Montenegrin standard ordinary passports: visa-free French overseas short visits
Every currently valid standard Montenegrin ordinary passport meets the biometric-passport predicate in each named French territorial Annex II, so it is visa-free for the ordinary short-visitor route.
- Scope is only the standard passport issued to a Montenegrin citizen under the Travel Documents Law. The current law calls it an electronic public document and requires its chip to contain the facial photograph and two fingerprints; it identifies those as biometric data used at border crossing.
- The law fixes standard validity at ten years, two years for a child under four, and one year where fingerprints are temporarily unobtainable. Those are still the statutory electronic passport, not a separate emergency or temporary travel-document class; the return-only travel certificate is expressly distinct and excluded.
- The former Yugoslav passport is not a current counterexample: the Government's consular guidance records that FRY-form passports ceased to be valid on 31 December 2009. No extension route is used; a replacement is a newly issued statutory electronic passport.
- The cited French Guiana, Réunion, Mayotte, French Polynesia and New Caledonia orders are separately applied. GF, RE and YT allow up to 90 days in 180 days; PF and NC allow three months in six months, subject to any more favourable circulation agreement and final admission.
- Work, residence permits, third-country visas, transit, diplomatic/service, refugee/alien, seaman, identity-card and travel-certificate routes are outside this ordinary short-visitor baseline.
Official sourcesMinistry of the Interior, Government of Montenegro: Law on Travel Documents of Montenegro, consolidated through 146/2021Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Montenegro: Archived MFA travel-documents guidance: biometric passport and former-FRY passport expiryLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: French Guiana and Réunion visa exemptionLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: Mayotte visa exemptionLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: French Polynesia visa exemptionLégifrance, French Government legal-publication service: Current Annex II: New Caledonia visa exemption