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Visitor Visa on Arrival / Visa Waiver — Eligible Nationalities

TongaShort 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?

Nationals of the countries listed on Tonga's visa page are not required to apply for a visa to enter Tonga; passport holders of the listed Schengen countries may travel to Tonga visa-free. A non-Tongan citizen of a country not listed needs a letter of authority allowing travel to Tonga and must apply for a visitor's visa on arrival.

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What short-visit purposes does this route cover?

For travellers under the EU–Tonga short-stay visa waiver, the waiver does not apply to persons travelling to carry out a paid activity, unless the parties decide otherwise country by country. The official source does not list the permitted visit purposes.

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Limits of the record
  • Tonga's visa-waiver page lists no permitted visit purposes for the 31-day visa on arrival.
  • The EUR-Lex text is a summary covering all EU visa waiver agreements, not the Tonga agreement text itself.

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

Nationals of the listed countries are issued on arrival a free visitor's visa for 31 days, extendable up to six months; listed countries that are Schengen Member States get an automatic 90 days on arrival. The EU–Tonga short-stay visa waiver agreement (provisional application from 21 November 2015) provides visa-free travel for a maximum of 90 days in any 180-day period.

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Limits of the record
  • The EUR-Lex table records the Tonga agreement under 'provisional application' from 21 November 2015, not full entry into force.
  • Tonga's page lists the 90-day Schengen countries separately from its 31-day list and the two lists do not match EU/Schengen membership exactly (e.g. Ireland and Cyprus appear only on the 31-day list; Iceland and Liechtenstein only on the Schengen list); which rule applies to each nationality is not reconciled by the sources.

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

The stated condition for visa-waiver entry to Tonga is a valid return ticket out of Tonga to a country the traveller will be able to enter.

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

Nationals of the listed countries are issued on arrival a free visitor's visa for 31 days, extendable up to six months. For travellers under the EU visa waiver agreements, the agreements do not normally affect the parties' ability to extend a stay beyond 90 days under their national laws and EU law. The official source does not state where or how an extension is requested.

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Limits of the record
  • The sources do not state where or how an extension is requested in Tonga.
  • The EUR-Lex text is a general summary of all EU visa waiver agreements, not the Tonga agreement text.
  • The 31-day on-arrival visa's extension up to six months is recorded under R3 (same source sentence).

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

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