Laos to Saint Martin (French part)

How this access rule is documented

1. Current official routeVisa required

   Unlisted ordinary passports: advance territorial visa required

   For the listed ordinary passports, the current order requires a valid French visa because they are neither free-movement beneficiaries nor ordinary-passport entries in the exhaustive Saint-Martin Annex II waiver list.

   • This is the ordinary-passport, short-visitor baseline: the order requires a valid French visa where the Annex II waiver does not apply. The territorial visa is a French visa sticker bearing the collectivity for which it is valid, not an eVisa or standard visa on arrival.
   • A qualifying current French or fully Schengen-applying-state residence permit or long-stay visa can independently waive the Saint-Martin visa for up to 90 days in 180; that document-conditioned route is deliberately not normalized into these passport rows.
   • The Annex II has narrow pre-existing-French-visa, old-Vanuatu-passport, cruise, crew, transit, exceptional border-visa and special/diplomatic-passport exceptions. These do not change the unconditioned ordinary short-visitor baseline. A border visa is exceptional, requires unforeseeable imperative entry and may be valid no more than 15 days. Final admission remains for border authorities.

   Official sourcesLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Annexe II — Arrêté du 18 avril 2012 relatif aux documents et visas exigés pour l'entrée des étrangers sur le territoire des collectivités de Saint-Barthélemy et de Saint-MartinLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Arrêté du 18 avril 2012 relatif aux documents et visas exigés pour l'entrée des étrangers sur le territoire des collectivités de Saint-Barthélemy et de Saint-MartinFrench Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals in France: Visas pour l'outre-mer