British Virgin Islands
Egyptian passportEdit check
e-Visa, stay set by the visa
Before you travel: you need an e-visa.
How long you may stay is set by your visa.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Source & evidence Read the original words
Official wording
Nationals of the Following Countries listed below require a visa to enter the BVI.
• Afghanistan
• Guinea-Bissau
•Philippines
• Albania
• Haiti
• Qatar
• Algeria
• Indonesia
• Russian Republic(Federation)
• Angola
• Iran
• Rwanda
• Armenia
• Iraq
• Sao Tome & Principle
• Azerbaijan
• Israel
• Saudi Arabia
• Bahrain
• Ivory Coast
• Senegal
• Belarus
• Jamaica
• Somalia
• Benin
• Jordan
• Sudan
• Bhutan
• Kazakhstan
• Surinam
• Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Kuwait
•Syria
• Burkina
• Kyrgyzstan
• Taiwan (for purposes other than tourism and business)
• Burundi
• Laos
• Tajikistan
• Burma
• Lebanon
• Thailand
• Cambodia
• Liberia
• Togo
• Cameroon
• Libya
• Turkey
• Cape Verde
• Republic of North Macedonia
• Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
• Central African Republic
• Madagascar
• Turkmenistan
• Chad
• Mali
• Ukraine
• China(for the purpose other than tourism and business, not including Hong Kong (SAR)
• Mauritania
• United Arab Emirates
• Colombia
• Moldova
• Uzbekistan
• Comoros
• Mongolia
• Vietnam
• Congo
• Morocco
• Yemen
• Cuba
• Mozambique
• Zaire
• Djibouti
• Myanmar
• Dominican Republic
• Nepal
• Egypt
• Niger
• Equatorial Guinea
• Nigeria
• Eritrea
• North Korea
• Ethiopia
• Oman
• Gabon
• Pakistan
• Georgia
• Palestine
• Guinea
• Peru
Aevamo’s reading
The Immigration and Passport Act (Cap 130) is the instrument that creates the obligation: section 20 forbids landing without the leave of an immigration officer, section 37 requires a passport and, where required, a visa to be produced, and section 37(4) empowers the Cabinet to exempt classes of persons by Order. The visa list published by the BVI London Office is the Government's own current statement of how that Act and the Visa Exemption Order made under it apply; the Order itself is unreachable because laws.gov.vg is under scheduled maintenance.
The quoted passage is the Government's own list of nationalities that must hold a visa to enter the BVI; every issuer in this row is named in that list (stateless and refugee document holders fall under the same general visa requirement because they are not nationals of any exempted country).
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
bvi-london-visas: undated page, current as fetched on 2026-08-22 (records the Online ED card required from 1 January 2025). bvi-act-archive2: 'Revision Date: 30 June 2013'. uk-fcdo-bvi: current as of 2026-08-22.
Other entry routes 1 alternatives
These routes depend on a different document or additional conditions.
Visa-free, 6 months
The traveller must hold a valid United Kingdom, United States or Canadian visa with more than six months of validity before travel to the Territory, and the visit must be for six months or less and for work, business, tourism or related matters.
What this answer covers Limits & assumptions
Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.