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Visa requirements for Sammarinese citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of San Marino. As of 26 March 2019, San Marino citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 169 countries and territories, ranking the San Marino passport 19th in terms of travel freedom (tied with the passports of Bulgaria and Hong Kong (SAR China)) according to the Henley Passport Index.^[1] Currently (as of 2018) the San Marino passport is one of the three European "ordinary" passports to provide visa-free access to the People's Republic of China.

Besides the Sammarinese passport, there are only 3 other passports that provide either visa-free entry, or entry via an electronic travel authorisation, to the world's four largest economies: China (visa-free, 90 days), India (e-Visa, 60 days), the European Union (visa-free, 90 days within 180 days), and the United States (ESTA, 90 days): those of Brunei, Japan, and Singapore.

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Visa requirements for Sammarinese citizens

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Visa requirements

Country	Visa requirement	Allowed stay	Notes (excluding departure fees)
Afghanistan	Visa required[2]
Albania	Visa not required[3]	90 days
Algeria	Visa required[4]
Andorra	Visa not required[5]
Angola	Visa required[6]
Antigua and Barbuda	Visa not required[7]	1 month
Argentina	Visa not required[8]	90 days
Armenia	Visa not required[9]	120 days
Australia	eVisitor[10]	90 days	90 days on each visit in 12-month period if granted
Austria	Visa not required[11]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Azerbaijan	Visa required[12]
Bahamas	Visa not required[13]	8 months
Bahrain	eVisa / Visa on arrival[14]	14 days
Bangladesh	Visa on arrival[15]	30 days
Barbados	Visa not required[16]	6 months
Belarus	Visa not required[17]	30 days	Must arrive and depart via Minsk International Airport.
Belgium	Visa not required[18]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Belize	Visa required[19]
Benin	eVisa / Visa on arrival[20][21]	30 days / 8 days	Must have an international vaccination certificate.
Bhutan	Visa required[22]
Bolivia	Visa on arrival[23]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Visa not required[24]	90 days	90 days within any 6 month period
Botswana	Visa not required[25]	90 days
Brazil	Visa not required[26]	90 days
Brunei	Visa required[27]
Bulgaria	Visa not required[28]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Burkina Faso	Visa required[29]
Burundi	Visa required[30]
Cambodia	eVisa / Visa on arrival[31]	30 days	Visa is also obtainable online.[32]
Cameroon	Visa required[33]
Canada	Visa not required[34]	6 months	eTA required if arriving by air.[35]
Cape Verde	Visa not required[36]	30 days
Central African Republic	Visa required[37]
Chad	Visa required[38]
Chile	Visa not required[39]	90 days
China	Visa not required[40]	90 days
Colombia	Visa not required[41]	180 days	90 days - extendable up to 180-days stay within a one year period
Comoros	Visa on arrival[42]
Republic of the Congo	Visa required[43]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Visa required[44]
Costa Rica	Visa not required[45]	90 days
Côte d'Ivoire	Visa required[46]
Croatia	Visa not required[47]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Cuba	Tourist Card required[48]
Cyprus	Visa not required[49]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Czech Republic	Visa not required[50]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Denmark	Visa not required[51]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Djibouti	eVisa[52]	31 days
Dominica	Visa not required[53]	21 days
Dominican Republic	Visa not required[54]	90 days
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	Visa not required[60]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Eswatini	Visa not required[61]	30 days
Ethiopia	eVisa[62]	up to 90 days	eVisa holders must arrive via Addis Ababa Bole International Airport
Fiji	Visa required[63]
Finland	Visa not required[64]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
France	Visa not required[65]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Gabon	eVisa[66]		Electronic visa holders must arrive via Libreville International Airport.
Gambia	Visa not required[67]	90 days
Georgia	Visa not required[68]	1 year
Germany	Visa not required[69]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Ghana	Visa required[70]
Greece	Visa not required[71]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Grenada	Visa not required[72]	3 months
Guatemala	Visa not required[73]	90 days
Guinea	Visa required[74]
Guinea-Bissau	eVisa / Visa on arrival[75]	90 days
Guyana	Visa required[76]
Haiti	Visa not required[77]	90 days
Honduras	Visa not required[78]	3 months
Hungary	Visa not required[79]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Iceland	Visa not required[80]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
India	e-Visa[81]	60 days	e-Visa holders must arrive via 26 designated airports[Note 1] or 3 designated seaports.[Note 2][82] An Indian e-Tourist Visa can only be obtained twice in one calendar year.
Indonesia	Visa not required[83]	30 days	Select ports of entry.
Iran	Visa on arrival[84]	15 days[85]
Iraq	Visa required[86]
Ireland	Visa not required[87]	90 days
Israel	Visa not required[88]	3 months
Italy	Visa not required[89]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Jamaica	Visa not required[90]	90 days
Japan	Visa not required[91]	90 days
Jordan	Visa on arrival[92]		Conditions apply[93]
Kazakhstan	Visa required[94]
Kenya	Visa not required[95]	3 months
Kiribati	Visa required[96]
North Korea	Visa required[97]
South Korea	Visa not required[98]	30 days
Kuwait	eVisa / Visa on arrival[99]	3 months
Kyrgyzstan	eVisa / Visa on arrival[100]	1 month	Available at Manas International Airport.
Laos	Visa on arrival[101]	30 days	Conditions apply. Available at international airports Luangphabang, Pakse, Savannakhet and Vientiane, and at 4 land borders Friendship Bridge,[Note 3] and at 13 border crossings[Note 4] as well as Tanalaeng train station in Vientiane, which connects to the train station in Nongkai, Thailand.[102] Entry points Lalai, Lantui, Meuang mom, Pakxan, and Phoudou are open only to visa holders. Extendable up to 60 days.
Latvia	Visa not required[103]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Lebanon	Visa on arrival[104]	1 month	Extendable for 2 additional months Granted free of charge at Beirut International Airport or any other port of entry if there is no Israeli visa or seal, holding a telephone number, an address in Lebanon, and a non refundable return or circle trip ticket.
Lesotho	Visa not required[105]	90 days
Liberia	Visa required[106]
Libya	Visa required[107]
Liechtenstein	Visa not required[108]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Lithuania	Visa not required[109]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Luxembourg	Visa not required[110]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Macedonia	Visa not required[111]	90 days
Madagascar	Visa on arrival[112]	90 days
Malawi	Visa on arrival[113]
Malaysia	Visa not required[114]	3 months
Maldives	Visa on arrival[115]	30 days
Mali	Visa required[116]
Malta	Visa not required[117]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Marshall Islands	Visa required[118]
Mauritania	Visa on arrival[119]		Available at Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport.
Mauritius	Visa not required[120]	90 days
Mexico	Visa not required[121]	180 days
Micronesia	Visa not required[122]	30 days
Moldova	Visa not required[123]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Monaco	Visa not required[124]
Mongolia	Visa required[125]
Montenegro	Visa not required[126]	90 days
Morocco	Visa not required[127]	90 days
Mozambique	Visa on arrival[128]	30 days
Myanmar	Visa required[129]
Namibia	Visa required[130]
Nauru	Visa required[131]
Nepal	Visa on arrival[132]	90 days
Netherlands	Visa not required[133]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
New Zealand	Visa not required[134]	3 months
Nicaragua	Visa not required[135]	90 days
Niger	Visa required[136]
Nigeria	Visa required[137]
Norway	Visa not required[138]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Oman	eVisa[139]	30 days
Pakistan	Visa required[140]
Palau	Visa on arrival[141]	30 days
Panama	Visa not required[142]	180 days
Papua New Guinea	eVisa / Free visa on arrival[143]	60 days
Paraguay	Visa required[144]
Peru	Visa not required[145]	183 days
Philippines	Visa not required[146]	30 days
Poland	Visa not required[147]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Portugal	Visa not required[148]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Qatar	Visa not required[149]	30 days
Romania	Visa not required[150]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Russia	Visa required[151]
Rwanda	eVisa / Visa on arrival[152]	30 days
Saint Kitts and Nevis	eVisa[153]
Saint Lucia	Visa not required[154]	6 weeks
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Visa not required[155]	1 month
Samoa	Entry Permit on arrival[156]	60 days
São Tomé and Príncipe	Visa not required[157]	15 days[158][159]
Saudi Arabia	Visa required[160]
Senegal	Visa required[161]
Serbia	Visa not required[162]	90 days
Seychelles	Visitor's Permit on arrival[163]	3 months
Sierra Leone	Visa required[164]
Singapore	Visa not required[165]	30 days
Slovakia	Visa not required[166]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Slovenia	Visa not required[167]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Solomon Islands	Visitor's permit on arrival[168]	3 months
Somalia	Visa on arrival[169]		Available at Berbera, Borama, Burao, Erigavo and Hargeisa airports. 30 days, available at Bosaso Airport, Galcaio Airport and Mogadishu Airport.
South Africa	Visa not required[170]	90 days
South Sudan	Visa required[171]
Spain	Visa not required[172]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Sri Lanka	eVisa / Visa on arrival[173]	30 days
Sudan	Visa required[174]
Suriname	Visa required[175]
Sweden	Visa not required[176]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Switzerland	Visa not required[177]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period in the Schengen Area
Syria	Visa required[178]
Tajikistan	eVisa[179][180]	45 days
Tanzania	eVisa / Visa on arrival[181][182]	3 months
Thailand	Visa not required[183]	30 days	Visa-free from 14 April 2019.[184]
Timor-Leste	Visa on arrival[185]	30 days
Togo	Visa on arrival[186]	7 days
Tonga	Visa required[187]
Trinidad and Tobago	Visa required[188]
Tunisia	Visa not required[189]	3 months
Turkey	Visa not required[190]	3 months
Turkmenistan	Visa required[191]
Tuvalu	Visa on arrival[192]	1 month
Uganda	eVisa / Visa on arrival[193]		May apply online.[194]
Ukraine	Visa not required[195]	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
United Arab Emirates	Visa on arrival[196]	30 days
United Kingdom excluding some Overseas territories	Visa not required[197]	6 months
United States	Visa not required	90 days	On arrival from overseas; ESTA (valid for 2 years when issued) required if arriving by air or cruise ship.[198]
Uruguay	Visa not required[199]	90 days
Uzbekistan	Visa not required[200]	30 days
Vanuatu	Visa not required[201]	30 days
Vatican City	Visa not required[202]
Venezuela	Visa not required[203]	90 days
Vietnam	eVisa[204]	30 days
Yemen	Visa required[205]
Zambia	eVisa / Visa on arrival[206]	90 days
Zimbabwe	eVisa / Visa on arrival[207]	3 months	30 days for visits on business, 3 months for tourists

Dependent, disputed, or restricted territories

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

Asia - Europe
Visitor to	Visa requirement	Notes (excluding departure fees)
Hong Kong	Visa not required[208]	90 days
Macao	Visa not required[209]	30 days
Kosovo	Visa not required[210]	90 days[211]

Non-visa restrictions

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,^[212]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,^[213]Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Vietnam.^[214]

Turkey requires passports to be valid for at least 150 days upon entry.

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

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

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

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^[215][216] or even accept passports that have already expired (but not been cancelled).^[217]

Blank passport pages

Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages in the passport being presented, generally one or two pages.^[218] 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

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, and 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 or has visited one recently.^[219]

Israeli stamps

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

Kuwait,^[220] Lebanon,^[221] Libya,^[222] Saudi Arabia,^[223] Sudan,^[224] Syria,^[225] and Yemen^[226] 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. Since 15 January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Ben Gurion Airport, giving passengers a card instead that reads: "Since January 2013 a pilot scheme has been introduced whereby visitors are given an entry card instead of an entry stamp on arrival. You should keep this card with your passport until you leave. This is evidence of your legal entry into Israel and may be required, particularly at any crossing points into the Occupied Palestinian Territories." ^[227] Passports are still (as of 22 June 2017^[update]) stamped at Erez when travelling into and out of Gaza. Also, passports are still stamped (as of 22 June 2017^[update]) at the Jordan Valley/Sheikh Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin/Arava land borders with Jordan.

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

Armenian ethnicity

Due to a state of war existing between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the government of Azerbaijan not only bans entry of citizens from Armenia, but also all citizens and nationals of any other country who are of Armenian descent, to the Republic of Azerbaijan^[228][229] (although there have been exceptions, notably for Armenia's participation at the 2015 European Games held in Azerbaijan).

Azerbaijan also strictly bans any visit by foreign citizens to the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh^[230] (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 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^[231] and will be included in their "list of personae non gratae".^[232] As of January 2019, the list contains 795 persons.

Upon request, the authorities of the largely unrecognized 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 country.

Criminal record

Some countries (for example: Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, and the United States ^[233]) 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.

Attempts to enter the Gaza strip by sea may attract a 10-year ban on entering Israel.^{[citation needed]}

Fingerprinting

Iris recognition biometric systems apply mathematical pattern-recognition techniques to images of the irises of an individual's eyes.

Several countries mandate that all travellers, or all foreign travellers, be fingerprinted on arrival and will refuse admission to or even arrest those travellers that 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.^[234]

Fingerprinting countries include Afghanistan,^[235][236] Argentina,^[237]
Brunei,
Cambodia,^[238]
China,^[239]
Ethiopia,^[240]
Ghana, India,
Japan,^[241][242]
Malaysia upon entry and departure,^[243]
Paraguay, Saudi Arabia,^[244] Singapore, South Korea,^[245] and Taiwan.^[246]

Additionally, the United Arab Emirates conducts iris scanning on visitors who need to apply for a visa.^[247][248]

See also

• Visa policy of San Marino


• Visa policy of the Schengen Area


• Sammarinese passport


• Foreign relations of San Marino

References and Notes

References

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