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French Polynesia visa requirements

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

Access data checked August 24, 202612 official sources collected
Visa-free96Visa required103
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199 passports

Visa-free

96

Visa required

103
Policy history

Official evidence timeline

One group agreement or destination policy can support many passport relationships. Dates are recorded only when an official source establishes them.

  1. 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

    Official sourcesFrance-Visas, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas: overseas short-stay visaFrench Ministry of the Interior: Ministry of the Interior: visas for overseas France
  2. 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

    Official sourcesFrance-Visas, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas Colombia: short stays in overseas territoriesFrance-Visas, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas: France and the Schengen Area
  3. Current official routeVisa-free

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

    Current France-Visas guidance expressly exempts EU, EEA and Swiss nationals from overseas-territory visas. FR is represented as visa_free rather than citizenship because the destinations are territorial catalog codes PF and NC.

    • Ordinary passport held as a citizen of the listed EU, EEA or Swiss state; up to 90 days.
    • This records only the short visitor visa result, not residence, employment, family-member residence cards, identity-document alternatives, transit, special passports or final admission.
    • French Polynesia and New Caledonia are outside Schengen and remain separately scoped destinations.
    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

    Official sourcesFrance-Visas, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas: Short-stay visas for non-European French territoriesFrench Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals: French Ministry of the Interior: visas for overseas FranceFrance-Visas, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas: France in the Schengen area
  4. Current official routeVisa-free

    Named Annex II ordinary passports: visa-free short visits

    The current French Polynesia and New Caledonia Annex II schedules expressly exempt these passport nationalities without a biometric, residence, visa, cruise, work or special-document qualifier.

    • For a short visitor stay of up to three months in each six-month period.
    • GB records the ordinary United Kingdom baseline; separate named British non-British-Citizen document statuses are not mapped to the catalog.
    • The schedules separately mention New Zealand passport holders from Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau; that document condition is not mapped to CK or NU catalog codes.
    47 passport nationalities covered

    Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, Fiji, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Kiribati, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Monaco, Nauru, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Palau Islands, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, United Kingdom, St. Kitts and Nevis, San Marino, Vatican City, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Seychelles, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uruguay, Micronesia

    Official sourcesLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 29 December 2011: entry documents and visas for French PolynesiaLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 22 July 2011: entry documents and visas for New Caledonia
  5. Current official routeVisa-free

    Named ordinary passports: visitor visa-free treatment with work exception

    The current schedules expressly waive visas for ordinary visitor travel by these nationalities, with a narrow listed exception for certain paid activities lacking the required work authorisation.

    • Short tourism or other non-remunerated visitor entry up to three months per six-month period.
    • Excludes the schedule's paid-activity/work-authorisation exception, residence, transit, diplomatic, service and special-document routes.
    • The U.S. extension for American Samoa and Guam applies only when the traveler holds a U.S. passport; it is not mapped to AS or GU catalog codes.
    8 passport nationalities covered

    Australia, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Singapore, United States, Venezuela

    Official sourcesLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 29 December 2011: entry documents and visas for French PolynesiaLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 22 July 2011: entry documents and visas for New Caledonia
  6. Current official routeVisa-free

    Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR passports: visa-free short visits

    Both current schedules separately name the Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR passport documents; they do not grant the same rule to a PRC ordinary passport.

    • Only a Hong Kong SAR or Macao SAR passport respectively; up to three months in each six-month period.
    • Excludes PRC passport, Taiwan identity-number, residence-permit, cruise, transit, work, diplomatic, service and special-document routes.
    2 passport nationalities covered

    Hong Kong (SAR China), Macao (SAR China)

    Official sourcesLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 29 December 2011: entry documents and visas for French PolynesiaLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 22 July 2011: entry documents and visas for New Caledonia
  7. Current official routeVisa required

    Other ordinary passports: territory-specific advance visa required

    For the remaining catalog ordinary passports, the two current orders require a valid territory-specific visa unless the traveler qualifies for a separately specified exemption. The required visa is a physical vignette, so it is normalized as advance visa rather than eVisa.

    • Short visitor baseline only. A Schengen visa alone is insufficient; the visa must be valid for the requested overseas territory.
    • Residence permits, long-stay visas, French multi-entry visas, cruise conditions, transit, diplomatic, service, official and other special-document exemptions remain conditional and are not normalized as nationality-wide visitor access.
    • For Vanuatu, the listed ordinary-passport waiver is limited to passports issued before 25 May 2015; the current entry order also requires a travel document issued less than ten years earlier, so it cannot support a current ordinary-passport waiver.
    • No eVisa or ETA is inferred from France-Visas' online application workflow.
    103 passport nationalities covered

    Georgia, Russian Federation, Qatar, Türkiye, Belize, South Africa, Ecuador, Kuwait, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Vanuatu, Bahrain, Guyana, Kosovo, Oman, Jamaica, Botswana, China, 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

    Official sourcesLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 29 December 2011: entry documents and visas for French PolynesiaLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 22 July 2011: entry documents and visas for New CaledoniaFrance-Visas, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas: Short-stay visas for non-European French territoriesFrench Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals: French Ministry of the Interior: visas for overseas FranceLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 28 May 2025 removing Georgia's French Polynesia exemptionLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 28 May 2025 removing Georgia's New Caledonia exemption
  8. 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)

    Official sourceBureau of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan): Taiwan MOFA BOCA: destinations available visa-free, visa on arrival, or by eVisa