Group I ordinary passports: visa-free tourism or visit
The live Ministry country API assigns 54 mapped catalog nationalities to Group I. Later official measures override stale API rows for Honduras, Israel, El Salvador, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; the resulting 58 named ordinary passports are visa-free for tourism or visits.
- The scope is tourism or visit only, without a residence purpose. The source does not establish a nationality-wide ETA, eVisa, or visa-on-arrival requirement for this group.
- Honduras follows the bilateral tourist/visit visa suppression effective 17 March 2024; El Salvador the ordinary-passport agreement effective 21 June 2024; the Dominican Republic its waiver effective 2 September 2024; and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines its agreement effective 11 November 2021.
- The 1 December 2025 announcement controls South Korea, South Africa, Bulgaria, Malta, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Israel and United States. The API has not updated Israel and is not followed for that older Group III value.
- Passport/document validity, identity, admission screening, health evidence where applicable, stay, purpose, extension and other migration conditions remain outside this nationality baseline. Diplomatic, official, service, emergency, refugee, stateless and other special documents are excluded.
Official sourcesMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Ministry of Foreign Affairs visa portal: country/group APIMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Ministry: current tourist visa Group I/II/III frameworkMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Ministry: eight nationalities enter Group IMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Ministry: Bolivia–Honduras tourism/visit visa suppressionMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Ministry: Dominican ordinary-passport tourism visa suppressionMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Ministry: Bolivia–El Salvador ordinary-passport visa suppressionMinistry of Foreign Affairs: Foreign Ministry: Bolivia–Saint Vincent and the Grenadines visa suppression