Bermuda: Schedule nationals require qualifying third-country travel authorization
Order No. 2 of 2025 prohibits the named Schedule nationals from entering Bermuda unless they have qualifying current Canadian, UK or US travel authorization or a narrow Bermuda Government spouse/belongs letter. For the ordinary-passport baseline without either condition, this is normalized as visa-required; it is not a Bermuda eVisa or visa-on-arrival route.
- This visa-required classification is the passport-only baseline: the Order requires advance qualifying travel authorization to enter and re-enter Canada, the United Kingdom, or the United States, valid for 45 days after intended Bermuda departure.
- The official Immigration guidance describes that document as a UK, US, or Canadian multi-re-entry visa; the binding Order uses the broader term travel authorization. Neither source establishes a Bermuda-issued eVisa or visa-on-arrival for this cohort.
- The Department's corroborative guidance additionally requires both the MRV and passport to remain valid for 45 days after the visitor stay expires. This enforcement wording is retained separately from the controlling Order's intended-departure language.
- The asterisk incorporates current UK exceptions. Hong Kong and Macao SAR passports are mapped separately as visa-free; a Taiwan passport qualifies only when it contains the competent authority's identity-card number, so the broader TW issuer row retains the passport-only visa-required baseline.
- A current Bermuda Government letter attesting that the person is a Bermudian spouse or belongs to Bermuda is a separate narrow exception and is excluded from this nationality-only visitor policy.
- The double-asterisk Cuba, Haiti, Ukraine and Venezuela standard-work-permit landing exception and all work, residence, special-document, transit and individual-permission routes are excluded.
- Even after the Order condition is met, the bona fide visitor requirements, duration limit, exceptionable-person rule and final admission assessment under the Immigration Act remain applicable.
Official sourcesBermuda Laws Online / Minister of Economy and Labour: Bermuda Immigration and Protection (Prohibition of Entry) (No. 2) Order 2025, BR 59/2025Government of Bermuda Ministry of Economy and Labour: Update: Bermuda Immigration and Protection (Prohibition of Entry) Order 2025Government of Bermuda Department of Immigration: Bermuda entry visasBermuda Laws Online: Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act 1956 (current consolidated law)UK Home Office: Immigration Rules Appendix Visitor: current visa-national exceptions