Foreign ordinary passports: mandatory electronic travel authorization
The SCAA AIC introduced eTA for foreign passports; the later current SCAA AIP states that all arriving passengers must obtain eTA and all visas are issued online. The later all-arrivals rule controls because it does not reproduce the earlier named exceptions.
- Apply through the Electronic Travel Authorization System before travel and present a valid eTA; the current AIP says all arriving passengers must do so, and the AIC warns that failure where required may result in denial of boarding or entry.
- ICA describes tourist visa as one of its entry-permit categories and says the permit may be a letter, stamp or sticker. The eTA rule does not establish stay duration, entry count, fee, work, residence, business-only, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, UNLP, multiple-visa, residence-permit or other special-document routes.
- The earlier 3 September 2025 AIC names Rwanda/Malaysia as visa-free and eleven ordinary-passport nationalities as visa-on-arrival. The later current AIP, effective 27 November 2025, instead says all visas are issued online and all arriving passengers need eTA, without preserving an exception list. This temporal official-source conflict is resolved conservatively in favour of the later all-arrivals operational rule and requires recheck.
198 passport nationalities covered
Afghanistan, Rwanda, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Djibouti, Mauritania, Tanzania, Uganda, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Comoro Islands, Albania, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo (Rep.), Congo (Dem. Rep.), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong (SAR China), Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao (SAR China), North Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau Islands, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, eSwatini, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, Andorra, Palestinian Territory