: French overseas visa-free short visit

    All currently valid ordinary Moldovan passports are covered by the French biometric-passport waiver for the six scoped overseas destinations.

    • Applies to the ordinary Moldovan citizen passport for short visitor travel. Moldova has issued such passports exclusively with biometric data since 1 January 2011; the passport authority specifies electronic storage including facial biometric data and fixed 4/7/10-year terms.
    • No legacy extension creates a current non-biometric ordinary passport: Moldova MFA states passports are not extended, and the passport authority records that the former adult term was seven years before its 2018 increase. The child and medically impossible-fingerprint routes are still passport issuance routes with electronic biometric data; temporarily impossible fingerprints produce a one-year passport.
    • The French current Annex II schedules waive Moldovan biometric passports in Guadeloupe/French Guiana/Réunion, Mayotte, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and both Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. The FW aggregate is uniform because both its component schedules use the same Moldovan biometric-passport condition.
    • The French maximum is 90 days in 180 days for GF, FW, YT and RE, and three months in six months for PF and NC. Work, residence, transit, diplomatic, service, refugee/stateless, travel-certificate and final-admission rules are outside this ordinary visitor classification.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Moldova

  13. Current official routeVisa-free

    Albanian standard ordinary biometric passports: French overseas visa exemption

    France's current territorial Annex II orders exempt Albanian biometric passport holders. Albania's current passport law and ordinary-passport instruction establish that every still-valid standard ordinary Albanian passport is biometric.

    • Applies only to a currently valid standard ordinary Albanian passport for a short visitor stay. Diplomatic, service, emergency, temporary, refugee, alien and other special travel documents are outside this policy.
    • Albania's current passport law has required biometric security data since its 2010 amendment; it identifies ordinary passports as issued by the Ministry of Interior. The current ordinary-passport instruction and consular service issue only ordinary biometric passports, including standard child passports.
    • Legacy non-biometric ordinary passports could have been issued no later than the 2010 biometric statutory regime. The statute fixes a maximum ordinary-passport validity of ten years for applicants over 16 and five years for those under 16; therefore no such legacy ordinary passport can remain valid on 25 August 2026.
    • The only recorded extensions do not preserve a contrary current document: the 2009-10 child biometric correction ran for one additional year; the 2020-21 extension ended 30 April 2021; and the 2025 extension was only for exercising the vote on 11 May 2025, through 31 May 2025. Accelerated issue and reissue under the current instruction are still biometric ordinary passports.
    • For French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte, the current entry framework caps the waiver at 90 days in any 180-day period. For French Polynesia and New Caledonia, the territorial Annex II waiver covers three months in any six-month period, subject to any more favourable circulation agreement.
    • Work, residence, transit, Schengen travel, passport-validity requirements, proof of purpose and means, border-admission discretion and territory-specific entry controls remain separate. The waiver does not authorize entry into European France or the Schengen area.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Albania

  14. Current official routeVisa-free

    Montenegrin standard ordinary passports: visa-free French overseas short visits

    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.

    • 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.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Montenegro

  15. Current official routeVisa-free

    North Macedonian standard ordinary biometric passports: five French overseas waivers

    Every currently valid standard ordinary passport of the Republic of North Macedonia satisfies the biometric condition in the five separate current French territorial Annex II waivers.

    • This is an ordinary short-visitor passport baseline only. The current MFA passport service states a maximum validity of 10 years for age 27+, 5 years for ages 4–27, and 2 years below age 4.
    • The official current civil-document record says all North Macedonian passports have been biometric since April 2012. Therefore a non-biometric standard ordinary passport could not remain valid after April 2022; the 2026 baseline is biometric.
    • Since 13 February 2024, only passports bearing the name ‘Republic of North Macedonia’ are valid for international travel. Earlier ‘Republic of Macedonia’ passports are not part of the current ordinary-passport baseline, even if retained to show travel history or valid visas.
    • The MFA says passport applicants provide a photograph, two fingerprints and a handwritten digital signature; applicants under 12 are not fingerprinted. That child enrolment exception does not establish a separate non-biometric ordinary-passport class.
    • The Interior Ministry's CSCA page confirms Ministry-issued biometric travel documents. Emergency, temporary, group, diplomatic, service, refugee, alien and other special travel documents are not classified by this policy.
    • Each cited French territorial Annex II separately limits the waiver to a biometric passport. French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte permit stays up to 90 days per 180 days; French Polynesia and New Caledonia permit three months per six months, subject to a more favourable agreement. Activity, residence, entry-route and final-admission requirements remain applicable.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    North Macedonia