Visa-exempt French-access ordinary passports: visa-free short visit to Monaco
For a short visit, Monaco applies the same foreigner entry and circulation regime as France. These ordinary passports are visa-exempt for the French access leg under Annex II or equivalent free-movement arrangements and therefore have a visa-free visitor route to Monaco.
- This is a Monaco visit of under three months; the French/Schengen access leg is limited to no more than 90 days in any 180-day period.
- Biometric passports are required for AL, BA, GE, MD, ME, MK, RS, UA and XK. Taiwan requires an identity-card number in the passport; HK and MO require their named SAR passports.
- CH, IS, LI and NO follow equivalent free-movement treatment for the French access leg. Residence permits, refugee/stateless documents, border permits, school groups, paid activity, crew and special passports are not normalized into this ordinary-passport baseline.
- No current source establishes a separate nationality-wide Monaco visitor visa rule for minors. A Monaco circulation document for a minor resident is a residence document, not a visitor-access rule.
- ETIAS is not operating on the research date. No separate Monegasque eVisa, ETA or visa-on-arrival route is established by the reviewed official sources.
Official sourcesPrincipality of Monaco, Legimonaco: France–Monaco Neighbourhood Convention of 18 May 1963Principality of Monaco, Legimonaco: Sovereign Ordinance No. 3.153: conditions of entry and stay of foreignersEuropean Union, EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, consolidated 30 December 2025European Union, EUR-Lex: Schengen Borders Code: persons with equivalent free-movement rightsEuropean Commission, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs: European Travel Information and Authorisation System: current status