Visa requirements for Tongan citizens

Visa requirements for Tongan citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Tonga. As of 2 July 2019, Tongan citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 123 countries and territories, ranking the Tongan passport 46th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.[1]

Not to be confused with Visa policy of Tonga.

Tonga signed a mutual visa waiver agreement with Schengen Area countries on 20 November 2015.[2]

Visa requirements map
Visa requirements for Tongan citizens
  Tonga
  Visa-free
  Visa on arrival
  eVisa
  Visa required

Visa requirements
Country Visa requirement Allowed stay Notes (excluding departure fees)
 Afghanistan Visa required[3]
 Albania Visa required[4]
 Algeria Visa required[5]
 Andorra Visa not required[6]
 Angola Visa required[7]
 Antigua and Barbuda Electronic Entry Visa[8]
 Argentina Travel Certificate required[9][10]
  • Visa is not accepted. A Travel Certificate must be used instead and takes approximately 10 working days to issue.
 Armenia Visa on arrival[11] 120 days
 Australia Visa required[12]
  • May apply online (Online Visitor e600 visa).[13]
  • Transit visa is not required.[14]
 Austria Visa not required[15] 90 days
 Azerbaijan Visa required[16]
 Bahamas Visa not required[17] 3 months
 Bahrain Visa required[18]
 Bangladesh Visa not required[19]
 Barbados Visa not required[20]
 Belarus Visa required[21]
 Belgium Visa not required[22] 90 days
 Belize Visa not required[23]
 Benin eVisa / Visa on arrival[24][25] 30 days / 8 days
  • Must have an international vaccination certificate.
 Bhutan Visa required[26]
 Bolivia Visa on arrival[27] 90 days
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Visa not required[28] 90 days
 Botswana Visa not required[29] 3 months
 Brazil Visa required[30]
 Brunei Visa required[31]
 Bulgaria Visa not required[32] 90 days
  • 90 days within any 180 day period
 Burkina Faso Visa required[33]
 Burundi Visa required[34]
 Cambodia Visa on arrival[35]
 Cameroon Visa required[36]
 Canada Visa required[37]
 Cape Verde Visa on arrival[38]
 Central African Republic Visa required[39]
 Chad Visa required[40]
 Chile Visa not required[41] 90 days
 China Visa not required[42] 30 days
 Colombia Visa required[43]
 Comoros Visa on arrival[44]
 Republic of the Congo Visa required[45]
 Democratic Republic of the Congo Visa required[46]
 Costa Rica Visa not required[47] 30 days
 Côte d'Ivoire Visa required[48]
 Croatia Visa not required[49] 90 days
  • 90 days within any 180 day period
 Cuba Tourist Card required[50]
 Cyprus Visa not required[51] 90 days
  • 90 days within any 180 day period
 Czech Republic Visa not required[52] 90 days
 Denmark Visa not required[53] 90 days
 Djibouti eVisa[54] 31 days
 Dominica Visa not required[55] 6 months
 Dominican Republic Visa not required[56] 30 days
 Ecuador Visa not required[57] 90 days
 Egypt Visa on arrival[58]
  • Conditions apply.
 El Salvador Visa required[59]
  • Visa not required if holding a valid visa issued by Canada, United States, or a Schengen member state.
 Equatorial Guinea Visa required[60]
 Eritrea Visa required[61]
 Estonia Visa not required[62] 90 days
 Eswatini Visa not required[63] 30 days
 Ethiopia eVisa[64] up to 90 days
 Fiji Visa not required[65] 4 months
 Finland Visa not required[66] 90 days
 France Visa not required[67] 90 days
 Gabon Visa required[68]
 Gambia Visa not required[69] 90 days
 Georgia eVisa[70] 90 days
 Germany Visa not required[71] 90 days
 Ghana Visa required[72]
 Greece Visa not required[73] 90 days
 Grenada Visa not required[74] 3 months
 Guatemala Visa required[75]
 Guinea Visa required[76]
 Guinea-Bissau Visa on arrival[77] 90 days
 Guyana Visa required[78]
 Haiti Visa not required[79] 90 days
 Honduras Visa required[80]
 Hungary Visa not required[81] 90 days
 Iceland Visa not required[82] 90 days
 India e-Visa[83] 60 days
  • e-Visa holders must arrive via 26 designated airports[Note 1] or 3 designated seaports.[Note 2][84]
  • An Indian e-Tourist Visa can only be obtained twice in one calendar year.
 Indonesia Visa not required[85][86] 30 days
 Iran Visa on arrival[87]
  • Conditions apply.
 Iraq Visa required[88]
 Ireland Visa not required[89]
 Israel Visa not required[90] 90 days
 Italy Visa not required[91] 90 days
 Jamaica Visa not required[92]
 Japan Visa required[93]
 Jordan Visa on arrival[94] 3 months
 Kazakhstan Visa required[95]
 Kenya Visa not required[96] 3 months
 Kiribati Visa not required[97] 30 days
 North Korea Visa required[98]
 South Korea Visa not required[99] 30 days
 Kuwait Visa required[100]
 Kyrgyzstan eVisa[101]
 Laos Visa required[102]
 Latvia Visa not required[103] 90 days
 Lebanon Visa required[104]
 Lesotho Visa not required[105]
 Liberia Visa required[106]
 Libya Visa required[107]
 Liechtenstein Visa not required[108] 90 days
 Lithuania Visa not required[109] 90 days
 Luxembourg Visa not required[110] 90 days
 Madagascar eVisa / Visa on arrival[111] 90 days
 Malawi Visa on arrival[112]
 Malaysia Visa not required[113] 30 days
 Maldives Visa on arrival[114] 30 days
 Mali Visa required[115]
 Malta Visa not required[116] 90 days
 Marshall Islands Visa on arrival[117]
 Mauritania Visa on arrival[118]
 Mauritius Visa not required[119] 90 days
 Mexico Visa required[120]
 Micronesia Visa not required[121] 30 days
 Moldova Visa not required[122] 90 days
  • 90 days within any 180 day period
 Monaco Visa not required[123]
 Mongolia Visa required[124]
 Montenegro Visa required[125]
 Morocco Visa required[126]
 Mozambique Visa on arrival[127] 30 days
 Myanmar eVisa[128] 28 days
 Namibia Visa required[129]
 Nauru Visa on arrival[130]
   Nepal Visa on arrival[131] 90 days
 Netherlands Visa not required[132] 90 days
 New Zealand Visa required[133]
  • May transit without a visa.[134]
 Nicaragua Visa on arrival[135] 90 days
 Niger Visa required[136]
 Nigeria Visa required[137]
 North Macedonia Visa required[138]
 Norway Visa not required[139] 90 days
 Oman Visa required[140]
 Pakistan Visa not required[141]
  • Eligible to apply for Electronic Travel Authorization to obtain a visa on arrival for tourism purposes.[142]
  • Eligible to apply for Electronic Travel Authorization to obtain a visa on arrival for business purposes.[143]
  • Online Visa eligible.[144]
 Palau Visa on arrival[145] 30 days
 Panama Visa not required[146] 180 days
 Papua New Guinea eVisa / Free visa on arrival[147] 60 days
 Paraguay Visa required[148]
 Peru Visa not required[149] 180 days
 Philippines Visa required[150]
 Poland Visa not required[151] 90 days
 Portugal Visa not required[152] 90 days
 Qatar eVisa[153]
 Romania Visa not required[154] 90 days
  • 90 days within any 180 day period
 Russia Visa required[155]
 Rwanda eVisa / Visa on arrival[156] 30 days
 Saint Kitts and Nevis Visa not required[157]
 Saint Lucia Visa not required[158] 6 weeks
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Visa not required[159] 1 month
 Samoa Visa not required[160] 60 days
 San Marino Visa not required[161]
 São Tomé and Príncipe eVisa[162]
 Saudi Arabia Visa required[163]
 Senegal Visa required[164]
 Serbia Visa required[165]
 Seychelles Visitor's Permit on arrival[166] 3 months
 Sierra Leone Visa on arrival[167]
 Singapore Visa not required[168] 30 days
 Slovakia Visa not required[169] 90 days
 Slovenia Visa not required[170] 90 days
 Solomon Islands Visa on arrival[171]
 Somalia Visa on arrival[172] 30 days
 South Africa Visa required[173]
 South Sudan Visa required[174]
 Spain Visa not required[175] 90 days
 Sri Lanka Visa on arrival[176]
 Sudan Visa required[177]
 Suriname eVisa[178]
 Sweden Visa not required[179] 90 days
  Switzerland Visa not required[180] 90 days
 Syria Visa required[181]
 Tajikistan Visa required[182]
 Tanzania Visa not required[183] 90 days
 Thailand Visa required[184]
 Timor-Leste Visa on arrival[185] 30 days
 Togo Visa on arrival[186] 7 days
 Trinidad and Tobago Visa not required[187]
 Tunisia Visa required[188]
 Turkey Visa required[189]
 Turkmenistan Visa required[190]
 Tuvalu Visa on arrival[191] 1 month
 Uganda Visa not required[192] 3 months
 Ukraine Visa required[193]
 United Arab Emirates Visa required[194]
 United Kingdom and Crown dependencies Visa not required[195] 6 months
 United States Visa required[196]
 Uruguay Visa required[197]
 Uzbekistan eVisa[198] 30 days
 Vanuatu Visa not required[199] 90 days
  Vatican City Visa not required[200]
 Venezuela Visa required[201]
 Vietnam Visa required[202]
 Yemen Visa required[203]
 Zambia Visa not required[204] 90 days
 Zimbabwe Visa not required[205] 3 months

Dependent, Disputed, or Restricted territories
Unrecognized or partially recognized countries
Territory Conditions of access Notes
 Abkhazia Visa required[206]
 Kosovo Visa not required[207] 90 days
 Northern Cyprus Visa not required[208]
 Nagorno-Karabakh Visa required[209] Travellers with Nagorno-Karabakh visa (expired or valid) or evidence of travel to Nagorno-Karabakh (stamps) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan.[210]
 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Undefined visa regime in the Western Sahara controlled territory.
 Palestine Visa not required[211] Arrival by sea to Gaza Strip not allowed.[212]
 Somaliland Visa on arrival 30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival.[213][214]
 South Ossetia Visa not required[215] Multiple entry visa to Russia and three day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.[216][217]
 Taiwan eVisa[218][219]
 Transnistria Visa not required[220] Registration required after 24h.[221][222]
Dependent and autonomous territories
Territory Conditions of access Notes
China
 Hong Kong Visa not required[223] 90 days
 Macau Visa on arrival[224]
Denmark
 Faroe Islands Visa not required[225]
 Greenland Visa not required[226]
France
 French Guiana Visa not required[227]
 French Polynesia Visa not required[228]
French West Indies Visa not required Visa free for overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique
Visa required for overseas collectivities of Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin
 Mayotte Visa not required[229]
 New Caledonia Visa not required[230]
 Réunion Visa not required[231]
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon Visa not required[232]
 Wallis and Futuna Visa not required[233] 3 months
Netherlands
 Aruba Visa required[234]
Caribbean Netherlands Visa required[235] Includes Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.
 Curaçao Visa required[236]
 Sint Maarten Visa required[237]
New Zealand
 Cook Islands Visa not required[238] 31 days
 Niue Visa not required[239] 30 days
 Tokelau Visa required[240]
United Kingdom
 Akrotiri and Dhekelia Visa not required[241] Stays longer than 28 days per 12-month period require a permit.[242]
 Anguilla Visa not required[243] 3 months
 Bermuda Visa not required[244]
 British Indian Ocean Territory Special permit required Special permit required.[245]
 British Virgin Islands Visa not required[246]
 Cayman Islands Visa not required[247]
 Falkland Islands Visa required[248]
 Gibraltar Visa not required[249]
 Montserrat Visa not required[250]
 Pitcairn Islands Visa not required 14 days visa free and landing fee US$35 or tax of US$5 if not going ashore.[251][252][253]
 Ascension Island eVisa[254][255]
  • 3 months within any year period
 Saint Helena Visitor's Pass required Visitor's Pass granted on arrival valid for 4/10/21/60/90 days for 12/14/16/20/25 pound sterling.[256]
 Tristan da Cunha Permission required 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.[257]
 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Permit required Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).[258][259]
 Turks and Caicos Islands Visa required[260] Holders of a valid visa issued by Canada, United Kingdom or the USA do not required a visa for a maximum stay of 90 days.
United States
 American Samoa Visa required[261]
 Guam Visa required[262]
 Northern Mariana Islands Visa required[263]
 Puerto Rico Visa required[264]
 U.S. Virgin Islands Visa required[265]
Antarctica and adjacent islands
Special permits required for  Bouvet Island,  British Antarctic Territory,  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.[266][267][268][269][270][271][272][273][274][275][276][277]

Non-visa restrictions

Blank passport pages

Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages to be available in the passport being presented, typically one or two pages.[278] Endorsement pages, which often appear after the visa pages, are not counted as being available.

Vaccination
An International Certificate of Vaccination required to prove that someone has been vaccinated against yellow fever
Main article: Carte Jaune

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, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia, require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination, as does the South American territory of French Guiana.[279]

Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area or has visited one recently.[280]

Passport validity length

In the absence of specific bilateral agreements, countries requiring passports to be valid for at least 6 more months on arrival include Afghanistan, Algeria, Anguilla, Bahrain,[281] Bhutan, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel,[282] Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Vietnam.[283]

Countries requiring passports valid for at least 4 months on arrival include Micronesia and Zambia.

Countries requiring passports valid for at least 3 months on arrival include Albania, Honduras, North Macedonia, Panama, and Senegal.

Countries requiring passports with a validity of at least 3 months beyond the date of intended departure include Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Nauru, Moldova, and New Zealand. Similarly, the EEA countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, all European Union countries (except the Republic of Ireland) together with Switzerland and the United Kingdom also require 3 months validity beyond the date of the bearer's intended departure unless the bearer is an EEA or Swiss national.

Bermuda requires passports to be valid for at least 45 days upon entry.

Countries that require a passport validity of at least one month beyond the date of intended departure include Eritrea, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Macau, and South Africa.

Other countries require either a passport valid on arrival or a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay. Some countries have bilateral agreements with other countries to shorten the period of passport validity required for each other's citizens[284][285] or even accept passports that have already expired (but not been cancelled).[286]

Criminal record

Some countries, including Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States,[287] routinely deny entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record.

Persona non grata

The government of a country can declare a diplomat persona non grata, banning their entry into that country. In non-diplomatic use, the authorities of a country may also declare a foreigner persona non grata permanently or temporarily, usually because of unlawful activity.

Israeli stamps
Israeli border control Entry Permit (issued as a stand-alone document rather than a stamp affixed in a passport)

Kuwait,[288] Lebanon,[289] Libya,[290] Sudan,[291] Syria,[292] and Yemen[293] do not allow entry to people with passport stamps from Israel or whose passports have either a used or an unused Israeli visa, or where there is evidence of previous travel to Israel such as entry or exit stamps from neighbouring border posts in transit countries such as Jordan and Egypt.

To circumvent this Arab League boycott of Israel, the Israeli immigration services have now mostly ceased to stamp foreign nationals' passports on either entry to or exit from Israel (unless the entry is for some work-related purposes). Since 15 January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Ben Gurion Airport. Passports are still (as of 22 June 2017) stamped at Erez when travelling into and out of Gaza. Also, passports are still stamped (as of 22 June 2017) at the Jordan Valley/Sheikh Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin/Arava land borders with Jordan.

The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage claims that having an Israeli stamp does not disqualify someone from visiting Saudi Arabia.[294]

Iran refuses admission to holders of passports containing an Israeli visa or stamp that is less than 12 months old.

Armenian ethnicity
Main article: Armenia–Azerbaijan relations

Due to a state of war existing between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the government of Azerbaijan not only bars entry of Armenian citizens, but also all citizens and nationals of any other country who are of Armenian descent, into the Republic of Azerbaijan.[295][296]

Azerbaijan also strictly bans any visit by foreign citizens to the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh[297] (the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh), its surrounding territories, and the Azerbaijani exclaves of Karki, Yuxarı Əskipara, Barxudarlı, and Sofulu which are de jure part of Azerbaijan but under the control of Armenia, without the prior consent of the government of Azerbaijan. Foreign citizens who enter these territories will be permanently banned from entering the Republic of Azerbaijan[298] and will be included in their "list of personae non gratae".[299] As of 2 September 2019, the list mentioned 852 people.

Upon request, the authorities of the largely unrecognised Republic of Artsakh may attach their visa and/or stamps to a separate piece of paper in order to avoid detection of travel to their territory.

Biometrics
See also: Countries applying biometrics
A fingerprint scanner at Dulles International Airport collects biometric data on visitors, which can be used for confirming identities.

Several countries mandate that all travellers, or all foreign travellers, be fingerprinted on arrival and will refuse admission to or even arrest travellers who refuse to comply. In some countries, such as the United States, this may apply even to transit passengers who merely wish to quickly change planes rather than go landside.[300]

Fingerprinting countries include Afghanistan,[301][302] Argentina,[303] Brunei, Cambodia,[304] China,[305] Ethiopia,[306] Ghana, Guinea,[307] India, Japan,[308][309] Kenya (fingerprints and photo),[310] Malaysia upon entry and departure,[311] Paraguay, Saudi Arabia,[312] Singapore, South Korea,[313] Taiwan, Thailand,[314] Uganda[315] and the United States.

Many countries also require a photo be taken of people entering the country. The United States, which does not fully implement exit control formalities at its land frontiers (although long mandated by its legislature),[316] [317] [318] intends to implement facial recognition for passengers departing from international airports to identify people who overstay their visa.[319]

Together with fingerprint and face recognition, iris scanning is one of three biometric identification technologies internationally standardised since 2006 by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for use in e-passports[320] and the United Arab Emirates conducts iris scanning on visitors who need to apply for a visa.[321][322] The United States Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to greatly increase the biometric data it collects at US borders.[323] In 2018, Singapore began trials of iris scanning at three land and maritime immigration checkpoints.[324][325]

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See also

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