# Malaysia passport to Maldives: Visa on arrival

Current access classification: **Visa on arrival** — Visa available at the border or airport.

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 — Maldives: foreign ordinary passports with tourist visa on arrival** (Visa on arrival)
  Maldives Immigration grants the tourist visa on arrival to foreign tourists without visa pre-approval, subject to the separate Israeli-passport prohibition.
  - Applies only to foreign ordinary passports for tourism/short visitor travel. Maldives Immigration says tourist visas are granted on arrival and tourists do not require visa pre-approval.
  - A Traveller Declaration is mandatory within 96 hours before the arriving flight and is a free self-declaration. It is not an ETA or eVisa and does not replace arrival issuance.
  - Arrival requires an MRZ passport or travel document with at least one month validity (no extended-validity passports), a complete itinerary with confirmed return journey, prepaid registered accommodation and sufficient funds, or a pre-approved Maldives Immigration sponsorship visa; onward-entry requirements and applicable yellow-fever certification also apply.
  - Immigration officers determine admissibility at the port of entry. The reviewed current tourist-visa page does not state a fixed initial tourist-visa duration, so this candidate does not infer one.
  - Does not classify residence, work, business, meeting/conference, dependent, marriage, transit without clearing arrival immigration, crew, diplomatic, official, service, refugee, stateless, emergency or other special-document cases.
  Official sources:
  - [Maldives Immigration: Maldives Immigration: Tourist Visa on Arrival](https://www.immigration.gov.mv/visa/tourist-visa)
  - [Maldives Immigration: Maldives Immigration IMUGA: Traveller Declaration](https://imuga.immigration.gov.mv/traveller?fr=60328C0601C0401M08)

## Useful links

- [HTML evidence page](https://multipassrank.com/malaysia-maldives-visa-on-arrival)
- [Malaysia passport access](https://multipassrank.com/passport/malaysia)
- [All passport requirements for Maldives](https://multipassrank.com/destination/maldives)
- [Dataset license](https://multipassrank.com/data-license)