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French West Indies visa requirements

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

Access data checked October 8, 202628 official sources collected
Visa-free92Visa required103Unknown4
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199 passports

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92

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103

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  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

    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

    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: Overseas visasFrance-Visas, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas: France and the Schengen Area
  3. 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
  4. Current official routeVisa-free

    French West Indies aggregate: shared ordinary-passport visa-free short visits

    The current Guadeloupe/Martinique and Saint-Martin/Saint-Barthélemy Annex II schedules each waive a short-stay visa for these ordinary passports; the aggregate result is visa-free only where all four constituent territories have the same nationality baseline.

    • For this upstream aggregate, French West Indies means Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. The two governing orders are separate; this policy retains only ordinary-passport waivers common to both territorial schedules.
    • The ordinary visitor waiver is for no more than 90 days in any 180-day period unless the row states a narrower limit. Dominica and Saint Lucia are limited in every constituent territory to stays of no more than 15 days and 120 cumulative days in 12 months.
    • Brazil is visa-free for Guadeloupe and Martinique and separately for Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy; the French-Guiana exception does not alter this aggregate. Australia, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Singapore, the United States and Venezuela retain the schedules' paid-activity/work-authorisation exception.
    • This is a nationality-and-ordinary-passport visitor baseline only. It does not establish work, residence, paid activity, transit, cruise, biometric/document-specific, diplomatic, official/service, special-document or final-admission treatment. A Schengen visa alone is not sufficient for these territories.
    55 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, Brazil, Dominica, St. Lucia

    Official sourcesFrench Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals: French Interior Ministry: visas for overseas FranceFrance-Visas, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas: overseas short-stay visaLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: Guadeloupe and Martinique entry visasLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy entry visas
  5. Current official routeVisa required

    French West Indies aggregate: other ordinary passports require an advance overseas-territory visa

    For the remaining cleanly modelled ordinary-passport codes, neither current territorial Annex II gives an unconditional nationality waiver across Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. An overseas-territory visa is required through the normal pre-travel route; a narrowly discretionary border visa does not create a nationality entitlement.

    • The result is the ordinary visitor baseline across all four constituent territories, not a Schengen classification. The normal visa route is territory-specific and pre-travel; a narrowly exceptional, discretionary border visa does not alter this baseline. A Schengen short-stay visa alone does not authorize entry.
    • Bahrain, Belarus, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Thailand may have a separate waiver when the traveller holds the specified valid French-consular multiple-entry visa (six months to five years). That third-document condition does not change this ordinary-passport baseline.
    • Valid French/Schengen residence or long-stay documents, cruise/transit treatment, diplomatic and service passports, and other individual exceptions remain conditional and are not normalized into this policy.
    103 passport nationalities covered

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

    Official sourcesFrench Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals: French Interior Ministry: visas for overseas FranceFrance-Visas, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas: overseas short-stay visaLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: Guadeloupe and Martinique entry visasLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy entry visas
  6. 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

    Official sourcesAgency for Identification Documents, Registers and Data Exchange of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Passport of Bosnia and HerzegovinaParliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina / IDDEEA: Law on Amendments to the Law on Travel Documents of Bosnia and HerzegovinaLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Current Annex II: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Réunion entry visasLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Current Annex II: Mayotte entry visasLégifrance, 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 CaledoniaLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy entry visas
  7. 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

    Official sourcesPublic Services Agency of the Republic of Moldova: Issuance of the Moldovan citizen passportEmbassy of the Republic of Moldova in Germany, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Biometric passport for travel abroadPublic Services Agency of the Republic of Moldova: New Moldovan passport models from 5 FebruaryLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Current Annex II: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Réunion entry visasLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Current Annex II: Mayotte entry visasLégifrance, 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 CaledoniaLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy entry visas
  8. Current official routeVisa-free

    Albanian standard ordinary biometric passports: French West Indies visa-free visit

    Both current French West Indies Annex II rule families waive Albanian biometric passports, and Albania's current ordinary-passport population is entirely biometric.

    • FW is the intersection of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. Each current Annex II waives Albanian biometric passport holders for a short visitor stay.
    • Albania's ordinary passport is statutorily biometric. Any non-biometric ordinary document pre-dates the 2010 biometric regime and cannot survive its five- or ten-year statutory term on 25 August 2026; later emergency or accelerated ordinary issuance is biometric.
    • The uniform short-stay cap is 90 days in any 180-day period. Work, residence, transit, Schengen travel, special travel documents, passport validity and final admission are outside this policy.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Albania

    Official sourcesFrench Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals: French Interior Ministry: overseas visasLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 26 July 2011: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Annex IILégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 18 April 2012: Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin entry documents and visas, Annex IIOfficial Publications Centre of the Republic of Albania: Law No. 8668: issue of Albanian citizens' passports for travel abroad (consolidated)Official Gazette of the Republic of Albania / Ministry of Interior: Interior Minister Instruction No. 93/2024: procedure for ordinary biometric passports
  9. Current official routeVisa-free

    Montenegrin standard ordinary biometric passports: French West Indies visa-free visit

    Both current French West Indies Annex II rule families waive Montenegrin biometric passports, and all current standard ordinary Montenegrin passports are electronic biometric passports.

    • FW is the intersection of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. Each current Annex II waives Montenegrin biometric passport holders for a short visitor stay.
    • The governing passport law makes the ordinary passport an electronic document with a facial-photo and two-fingerprint chip. The ten-year, under-four child two-year and temporarily-unobtainable-fingerprint one-year variants remain that statutory passport; return certificates and special documents are excluded. Former-FRY-form passports have been invalid since 31 December 2009.
    • The uniform short-stay cap is 90 days in any 180-day period. Work, residence, transit, Schengen travel, special travel documents, passport validity and final admission are outside this policy.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Montenegro

    Official sourcesFrench Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals: French Interior Ministry: overseas visasLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 26 July 2011: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Annex IILégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 18 April 2012: Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin entry documents and visas, Annex IIMinistry of the Interior, Government of Montenegro: Law on Travel Documents of Montenegro, consolidated through 146/2021Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Montenegro: Archived MFA travel-documents guidance: former-FRY passport expiry
  10. Current official routeVisa-free

    North Macedonian standard ordinary biometric passports: French West Indies visa-free visit

    Both current French West Indies Annex II rule families waive North Macedonian biometric passports, and no currently valid standard ordinary North Macedonian passport remains non-biometric.

    • FW is the intersection of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. Each current Annex II waives North Macedonian biometric passport holders for a short visitor stay.
    • North Macedonian issuer material specifies the ordinary passport's biometric enrolment and age-based 10/5/2-year terms. The current official civil-document record says every passport has been biometric since April 2012, so any non-biometric ordinary passport expired no later than April 2022; earlier Republic-of-Macedonia passports are invalid for international travel from 13 February 2024.
    • The uniform short-stay cap is 90 days in any 180-day period. Work, residence, transit, Schengen travel, emergency, temporary, group, diplomatic, service, refugee, alien and other special-document routes, passport validity and final admission are outside this policy.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    North Macedonia

    Official sourcesFrench Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals: French Interior Ministry: overseas visasLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 26 July 2011: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Annex IILégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 18 April 2012: Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin entry documents and visas, Annex IIMinistry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of the Republic of North Macedonia: Frequently asked questionsMinistry of Interior of the Republic of North Macedonia: Public document-validity certificatesU.S. Department of State: North Macedonia: passport and other travel documents