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St. Helena 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
Visa on arrival86eVisa113
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199 passports

Visa on arrival

86

eVisa

113
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  1. Current official routeeVisa

    St Helena: named ordinary passports requiring advance eVisa

    The current St Helena Immigration Service FAQ expressly lists these passport nationalities as requiring an eVisa applied for in advance. The authority says there is no visa-on-arrival facility for this cohort.

    • The Immigration Service’s current FAQ expressly names this closed passport-nationality cohort as requiring an eVisa applied for in advance; it says there is no visa-on-arrival facility at St Helena Airport.
    • The online eVisa route is limited to travel of up to 183 days. A decision remains subject to the authority’s application and admissibility checks and does not guarantee admission.
    • The passport used for travel ordinarily needs at least six months validity at entry. Temporary, emergency, diplomatic, official, service, special, refugee, stateless, former-state, St Helenian-status, residence, work, crew, transit and third-country-route treatment is excluded.
    111 passport nationalities covered

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

    Official sourcesSt Helena Immigration Service: St Helena eVisa: frequently asked questions and current visa-national scheduleSt Helena Immigration Service: St Helena eVisa application
  2. Current official routeeVisa

    St Helena: Croatian and Slovenian ordinary passports under the former-Yugoslavia eVisa category

    The current Immigration Service FAQ separately identifies territories formerly comprising the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as requiring an advance eVisa. This maps the remaining catalog ordinary passports in that direct category: Croatia and Slovenia.

    • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia are separately named in the authority’s country list; this narrow policy records the two remaining current catalog ordinary-passport codes covered by the FAQ’s separate former-Yugoslavia category.
    • The FAQ requires an eVisa applied for in advance and says there is no visa-on-arrival facility for visa nationals.
    • Former-state travel documents, residence, work, crew, transit, diplomatic, official, service, special, St Helenian-status and other individual exceptions are excluded.
    2 passport nationalities covered

    Croatia, Slovenia

    Official sourcesSt Helena Immigration Service: St Helena eVisa: frequently asked questions and current visa-national scheduleSt Helena Government: St Helena Government Immigration Policy
  3. Current official routeVisa on arrival

    St Helena: non-visa ordinary passports receive short-term entry permit at the border

    St Helena Government says non-visa nationals may arrive without an advance short-term entry permit and that the permit is issued at the border. The arrival-issued permission is normalized as visa_on_arrival, while retaining the authority’s own non-visa terminology.

    • This is not a literal visa-on-arrival: it is the current arrival-issued Short Term Entry Permit normalized to visa_on_arrival because the applicable visitor permission is issued at the border.
    • The Government’s current policy expressly defines non-visa nationals against its Annex 3 visa-national schedule and says they can arrive without an advance short-term permit; this policy uses that stated complement rather than omission alone.
    • The permit may be granted for a visit not exceeding 183 days. It requires a valid passport, intended departure, pre-arranged accommodation, sufficient funds and medical-evacuation insurance; the current stated entry fee is GBP 20.
    • The immigration officer retains discretion. Criminal-conviction, passport-validity, health, admission, work, residence, long-term, landing-permission, transit, crew, diplomatic, official, service, special-document, St Helenian-status, and Ascension or Tristan da Cunha arrangements are excluded. British nationality or status categories other than the catalog’s ordinary GB passport are also outside this baseline.
    86 passport nationalities covered

    Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Malaysia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Greece, Malta, Australia, Canada, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, United States, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Bulgaria, Romania, Chile, Cyprus, Andorra, Argentina, Hong Kong (SAR China), Brazil, San Marino, Barbados, Brunei, Israel, 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, Dominica, Macao (SAR China), Guatemala, Solomon Islands, El Salvador, Samoa, Tonga, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Nicaragua, Tuvalu, Micronesia, Kiribati, Palau Islands, Belize, South Africa, Timor-Leste, Maldives, Vanuatu, Nauru, Botswana, Papua New Guinea, Namibia

    Official sourcesSt Helena Government: St Helena Government Immigration PolicySt Helena Government Immigration Service: St Helena Government: Short Term Entry PermitUK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: GOV.UK travel advice: St Helena entry requirements