Visa · Maldives
Eligibility depends on your passport and circumstances. The authorities decide whether documents are issued and entry is granted.
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Three steps
- Tell us about your trip and travellers
- Add the documents listed for your profile
- Review your file, then track its status
What you get
- Guided form, saved as you go
- Document checklist matched to your profile
- Itemised price shown before any commitment
- Status tracking in your account
Independent private service. The authority alone decides on issuance and entry. No real payment is taken at this stage.
Visa
A visa is an official permission subject to specified conditions. The application channel may differ by destination and visa category.
- Original product name (French source)
- Visa touristique à l’arrivée — Maldives
- Destination
- Maldives
Sources and review status
Review date recorded; current rules still need confirmation.
Dates describe an editorial record, not a live check or legal validity. Review is due after 90 days; rules can change sooner. Open the linked source before relying on this guide.
Recorded review date
- Maldives Immigration — Tourist Visa
Recorded review date:
Review date recorded; current rules still need confirmation.
Check the source's passport, residence, travel purpose and territorial scope; this link alone does not establish that it covers your case.
Still to establish
- No passport list is encoded for comparison. Check your passport with the authority; omission does not mean exclusion or exemption.
- No stay limit is encoded for comparison. Confirm the permitted stay, how days are counted and any cumulative limits.
Travel purposes recorded in this source
The listed purposes do not establish permission to work or undertake other activities.
- Tourism
Prepare and verify
- Confirm the appropriate visa category and application channel for your passport, travel purpose and circumstances.
- Check the required evidence, timing and fees with the authority, then verify any issued visa and its conditions.
Your next checks
- Write down the passport you will use and its type, your country of residence and your planned activities. Residence and interface language do not replace passport nationality.
- List arrival and departure dates, transit stops and entry points. Check each leg separately, including whether you pass immigration during transit.
- Open the official instructions for that profile. Record the required documents, submission window, fees and processing guidance; mark anything the source does not confirm as unresolved.
- If a condition is unclear, contact the competent authority with your passport country, residence, purpose and dates. Recheck before departure and after a passport or itinerary change.
What else should I know?
This category alone does not mean a visa can be obtained on arrival. Visa approval and admission at the border are separate decisions.
Who can apply
Eligibility depends on your passport and circumstances. The authorities decide whether documents are issued and entry is granted.
The source guide below is currently available in French.
Visa touristique à l’arrivée — Maldives
Visa touristique délivré à l’arrivée après examen des conditions d’entrée.
Passeport ou document reconnu avec zone MRZ et validité requise, retour confirmé, hébergement prépayé enregistré et ressources ou parrainage approuvé.
- Vérifier passeport, retour, hébergement et ressources.
- Soumettre la Traveller Declaration sur IMUGA dans les 96 heures avant l’arrivée.
- Présenter les justificatifs au contrôle d’immigration pour la décision d’admission.
- L’entrée sur passeport israélien est interdite depuis le 15 avril 2025 selon l’avis officiel.
- Les mineurs doivent avoir leur propre passeport ; le visa ne nécessite pas de pré-approbation touristique.
Official sources
Advice from a foreign government may be intended for its own nationals. Check the destination authority's requirements for your passport and circumstances; an advisory is not a universal eligibility decision.
- www.immigration.gov.mv ↗Source checked on 2026-09-28
