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Tourist Visa on Arrival

MaldivesShort stays and visits

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For the relevant traveller scope, is a visa, electronic authorisation, visa on arrival or no advance visa normally required?

The Tourist Visa is granted on arrival; visitors must satisfy the basic entry requirements to get immigration clearance on arrival. Since 15 April 2025 entry is not granted on Israeli passports.

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What maximum stay, rolling-period rule, validity and entry rules apply?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the maximum stay, validity and entry rules.

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  • Searched both tourist captures (3bb26fa62f8e7a3c.txt) for a stay length, day count, validity or rolling-period rule: none is stated.

What important funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel or passport evidence may be required?

Travellers need a passport or travel document with a Machine-Readable Zone and at least 1 month's validity (extended-validity passports not accepted; children need their own passport), a complete itinerary with confirmed return tickets, a prepaid confirmed booking at a registered facility and sufficient funds for the stay (or an Immigration-approved sponsorship), compliance with the next destination's entry requirements, and a Yellow Fever vaccination certificate if arriving from or recently through a risk country (children under one exempt).

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Where/how is permission obtained when required, and under what important circumstances can a stay be extended or changed?

Every traveller completes and submits the Traveller Declaration on the IMUGA portal (imuga.immigration.gov.mv) up to 96 hours before arrival, electronically and free of charge, and presents it at immigration on arrival; entry is granted at the port of entry after Immigration officers determine admissibility. Tourists can apply for visa extensions by logging into the IMUGA portal; since 23 April 2026 extension applications are expected to be completed within 48 hours. The official source does not state the conditions or maximum length of an extension.

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  • The official sources do not state the conditions or maximum length of an extension, nor whether the tourist visa can be changed to another category in-country.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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