Other ordinary passports: territory-specific advance visa required
For the remaining catalog ordinary passports, the two current orders require a valid territory-specific visa unless the traveler qualifies for a separately specified exemption. The required visa is a physical vignette, so it is normalized as advance visa rather than eVisa.
- Short visitor baseline only. A Schengen visa alone is insufficient; the visa must be valid for the requested overseas territory.
- Residence permits, long-stay visas, French multi-entry visas, cruise conditions, transit, diplomatic, service, official and other special-document exemptions remain conditional and are not normalized as nationality-wide visitor access.
- For Vanuatu, the listed ordinary-passport waiver is limited to passports issued before 25 May 2015; the current entry order also requires a travel document issued less than ten years earlier, so it cannot support a current ordinary-passport waiver.
- No eVisa or ETA is inferred from France-Visas' online application workflow.
Official sourcesLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 29 December 2011: entry documents and visas for French PolynesiaLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 22 July 2011: entry documents and visas for New CaledoniaFrance-Visas, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs: France-Visas: Short-stay visas for non-European French territoriesFrench Ministry of the Interior, Directorate-General for Foreign Nationals: French Ministry of the Interior: visas for overseas FranceLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 28 May 2025 removing Georgia's French Polynesia exemptionLégifrance, French Government legal publication service: Order of 28 May 2025 removing Georgia's New Caledonia exemption