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New Caledonia visa requirements

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

Access data checked October 8, 202643 official sources collected
Visa-free94Visa required103Unknown2
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199 passports

Visa-free

94

Visa required

103

Unknown

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Policy history

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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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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

    Official sourcesOfficial 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 passportsMinistry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania: Application for passport or identity cardFrench 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 4 February 2015: Mayotte entry documents and visas, Annex IILégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 29 December 2011: French Polynesia entry documents and visas, Annex IILégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 22 July 2011: New Caledonia entry documents and visas, Annex II
  12. 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

    Official sourcesMinistry 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: biometric passport and former-FRY passport expiryLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: French Guiana and Réunion visa exemptionLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: Mayotte visa exemptionLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: French Polynesia visa exemptionLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: New Caledonia visa exemption
  13. 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

    Official sourcesMinistry 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 documentsLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: French Guiana 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: French Polynesia entry documents and visasLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Order of 22 July 2011: New Caledonia entry documents and visas