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Nauru visa requirements

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

Access data checked August 24, 20265 official sources collected
Citizenship1Visa-free2Visa on arrival14Visa required182
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199 passports

Citizenship

1

Visa-free

2

Visa on arrival

14

Visa required

182
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 routeCitizenship

    Nauruan nationals: outside foreign visitor-visa scope

    Nauru's visa requirement expressly applies to non-citizens, so an NR ordinary-passport holder is modelled as citizenship rather than a foreign visitor route.

    • This is a same-country citizenship normalization. It does not determine a dual national's treatment when presenting a different passport, nor passport, security, departure, residence, removal, or individual-admissibility decisions.
    • The cited provision establishes the foreign-national visa scope; it is not an inference from a visitor form or an arrival procedure.
    1 passport nationalities covered

    Nauru

    Official sourceRepublic of Nauru Online Legal Database: Immigration Act 2014 (current consolidation)
  2. Current official routeVisa-free

    Russian and Spanish ordinary passports: visa waiver

    The current statutory visa-waiver schedule names Russia and Spain without a passport-type limitation, unlike its expressly limited diplomatic, official, service, or public-affairs entries.

    • The Regulations exempt a national of a listed visa-waiver-agreement country only for the period and circumstances specified in the relevant agreement. Neither a duration nor agreement-specific eligibility conditions are reproduced here.
    • The schedule expressly limits Japan, China, India, and Cuba to specified diplomatic, official, service, or public-affairs passport categories. Those limitations are preserved and do not create ordinary-passport waivers for those codes.
    • This does not establish treatment of residence, employment, media, research, transit, crew, emergency, special-purpose, refugee, or other special-document routes.
    2 passport nationalities covered

    Russian Federation, Spain

    Official sourcesRepublic of Nauru Online Legal Database: Immigration Regulations 2014 (current consolidation)Government Gazette, Republic of Nauru: Immigration (Amendment) Regulations 2025
  3. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    Named ordinary passports: fee-exempt visitor visa on arrival

    The named Schedule 3 nationalities may request the visitor visa on entry without completing an application form; this is a border-issued visitor visa, not visa-free admission.

    • Regulations 5(4) and 12(2)(a) allow a national covered by Regulation 16(4) to request a visitor visa on entry without any application form. Schedule 3 identifies these fee-exempt nationalities; Russia is excluded here because its separate waiver is the easier route.
    • Visitor visas are for holiday, visiting friends or relatives, listed meetings, cultural or sporting activities, or another purpose the Director considers appropriate; they are single-entry and may not exceed three months.
    • The applicant must hold an onward ticket and required destination documents, have no expected condition breach, and show support if requested. The visitor route excludes business-visa activities and non-normal religious activity.
    • China's Schedule 5 waiver is expressly limited to diplomatic, service, or public-affairs passports. It does not displace the ordinary Chinese passport's Schedule 3 arrival-visitor-visa route.
    • Cook Islands and Niue are named in Schedule 3 but are outside this repository's 199-passport manifest; no relationship is invented for either.
    14 passport nationalities covered

    Micronesia, Fiji, Israel, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau Islands, Papua New Guinea, China, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

    Official sourceRepublic of Nauru Online Legal Database: Immigration Regulations 2014 (current consolidation)
  4. Current official routeVisa required

    Other ordinary foreign passports: advance visitor visa

    Every remaining foreign ordinary passport requires a valid visa, and the visitor-visa regulation expressly requires the application before entry for every applicant outside the named arrival cohort.

    • This is the express statutory residual: the Act requires a visa for every non-citizen, while Regulation 12(2)(b) requires advance application for every visitor applicant outside the Regulation 16(4) arrival cohort. It is not inferred from omission from a list or application form.
    • A visitor visa is a pre-entry visa, not an eVisa. Form 7 permits online lodging, but the Regulations describe an application process and pre-arrival evidence of a granted visa; they do not state electronic visa issuance or create an eVisa category.
    • Australia and New Zealand applicants must provide a Nauruan-citizen sponsorship letter. That sponsorship condition is retained and does not create a separate status, exemption, or arrival route.
    • Japan, India, and Cuba have only passport-type-limited Schedule 5 waivers; Taiwan has no current Schedule 3 or Schedule 5 ordinary-passport entry route after the 2024 Schedule 3 substitution of the People's Republic of China. These special-document and historical entries do not alter this ordinary-passport policy.
    • Media, business, employment, research, residence, dependant, regional-processing-centre, long-term-stay, special-purpose, emergency, transit, crew, and citizenship routes are outside this short-tourist classification. Admission and visa grant remain discretionary under the Act and Regulations.
    182 passport nationalities covered

    Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Malaysia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Greece, Malta, Australia, Canada, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, United Arab Emirates, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Iceland, United States, Liechtenstein, Croatia, Monaco, Bulgaria, Romania, Chile, Cyprus, Andorra, Argentina, Hong Kong (SAR China), Brazil, San Marino, Barbados, Brunei, The Bahamas, St. Kitts and Nevis, Mexico, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, Antigua and Barbuda, Seychelles, Mauritius, Vatican City, Costa Rica, Grenada, Panama, Paraguay, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, Dominica, Macao (SAR China), Peru, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Serbia, Guatemala, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Georgia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Venezuela, Qatar, Türkiye, Belize, South Africa, Timor-Leste, Ecuador, Kuwait, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Guyana, Kosovo, Oman, Jamaica, Botswana, Belarus, Bolivia, Suriname, Indonesia, Lesotho, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Dominican Republic, eSwatini, Malawi, Morocco, Azerbaijan, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, 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 sourcesRepublic of Nauru Online Legal Database: Immigration Act 2014 (current consolidation)Republic of Nauru Online Legal Database: Immigration Regulations 2014 (current consolidation)Government Gazette, Republic of Nauru: Immigration (Amendment) Regulations 2025Government Gazette, Republic of Nauru: Immigration (Amendment) Regulations 2024Department of Justice and Border Control, Immigration Division: Immigration Division