Visa policy of Jamaica

Visitors to Jamaica must obtain a visa from one of the Jamaican diplomatic missions, or in certain cases from one of the United Kingdom diplomatic missions, unless they come from one of the 116 countries designated as visa exempt countries or countries whose citizens may obtain a visa on arrival.

Visa policy

Visa policy of Jamaica:^[1]^[2]^[3]

Country	Visa policy
Afghanistan	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Albania	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Algeria	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Andorra	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Angola	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Antigua and Barbuda	No visa required
Argentina	No visa required
Armenia	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Australia	No visa required
Austria	No visa required
Azerbaijan	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Bahamas	No visa required
Bahrain	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Bangladesh	No visa required
Barbados	No visa required
Belarus	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Belgium	No visa required
Belize	No visa required
Benin	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Bermuda	No visa required
Bhutan	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Bolivia	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Botswana	No visa required
Brazil	No visa required
British Virgin Islands	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Brunei	No visa required
Bulgaria	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Burkina Faso	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Burundi	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Cambodia	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Cameroon	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Canada	No visa required
Cape Verde	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Cayman Islands	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Central African Republic	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Chad	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Chile	No visa required
China	No visa required
Colombia	No visa required
Comoros	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Congo	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Costa Rica	No visa required
Ivory Coast	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Croatia	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Cuba	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Cyprus	No visa required
Czech Republic	No visa required
Denmark	No visa required
Djibouti	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Dominica	No visa required
Dominican Republic	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Ecuador	No visa required
Egypt	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
El Salvador	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Equatorial Guinea	Admission refused
Eritrea	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Estonia	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Ethiopia	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Fiji	No visa required
Finland	No visa required
France	No visa required
Gabon	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Georgia	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Germany	No visa required
Ghana	No visa required
Greece	No visa required
Grenada	No visa required
Guatemala	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Guinea	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Guinea-Bissau	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Guyana	No visa required
Haiti	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Honduras	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Hong Kong	No visa required
Hungary	No visa required
Iceland	No visa required
India	No visa required
Indonesia	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Iraq	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Ireland	No visa required
Iran	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Israel	No visa required
Italy	No visa required
Japan	No visa required
Jordan	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Kazakhstan	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Kenya	No visa required
Kiribati	No visa required
North Korea	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
South Korea	No visa required
Kuwait	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Laos	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Latvia	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Lebanon	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Lesotho	No visa required
Liberia	Admission refused
Libya	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Liechtenstein	No visa required
Lithuania	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Luxembourg	No visa required
Macedonia	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Madagascar	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Malawi	No visa required
Malaysia	No visa required
Maldives	No visa required
Mali	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Malta	No visa required
Marshall Islands	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Mauritania	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Mauritius	No visa required
Mexico	No visa required
F.S. Micronesia	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Moldova	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Monaco	No visa required
Mongolia	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Montenegro	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Morocco	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Mozambique	No visa required
Myanmar	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Namibia	No visa required
Nauru	No visa required
Nepal	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Netherlands	No visa required
New Zealand	No visa required
Nicaragua	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Niger	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Nigeria	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Norway	No visa required
Oman	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Pakistan	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Palau	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Panama	No visa required
Papua New Guinea	No visa required
Paraguay	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Peru	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Philippines	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Poland	No visa required
Portugal	No visa required
Qatar	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Romania	No visa required
Russia	No visa required
Rwanda	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
San Marino	No visa required
São Tomé and Príncipe	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Saudi Arabia	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Senegal	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Serbia	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Seychelles	No visa required
Sierra Leone	Admission refused
Singapore	No visa required
Slovakia	No visa required
Slovenia	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Solomon Islands	No visa required
Somalia	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
South Africa	No visa required
Spain	No visa required
Sri Lanka	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Saint Kitts and Nevis	No visa required
Saint Lucia	No visa required
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	No visa required
Samoa	No visa required
Sudan	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Suriname	No visa required
Swaziland	No visa required
Sweden	No visa required
Switzerland	No visa required
Syria	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Taiwan	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Tajikistan	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Tanzania	No visa required
Thailand	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Gambia	No visa required
Togo	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Tonga	No visa required
Trinidad and Tobago	No visa required
Tunisia	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Turkey	No visa required
Turkmenistan	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Turks and Caicos Islands	No visa required
Tuvalu	No visa required
Uganda	No visa required
Ukraine	No visa required
United Arab Emirates	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
United Kingdom	No visa required
United States	No visa required
Uruguay	No visa required
Uzbekistan	Visa may be obtained on arrival
Vanuatu	No visa required
Venezuela	No visa required
Vietnam	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Yemen	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival
Zambia	No visa required
Zimbabwe	Visa must be obtained prior to arrival

Visa waiver

Under certain conditions some visa requiring nationals are exempt for tourist visits up to 30 days.^[4]

Nationals of Dominican Republic that are holders of a valid visa issued by Canada, United States, United Kingdom or Schengen member states.

Nationals of Bolivia and Peru that are holders of a valid visa issued by Canada, United States, United Kingdom or Schengen member states and who hold a proof that they are vaccinated against yellow fever.

Nationals of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Moldova, that are holders of a valid visa issued by Canada, United States, United Kingdom or Schengen member states and who hold a proof that they are immunized against measles, rubella and polio.

Nationals of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia that are holders of a valid visa issued by Canada, United States or United Kingdom and who hold a proof that they are immunized against measles, rubella and polio.

Nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras that are holders of a valid visa issued by Canada or United States.

Nationals of Paraguay that are holders of a valid visa issued by Canada or United States and who hold a proof that they are vaccinated against yellow fever.

Nationals of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania that are holders of a valid visa issued by Canada or United States and who hold a proof that they are immunized against measles, rubella and polio.

Nationals of Croatia and Slovenia that are holders of a valid visa issued by the United States and who hold a proof that they are immunized against measles, rubella and polio.

References

↑ "Do I need a visa to enter Jamaica?". Government of Jamaica. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
↑ Jamaica Waives Visa Requirements for Eastern European Tourists
↑ "Visa Information". Timatic. IATA. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
↑ No visa needed!

Visa policy by country

Africa

Central	Angola Cameroon Central African Republic Chad DR Congo R Congo Equatorial Guinea Gabon Sao Tome and Principe

Eastern	Burundi Comoros Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Rwanda Seychelles Somalia South Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

Northern	Algeria Egypt⁸ Libya Morocco Sudan Tunisia

Southern	Botswana Lesotho Namibia Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha¹ South Africa Swaziland

Western	Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Cote d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Americas

Caribbean	Dutch Caribbean Aruba Caribbean Netherlands Curaçao Sint Maarten Anguilla¹ Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados British Virgin Islands¹ Cayman Islands¹ Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica Montserrat¹ St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands¹

Central	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama

North	Bermuda¹ Canada Mexico United States

South	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Falkland Islands¹ Guyana Paraguay Peru South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands¹ Suriname Uruguay Venezuela

Asia

Central & North	Afghanistan Kazakhstan⁶ Kyrgyzstan Russia³ Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

East	China Hong Kong Macau Japan North Korea South Korea Mongolia Taiwan¹⁰

South	Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka

Southeast	Brunei Cambodia East Timor Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

Western	Abkhazia⁵¹⁰ Akrotiri and Dhekelia¹ ⁷ Armenia⁷ Azerbaijan⁵ Bahrain Cyprus⁷ Egypt⁸ Georgia⁵ Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ¹⁰ Northern Cyprus⁷ ¹⁰ Oman Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia South Ossetia⁵ Syria Turkey⁴ United Arab Emirates Yemen

Europe

European Union/EFTA	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Cyprus⁷ Denmark Estonia Finland France Overseas Germany Gibraltar¹ Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Overseas

Other Europe	Abkhazia⁵ ¹⁰ Akrotiri and Dhekelia¹ ⁷ Albania Andorra Armenia⁷ Azerbaijan⁵ Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Georgia⁵ Kazakhstan⁶ Kosovo¹⁰ Macedonia Moldova Monaco ² Montenegro Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ¹⁰ Northern Cyprus⁷ ¹⁰ Russia³ San Marino ² Serbia South Ossetia⁵ ¹⁰ Transnistria¹⁰ Turkey⁴ Ukraine Vatican City ²

Oceania

Australia
Cook Islands⁹
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Zealand
Niue⁹
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Islands¹
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tokelau⁹
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

¹ British Overseas Territories. ² Open border with Schengen Area. ³ Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. ⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. ⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia (Abkhazia; South Ossetia) are transcontinental countries. Both have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. ⁶ Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Has a small part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe. ⁷ Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus; Akrotiri and Dhekelia) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe. ⁸ Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and the Middle East. Has a small part of its territory in the Middle East called Sinai peninsula. ⁹ Part of the Realm of New Zealand. ¹⁰ Partially recognized.

Visa requirements

Africa

Central	Angolan Cameroonian Central African Republic Chadian DR Congo R Congo Equatorial Guinean Gabonese Santomean

Eastern	Burundian Comorian Djibouti Eritrean Ethiopian Kenyan Malagasy Malawian Mauritian Mozambican Rwandan Seychellois Somali South Sudanese Tanzanian Ugandan Zambian Zimbabwean

Northern	Algerian Egyptian⁸ Libyan Moroccan Sudanese Tunisian

Southern	Botswana Lesotho Namibian Saint Helena¹ South African Swazi

Western	Beninese Burkina Faso Cape Verdean Gambian Ghanaian Guinean Guinea-Bissauan Ivorian Liberian Malian Mauritanian Nigerian Nigerien Senegalese Sierra Leonean Togolese

Americas

Caribbean	Anguillan¹ Antigua and Barbuda Bahamian Barbadian British Virgin Islands¹ Caymanian¹ Cuban Dominica Dominican Republic Grenadian Haitian Jamaican Montserratian¹ Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucian Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands¹

Central	Belizean Costa Rican El Salvador Guatemalan Honduran Nicaraguan Panamanian

North	Bermudian¹ Canadian Mexican United States

South	Argentine Bolivian Brazilian Chilean Colombian Ecuadorian Guyanese Paraguayan Peruvian Surinamese Uruguayan Venezuelan

Asia

Central & North	Afghan Kazakhstani⁶ Kyrgyzstani Russian³ Tajik Turkmen Uzbekistani

East	Chinese Hong Konger Macanese Japanese North Korean South Korean Mongolian Taiwanese⁹

South	Bangladeshi Bhutanese Indian Maldivian Nepalese Pakistani Sri Lankan

Southeast	Bruneian Cambodian East Timorese Filipino Indonesian Laotian Malaysian Myanmar Singaporean Thai Vietnamese

Western	Abkhaz⁵ ⁹ Armenian⁷ Azerbaijani⁵ Bahraini Cypriot⁷ Egyptian⁸ Georgian⁵ Emirati Iranian Iraqi Israeli Jordanian Kuwaiti Lebanese Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ⁹ Northern Cypriot⁷ ⁹ Omani Palestinian⁵ Qatari Saudi South Ossetian⁵ ⁹ Syrian Turkish⁴ Yemeni

Europe

European Union	Austrian Belgian British (BOTC · BN(O) · BOC) Bulgarian Croatian Cypriot⁷ Czech Danish Dutch Estonian (Non-citizens) Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Irish Italian Latvian (Non-citizens) Lithuanian Luxembourg Maltese Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish

Other Europe	Abkhaz⁵ ⁹ Albanian Andorran² Armenian⁷ Azerbaijani⁵ Belarusian Bosnian and Herzegovinian Georgian⁵ Gibraltar¹ Icelandic² Kazakhstani⁶ Kosovan⁹ Liechtenstein² Macedonia Moldovan Monégasque² Montenegrin Nagorno-Karabakh⁷ ⁹ Northern Cypriot⁷ ⁹ Norwegian² Russian³ San Marino² Serbian South Ossetian⁵ ⁹ Sovereign Military Order of Malta Swiss Transnistrian⁹ Turkish⁴ Ukrainian Vatican City²

Oceania

¹ British Overseas Territories. ² Open border with Schengen Area. ³ Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. ⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. ⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia (Abkhazia; South Ossetia) are transcontinental countries. Both have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. ⁶ Kazakhstan is a transcontinental country. Has a small part of its territories located west of the Urals in Eastern Europe. ⁷ Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) are entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe. ⁸ Egypt is a transcontinental country in North Africa and the Middle East. Has a small part of its territory in the Middle East called Sinai peninsula. ⁹ Partially recognized.

Immigration law

Visa policy of Jamaica

Visa policy

Visa waiver

See also

References