# Maldives entry answer

Jamaica passport → Maldives
Entry date: 2026-09-12

Visa on arrival, 30 days
No advance visa, you get one on arrival.
You may stay up to 30 days.

Conditions:
- A passport or travel document with Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) with at least 1 month validity. (Passengers with extended validity in their passports are not allowed to enter.)
- A complete travel itinerary, including confirmed return journey tickets, prepaid confirmed booking at a registered facility, and sufficient funds to cover the stay in the Maldives, or a pre-approved sponsorship visa from Maldives Immigration
- Entry requirements to their onward destinations; for example, the visa and passport validity
- All foreigners arriving in the Maldives must complete and submit the 'Traveller Declaration' form. The form can be completed up to 96 hours (4 days) before your arrival in Maldives. Submission of the form is free of charge and must be filled electronically via the IMUGA portal.
- Yellow Fever Vaccination Certificate, if applicable. Children under 1 year of age are exempt from Yellow Fever vaccination.
- A complete travel itinerary does not guarantee entry to Maldives. Entry will be granted at the port of entry after determination of admissibility by Immigration officers, as per Section 7 and 8 of The Maldives Immigration Act 2007
- A tourist visa is the permit to remain in the Maldives
                         granted in accordance with subsections (b) and (c) of … this section to a visiting foreign national, who do not
                           have the intention to be employed or work to earn any
                           incomes in the Maldives.
- (c) The Controller of Immigration and Emigration shall
                           have the discretion to grant leave to a foreign national
                           entering the Maldives pursuant to subsection (a), to
                           remain in the Maldives for a period not exceeding 90
                           days from the date of entry of that visit to the
                           Maldives, after the fee specified in the Annex of this
                           Act has been paid

Source: https://www.immigration.gov.mv/visa/tourist-visa
Source checked: 2026-08-20
Data snapshot: 2026-09-10

This establishes the recorded entry rule and stay allowance, not admission, work permission, residence rights or a tax position.
https://aevamo.com/requirements/jam/mdv/

## Source passage

> Tourist visa is granted on arrival to the Maldives. Foreigners traveling to Maldives as tourists do not require pre-approval for the visa.

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