Visa requirements for Maltese citizens

Visa requirements for Maltese citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Malta. In 2014, Maltese citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 166 countries and territories, ranking the Maltese passport 8th in the world (the highest ranking of all the recent new member states of the EU) according to the Visa Restrictions Index.

Visa requirements map

Visa requirements for Maltese citizens

Visa requirements

Country	Visa requirement	Notes (excluding departure fees)
Afghanistan	Visa required[1]
Albania	Visa not required[2]	90 days; ID card valid
Algeria	Visa required[3]
Andorra	Visa not required[4]	ID card valid
Angola	Visa required[5]
Antigua and Barbuda	Visa not required[6]	3 months
Argentina	Visa not required[7]	90 days
Armenia	Visa not required[8]	180 days
Australia and territories	eVisitor[9]	90 days on each visit in 12-month period if granted
Austria	EU !Visa not required[10]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Azerbaijan	Visa required[11]
Bahamas	Visa not required[12]	3 months
Bahrain	Visa on arrival[13]	14 days
Bangladesh	Visa on arrival[14]	30 days
Barbados	Visa not required[15]	3 months
Belarus	Visa required[16]
Belgium	EU !Visa not required[17]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Belize	Visa not required[18]	1 month
Benin	Visa required[19]
Bhutan	Visa required[20]
Bolivia	Visa on arrival[21]	90 days
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Visa not required[22]	90 days; ID card valid
Botswana	Visa not required[23]	90 days
Brazil	Visa not required[24]	90 days
Brunei	Visa not required[25]	90 days
Bulgaria	EU !Visa not required[26]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Burkina Faso	Visa on arrival[27]	1 month
Burundi	Visa required[28][29]
Cambodia	Visa on arrival[30]	30 days. Visa is also obtainable online.[31]
Cameroon	Visa required[32]
Canada	Visa not required[33]	6 months
Cape Verde	Visa on arrival[34]
Central African Republic	Visa required[35]
Chad	Visa required[36]
Chile	Visa not required[37]	90 days
China	Visa required[38]	72-hours visa free visit when in transit at Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Guilin, Shanghai, Shenyang and Xi'an.
Colombia	Visa not required[39]	180 days
Comoros	Visa on arrival[40]
Republic of the Congo	Visa required[41]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Visa required[42]
Costa Rica	Visa not required[43]	90 days
Cote d'Ivoire ! Côte d'Ivoire	Visa required[44]
Croatia	EU !Visa not required[45]	90 days;[46][47] ID card valid
Cuba	Visa required !Tourist Card required[48]
Cyprus	EU !Visa not required[49]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Czech Republic	EU !Visa not required[50]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Denmark and territories	EU !Visa not required[51]	Freedom of movement (DK); ID card valid
Djibouti	Visa on arrival[52]
Dominica	Visa not required[53]	6 months
Dominican Republic	Visa not required[54]	90 days (10 USD Tourist Card must be purchased upon arrival)
Ecuador	Visa not required[55]	90 days
Egypt	Visa on arrival[56]	30 days
El Salvador	Visa not required[57]	3 months
Equatorial Guinea	Visa required[58]
Eritrea	Visa required[59]
Estonia	EU !Visa not required[60]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Ethiopia	Visa required[61]
Fiji	Visa not required[62]	4 months
Finland	EU !Visa not required[63]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
France and territories	EU !Visa not required[64]	Freedom of movement (in Regions of France); ID card valid
Gabon	Visa required[65]
Gambia	Visa not required[66]	90 days
Georgia	Visa not required[67]	90 days within 180 days; ID card valid
Germany	EU !Visa not required[68]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Ghana	Visa required[69]
Greece	EU !Visa not required[70]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Grenada	Visa not required[71]	3 months
Guatemala	Visa not required[72]	90 days
Guinea	Visa required[73]
Guinea-Bissau	Visa on arrival[74]	90 days
Guyana	Visa required[75]
Haiti	Visa not required[76]	90 days
Honduras	Visa not required[77]	3 months
Hungary	EU !Visa not required[78]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Iceland	EU !Visa not required[79]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
India	Visa required[80]	Maltese citizens will become eligible for the e-Tourist Visa facility on 15 June 2015.[81]
Indonesia	Visa on arrival[82]	30 days
Iran	Visa on arrival[83]	Conditions apply.[84]
Iraq	Visa required[85]	Visa on arrival for 15 days at Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports.
Ireland	EU !Visa not required[86]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Israel	Visa not required[87]	3 months
Italy	EU !Visa not required[88]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Jamaica	Visa not required[89]
Japan	Visa not required[90]	90 days
Jordan	Visa on arrival[91]	Conditions apply[92]
Kazakhstan	Visa required[93]
Kenya	Visa on arrival[94]	3 months
Kiribati	Visa not required[95]	30 days
North Korea	Visa required[96]
South Korea	Visa not required[97]	90 days
Kuwait	Visa on arrival[98]	3 months
Kyrgyzstan	Visa not required[99]	60 days
Laos	Visa on arrival[100]	30 days
Latvia	EU !Visa not required[101]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Lebanon	Visa on arrival[102]	3 months, only at Beirut airport to tourists, provided holding a telephone number and address in Lebanon.
Lesotho	Visa not required[103]
Liberia	Visa required[104]
Libya	Visa required[105]
Liechtenstein	EU !Visa not required[106]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Lithuania	EU !Visa not required[107]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Luxembourg	EU !Visa not required[108]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Macedonia	Visa not required[109]	90 days; ID card valid
Madagascar	Visa on arrival !Free visa on arrival[110]	30 days
Malawi	Visa not required[111]	90 days
Malaysia	Visa not required[112]	30 days
Maldives	Visa on arrival[113]	30 days
Mali	Visa required[114]
Marshall Islands	Visa on arrival !Free visa on arrival[115]	90 days
Mauritania	Visa on arrival[116]
Mauritius	Visa not required[117]	90 days
Mexico	Visa not required[118]	180 days
Micronesia	Visa not required[119]	30 days
Moldova	Visa not required[120]	90 days
Monaco	Visa not required[121]	ID card valid
Mongolia	Visa not required[122]	30 days; until 12/2015
Montenegro	Visa not required[123]	90 days; ID card valid
Morocco	Visa not required[124]	90 days
Mozambique	Visa on arrival[125]	30 days
Myanmar	eVisa[126]	28 days, eVisa holders must arrive via Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw or Mandalay airports.
Namibia	Visa required[127]
Nauru	Visa on arrival[128]
Nepal	Visa on arrival[129]	90 days
Netherlands and territories	EU !Visa not required[130]	Freedom of movement (European Netherlands); ID card valid
New Zealand and territories	Visa not required[131]	3 months
Nicaragua	Visa not required[132]	90 days
Niger	Visa required[133]
Nigeria	Visa required[134]
Norway	EU !Visa not required[135]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Oman	Visa on arrival[136]
Pakistan	Visa required[137]	Visa on arrival when travelling on business valid for 30 days. Conditions apply.[138]
Palau	Visa on arrival[139]	30 days
Panama	Visa not required[140]	180 days
Papua New Guinea	Visa on arrival !Free visa on arrival[141]	60 days
Paraguay	Visa not required[142]	90 days
Peru	Visa not required[143]	183 days
Philippines	Visa not required[144]	30 days
Poland	EU !Visa not required[145]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Portugal	EU !Visa not required[146]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Qatar	Visa on arrival[147]	1 month
Romania	EU !Visa not required[148]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Russia	Visa required[149]
Rwanda	Visa required[150]	Visa is obtained online.[151]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Visa not required[152]	3 months
Saint Lucia	Visa not required[153]	6 weeks
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Visa not required[154]	1 month
Samoa	Visa on arrival !Free Entry Permit on arrival[155]	60 days
San Marino	Visa not required[156]	ID card valid
São Tomé and Príncipe	Visa required[157]	Visa is obtained online.[158]
Saudi Arabia	Visa required[159]
Senegal	Visa on arrival[160]	3 months. Must hold an invitation letter. Visa available online.[161]
Serbia	Visa not required[162]	90 days; ID card valid
Seychelles	Visa on arrival !Free Visitor's Permit on arrival[163]	1 month
Sierra Leone	Visa required[164]
Singapore	Visa not required[165]	90 days
Slovakia	EU !Visa not required[166]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Slovenia	EU !Visa not required[167]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Solomon Islands	Visa on arrival !Free Visitor's permit on arrival[168]	3 months
Somalia	Visa on arrival[169]	30 days, provided an invitation letter issued by the sponsor has been submitted to the Airport Immigration Department at least 2 days before arrival.
South Africa	Visa not required[170]	90 days
South Sudan	Visa required[171]
Spain	EU !Visa not required[172]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Sri Lanka	Electronic Travel Authorization[173]	30 days
Sudan	Visa required[174]
Suriname	Visa on arrival !Tourist Card on arrival[175]	90 days
Swaziland	Visa not required[176]	30 days
Sweden	EU !Visa not required[177]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Switzerland	EU !Visa not required[178]	Freedom of movement; ID card valid
Syria	Visa required[179]
Tajikistan	Visa on arrival[180]	45 days
Tanzania	Visa on arrival[181]
Thailand	Visa on arrival[182]	15 days
Timor-Leste	Visa on arrival[183]	30 days
Togo	Visa on arrival[184]	7 days
Tonga	Visa on arrival !Free visa on arrival[185]	31 days
Trinidad and Tobago	Visa not required[186]	90 days
Tunisia	Visa not required[187]	3 months
Turkey	eVisa[188]	3 months ; ID card valid[189]
Turkmenistan	Visa required[190]
Tuvalu	Visa on arrival !Free visa on arrival[191]	1 month
Uganda	Visa not required[192]	3 months
Ukraine	Visa not required[193]	90 days
United Arab Emirates	Visa on arrival !Free visa on arrival[194]	30 days
United Kingdom excluding some Overseas territories	EU !Visa not required[195]	Freedom of movement (in Constituent countries); ID card valid
United States	Visa not required !Visa Waiver Program[196]	90 days on arrival from overseas; ESTA valid for 2 years required if arriving by air or cruise ship.[197]
Uruguay	Visa not required[198]	90 days
Uzbekistan	Visa required[199]
Vanuatu	Visa not required[200]	30 days
Vatican City	Visa not required[201]	ID card valid
Venezuela	Visa not required[202]	90 days
Vietnam	Visa required[203]
Yemen	Visa required[204]
Zambia	Visa not required[205]	90 days
Zimbabwe	Visa not required[206]	3 months

Territories

Visa requirements for Maltese citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas, partially recognized countries and restricted zones:

Europe

•  Abkhazia — Visa required.^[207]
• Mount Athos — Special permit required (4 days: 25 euro for Orthodox visitors, 35 euro for non-Orthodox visitors, 18 euro for students). There is a visitors' quota: maximum 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox per day and women are not allowed.^[208][209]
• Crimea — Visa issued by Russia is required.^[210]
•  Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus — Visa free access for 3 months. Passport required.^[211]
• UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus — Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.^[212]
•  Faroe Islands — Visa not required.^[213]
•  Gibraltar — Visa not required.^[214]
•  Guernsey – Visa not required.^[215]
•  Alderney – Visa not required.^[216]
•  Sark – Visa not required.^[217]
•  Isle of Man — Visa not required.^[218][219]
• Jan Mayen — permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours^[220] and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.^[221]
•  Jersey – Visa not required.^[222]
•  Kosovo — visa free for 90 days.^[223]
•  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic — Visa required (issued for single entry for 21 days/1/2/3 months or multiple entry visa for 1/2/3 months).^[224][225] Travellers with Nagorno-Karabakh visa (expired or valid) or evidence of travel to Nagorno-Karabakh (stamps) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan.^[226]
• Closed cities and regions in Russia — special authorization required.^[227]
•  South Ossetia — Visa free. Multiple entry visa to Russia and three day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.^[228][229]
•  Transnistria — Visa free. Registration required after 24h.^[230][231]

Africa

•  Eritrea (outside Asmara) — visa covers Asmara only; to travel in the rest of the country, a Travel Permit for Foreigners is required (20 Eritrean nakfa).^[232]
•  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara controlled territory) — Visa not required up to 3 months.^[233]
•  Somaliland — Visa issued on arrival (30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival).^[234][235]
•  Sudan — All foreigners traveling more than 25 kilometers outside of Khartoum must obtain a travel permit.
• Darfur — Separate travel permit is required.^[236]

Asia

•  Hong Kong — Visa not required for 90 days.^[237]
•  India — Protected Area Permit (PAP) required for whole states of Nagaland and Sikkim and parts of states Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh. Restricted Area Permit (RAP) required for all of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and parts of Sikkim. Some of these requirements are occasionally lifted for a year.^{[238][239][240][241][242][243]}
•  Iraqi Kurdistan — Visa on arrival for 15 days is available at Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports.^[85]
•  Kazakhstan — Special permission required for the town of Baikonur and surrounding areas in Kyzylorda Oblast, and the town of Gvardeyskiy near Almaty.^[244]
• Kish Island — Visitors to Kish Island do not require a visa.^[245]
•  Macao — Visa not required for 90 days.^[246]
• Sabah and Sarawak — These states have their own immigration authorities and passport is required to travel to them, however the same visa applies.^[247]
• Maldives — With the exception of the capital Malé, tourists are generally prohibited from visiting non-resort islands without the express permission of the Government of Maldives.^[248]
•  Palestine — Visa not required. Arrival by sea to Gaza Strip not allowed.^[249][250]
•  Taiwan — Visa not required for 90 days.^[251]
• Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province — OIVR permit required (15+5 Tajikistani Somoni) and another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.^{[252][253][254]}
•  Turkmenistan — A special permit, issued prior to arrival by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is required if visiting the following places: Atamurat, Cheleken, Dashoguz, Serakhs and Serhetabat.^[255]
• Tibet Autonomous Region — Tibet Travel Permit required (10 US Dollars).^{[256][257][258]}
• Korean Demilitarized Zone — restricted zone.
• UNDOF Zone and Ghajar — restricted zones.
• Phú Quốc — can visit without a visa for up to 30 days.^[259]
•  Yemen — Special permission needed for travel outside Sana’a or Aden.^[260]

Caribbean and North Atlantic

•  Anguilla — Visa not required for 3 months.^[261][262]
•  Aruba — Visa not required for 30 days.^[263]
• Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba — Visa not required for 3 months.^[264]
•  Bermuda — Visa not required for 21 days (extendable).^[265][266]
•  British Virgin Islands — Visa not required for 1 month (extendable).^[267][268]
•  Cayman Islands — Visa not required for 6 months.^[269][270]
•  Colombia — Visitors arriving at San Andrés and Leticia must buy tourist cards on arrival.^[271]
•  Curacao — Visa not required for 3 months.^[272]
•  Montserrat — Visa not required for 6 months.^[273]
•  Greenland — Visa not required.^[213]
• Margarita Island — All visitors are fingerprinted.^[274]
•  Puerto Rico — Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.^[275]
•  Saint Pierre and Miquelon — Visa not required.^[276]
•  Sint Maarten — Visa not required for 3 months.^[277]
•  Turks and Caicos Islands — Visa not required for 90 days.^[278][279]
•  U.S. Virgin Islands — Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.^[275]

Oceania

•  American Samoa — Visa required (entry permit).^[280]
• Ashmore and Cartier Islands — special authorisation required.^[281]
• Clipperton Island — special permit required.^[282]
•  Cook Islands — Visa free access for 31 days.^[283]
• Lau Province — Special permission required.^[284]
•  French Polynesia — Visa not required.^[285]
•  Guam — Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.^[275]
•  New Caledonia — Visa not required for 3 months.^[286]
•  Niue — Visa on arrival valid for 30 days is issued free of charge.^[287]
•  Northern Mariana Islands — Visa not required.^[288]
•  Pitcairn Islands — 14 days visa free and landing fee 35 USD or tax of 5 USD if not going ashore.^{[289][290][291][292]}
• United States Minor Outlying Islands — special permits required for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll,Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island.^{[293][294][295][296][297][298][299]}
•  Wallis and Futuna — Visa not required.^[300]

South Atlantic and Antarctica

•  Falkland Islands — Visitor Permit valid for 4 weeks is issued on arriva.^[301][302]
•  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  •  Ascension Island — Entry Permit must be obtained minimum 28 days in advance (3 months for 20/30 pounds sterling, single/double entry).^[303]
  •  Saint Helena — Entry Permit (£25) for 183 days is issued on arrival.^[304]
  •  Tristan da Cunha — Permission to land required for 15/30 pounds sterling (yacht/ship passenger) for Tristan da Cunha Island or 20 pounds sterling for Gough Island, Inaccessible Island or Nightingale Islands.^[305]
•  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands — Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).^{[306][307][308]}
• Antarctica and adjacent islands — special permits required for  French Southern and Antarctic Lands,  Argentine Antarctica, Australian Antarctic Territory, Chilean Antarctic Territory, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Peter I Island, Queen Maud Land, Ross Dependency.^{[309][310][311][312][313][314][315][316][317][318][319]}

•  Arab League — Certain countries will deny access to holders of Israeli visas or passport stamps of Israel because of the Arab League boycott of Israel.

Vaccination

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination. Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area.^[320]

Passport validity

Many countries require passport validity of no less than 6 months and one or two blank pages.^[321]

Countries requiring passport validity of at least 6 months on arrival include Afghanistan, Algeria, Bhutan, Botswana, Brunei, Cambodia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq (except when arriving at Basra - 3 months and Erbil or Sulaimaniyah - on arrival), Israel, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, countries requiring passport validity of at least 4 months on arrival include Micronesia, Zambia, countries requiring passport validity of at least 3 months on arrival include Georgia, Honduras, Iceland, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Moldova, Nauru, Panama, United Arab Emirates and countries requiring passport validity of at least 1 month on arrival include Eritrea, Hong Kong, Macao, New Zealand, South Africa.^[322] Other countries require either a passport valid on arrival or passport valid throughout the period of intended stay.

Non-ordinary passports

Holders of various categories of official Maltese passports have additional visa-free access to the following countries - China (diplomatic or service passports), Libya (diplomatic, official or service passports) and Russia (diplomatic passports). Holders of diplomatic or service passports of any country have visa-free access to Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Mali and Zimbabwe.

Right to consular protection in non-EU countries

When in a non-EU country where there is no Maltese embassy, Maltese citizens as EU citizens have the right to get consular protection from the embassy of any other EU country present in that country.

See also

• Visa requirements for the European Union citizens
• Maltese passport
• Foreign relations of Malta
• Visa policy in the European Union

References