Visa requirements for Canadian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Canada. As of May 2018, Canadian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 185 countries and territories, ranking the Canadian passport 5th in terms of travel freedom (tied with the Belgian, Danish, Irish and Swiss passports) according to the Henley Passport Index.
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Visa requirements map
Maps Visa requirements for Canadian citizens
Changes
Visa requirements for Canadian citizens were lifted by Austria (1956), Finland (1958), Japan (20 September 1964), Micronesia (18 December 1980), Taiwan (1 January 1994), Ukraine (1 August 2005), Kyrgyzstan (27 July 2012), Mongolia (1 January 2014), Kazakhstan (1 January 2017) and Argentina (1 January 2018).
Canadian citizens were made eligible for eVisas by India (1 May 2015), Brazil (25 January 2018) and Angola (30 March 2018).
Visa requirements
Dependent, Disputed, or Restricted territories
Visa requirements for Canadian citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas, partially recognized countries, and restricted zones:
- Africa
- British Indian Ocean Territory -- special permit required.
- Eritrea (outside Asmara) -- visa covers Asmara only; to travel in the rest of the country, a Travel Permit for Foreigners is required (20 Eritrean nakfa).
- Mayotte -- Visa not required for 90 days with a 180 day period.
- Reunion -- Visa not required for 90 days within a 180 day period.
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Ascension Island -- Entry Permit must be obtained minimum 28 days in advance (3 months for 20/30 pounds sterling, single/double entry).
- Saint Helena -- Visitor's Pass granted on arrival valid for 4/10/21/60/90 days for 12/14/16/20/25 pound sterling.
- Tristan da Cunha -- 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.
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara controlled territory) -- undefined visa regime.
- Somaliland -- visa required (30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival).
- Asia
- Hainan -- Visa on arrival for 15 days. Available at Haikou Meilan International Airport and Sanya Phoenix International Airport.
Visa not required for 15 days for traveling as part of a tourist group (5 or more people) - Hong Kong -- Visa not required for 3 months.
- India -- Protected Area Permit (PAP) required for all of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and parts of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand. Restricted Area Permit (RAP) required for all of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep and parts of Sikkim. Some of these requirements are occasionally lifted for a year.
- Macao -- Visa not required for 30 days.
- North Korea outside Pyongyang - People are not allowed to leave the capital city, tourists can only leave the capital with a governmental tourist guide (no independent moving)
- Taiwan -- Visa not required for 90 days.
- Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province -- OIVR permit required (15+5 Tajikistani Somoni) and another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.
- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Tibet Travel Permit required.
- Korean Demilitarized Zone -- restricted zone.
- UNDOF Zone and Ghajar -- restricted zones.
- Arab League -- Certain countries will deny access to holders of Israeli visas or passport stamps of Israel because of the Arab League boycott of Israel.
- Saudi Arabia - Non-Muslims are not allowed in Mecca or Medina.
- Caribbean and North Atlantic
- Anguilla -- Visa not required for 3 months.
- Aruba -- Visa not required for 30 days.
- Bermuda -- Visa not required.
- Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba -- Visa not required for 3 months.
- British Virgin Islands -- Visa not required.
- Cayman Islands -- Visa not required for 6 months.
- Curacao -- Visa not required for 3 months.
- Montserrat -- Visa not required for 6 months.
- Puerto Rico -- Visa not required for 180 days, same as the United States mainland.
- Sint Maarten -- Visa not required for 3 months.
- Turks and Caicos Islands -- Visa not required for 90 days.
- U.S. Virgin Islands -- Visa not required for 6 months, same as the United States mainland.
- Europe
- Abkhazia -- Visa required. Visa on arrival available if arriving from Russian border only by train or car and must process a multi entry Russian visa to be eligible and must exit via Russian border only.
- Mount Athos -- Special permit required (4 days: 25 euro for Orthodox visitors, 35 euro for non-Orthodox visitors, 18 euro for students). There is a visitors' quota: maximum 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox per day and women are not allowed.
- Brest and Grodno -- Visa not required for 10 days.
- Crimea -- Visa issued by Russia is required.
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -- Visa free access for 3 months. Passport required.
- UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus -- Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.
- Gibraltar -- Visa not required.
- Jan Mayen -- permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.
- Svalbard of Norway - Unlimited Stay (Indefinite Stay).
- Kosovo -- visa free for 90 days.
- Artsakh -- Visa required (issued for single entry for 21 days/1/2/3 months or multiple entry visa for 1/2/3 months). Travellers with a visa (expired or valid) or evidence of travel to Republic of Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan.
- South Ossetia -- Visa free. Multiple entry visa to Russia and three-day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.
- Transnistria -- Visa free. Registration required after 24h.
- Oceania
- American Samoa -- 30 day entry permit issued on arrival.
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands -- special authorisation required.
- Clipperton Island -- special permit required.
- Cook Islands -- Visa free access for 31 days.
- Guam -- Visa not required.
- Niue -- Visa on arrival valid for 30 days is issued free of charge.
- Northern Mariana Islands -- Visa not required.
- Pitcairn Islands -- 14 days visa free and landing fee 35 USD or tax of 5 USD if not going ashore.
- United States Minor Outlying Islands -- special permits required for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island.
- South America
- Galápagos -- Online pre-registration is required. Transit Control Card must also be obtained at the airport prior to departure.
- South Atlantic and Antarctica
- Falkland Islands -- Visitor Permit valid for 4 weeks is issued on arrival.
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands -- Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).
- 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.
Non-visa restrictions
Passport validity length
Many countries require passports to be valid for at least 6 months upon arrival. Note that some nations have bilateral agreements with other countries to shorten the passport validity cut-off period for each other's citizens.
Countries requiring passports to be valid at least 6 months on arrival include Afghanistan, Algeria, Anguilla, Bahrain, Bhutan, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq (except when arriving at Basra and Erbil or Sulaimaniyah), Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Somaliland, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen and Zimbabwe.
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 European Union countries (except Denmark, Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and always excepting EU/EEA/Swiss nationals), Albania, Belarus, Georgia, Honduras, Iceland, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Nauru, Panama, Saint Barthélemy, San Marino, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.
Bermuda requires passports to be valid for at least 45 days upon entry.
Countries that require a passport validity of at least 1 month on arrival include Eritrea, Hong Kong, Macao, New Zealand and South Africa.
Other countries require either a passport valid on arrival or a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay.
Blank passport pages
Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages in the passport being presented, generally one or two pages. Endorsement pages which oftentimes appear after the visa pages are not counted.
Vaccination
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.
Israeli stamps
Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen 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: "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." 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.
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 (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 (the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh), its surrounding territories and the Azerbaijani exclaves of Karki, Yuxar? ?skipara, Barxudarl? 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 occupied territories will be permanently banned from entering the Republic of Azerbaijan and will be included in their "list of personae non gratae". As of late 2017 the list contains 699 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.
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.
Fingerprinting
Several countries including Argentina, Brunei, Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea and the United States demand all travellers, or all foreign travellers, to be fingerprinted on arrival.
Criminal record
Some countries (for example, Canada and the United States) routinely deny entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record.
Consular protection of Canadian citizens abroad
Canada has diplomatic and consular offices (including honorary consuls) in over 270 locations in approximately 180 foreign countries.
Foreign travel statistics
According to the statistics these are the numbers of Canadian visitors to various countries per annum in 2015 (unless otherwise noted):
See also
- Visa policy of Canada
- Canadian passport
References and Notes
- References
- Notes
External links
- Travel Reports & Warnings - Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
- Directory of Canadian Government Offices Abroad - Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Source of article : Wikipedia
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