# India passport to Northern Mariana Islands: Visa required

Current access classification: **Visa required** — Traditional visa required before travel.

Access data checked August 24, 2026. Evidence status: **official evidence collected**.

This page concerns ordinary short visits unless an official source states otherwise. Authorities apply the current rule, and individual circumstances can change the applicable treatment.

## Evidence timeline

- **Current official route — Guam and CNMI: remaining foreign ordinary passports require advance visa** (Visa required)
  For every remaining catalog foreign ordinary passport not affected by the current proclamation and after the separate Bahamian, Canadian, Compact, federal VWP, G-CNMI and PRC-CNMI exceptions are removed, current 8 CFR 212.1 applies its general requirement to present a valid visa.
  - This is the ordinary short business/pleasure nationality baseline, not a finding that every person holding the passport lacks a valid U.S. visa or other immigration status.
  - Valid U.S. visas, lawful permanent residence, advance parole, humanitarian or individual documentary waivers, visas for transit/crew/work/study/residence, diplomatic/official/special passports and inadmissibility remain distinct conditional cases.
  - The rule never treats a residual passport as eligible for G-CNMI, federal VWP/ESTA, Compact or CNMI EVS-TAP merely by omission.
  - The catalog passports affected by Presidential Proclamation 10998 are deliberately unresolved because current entry and visitor-visa restrictions and their historic-visa, dual-national and other exceptions cannot be represented by one passport-wide access category.
  Official sources:
  - [U.S. Office of the Federal Register / Department of Homeland Security: 8 CFR 212.1: Documentary requirements for nonimmigrants](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-212/section-212.1)
  - [U.S. Department of State: Suspension of visa issuance to foreign nationals under Presidential Proclamation 10998](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/suspension-of-visa-issuance-to-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-security-of-the-united-states.html)
  - [The White House: Presidential Proclamation 10998: Restricting and Limiting the Entry of Foreign Nationals](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/restricting-and-limiting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-security-of-the-united-states/)
  - [U.S. Government Publishing Office: 8 U.S.C. 1101: Immigration and Nationality Act definitions](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2023-title8/pdf/USCODE-2023-title8-chap12-subchapI-sec1101.pdf)

- **Current official route — Northern Mariana Islands: explicit residual visitor-visa baseline** (Visa required)
  The current federal documentary regulation expressly requires a valid visa unless a named exception applies; this cohort is outside CNMI’s federal no-visa, VWP/ESTA, G-CNMI and EVS-TAP passport cohorts.
  - This ordinary short-visitor baseline requires a valid unexpired U.S. nonimmigrant visa and passport. Qualifying residence, special-document, crew, transit, emergency-waiver and individual immigration routes are not normalized.
  - No eVisa, routine visa-on-arrival or universal electronic authorization is established. Consular issuance and final CBP admission remain required.
  Official sources:
  - [eCFR, Office of the Federal Register / Department of Homeland Security: 8 CFR 212.1: Documentary requirements for nonimmigrants](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-212/section-212.1)
  - [U.S. Government Publishing Office: 8 U.S.C. 1101: Immigration and Nationality Act definitions](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2023-title8/pdf/USCODE-2023-title8-chap12-subchapI-sec1101.pdf)

## Useful links

- [HTML evidence page](https://multipassrank.com/india-northern-mariana-islands-visa)
- [India passport access](https://multipassrank.com/passport/india)
- [All passport requirements for Northern Mariana Islands](https://multipassrank.com/destination/northern-mariana-islands)
- [Dataset license](https://multipassrank.com/data-license)