Guam
Taiwan passportEdit check
Travel authorisation, 90 days
Before you travel: you need a travel authorisation (ESTA). The authorisation itself is valid 730 days, that is not how long you may stay.
The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions2 to check
- Beginning on April 1, 2016, the passport is an electronic passport that is fraud-resistant, contains relevant biographic and biometric information (as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security), and otherwise satisfies internationally accepted standards for electronic passports.
- The passport is a machine-readable passport that is tamper-resistant, incorporates document authentication identifiers, and otherwise satisfies the internationally accepted standard for machine readability.
Your stay
Add your arrival date to work out the stay that fits this rule.
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Official wording
The Visa Waiver Program (VWP), administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in consultation with the Department of State, permits citizens of designated countries to travel to the United States for business or tourism for stays of up to 90 days without a visa. … The following countries are currently designated for participation in the VWP. … Taiwan‡ … Taiwan refers only to individuals who have unrestricted right of permanent abode on Taiwan and are in possession of an electronic passport bearing a personal identification (household registration) number. … Eligible citizens or nationals from VWP countries must obtain approval through ESTA prior to traveling to the United States under the VWP.
Aevamo’s reading
8 CFR 212.1 is the regulation that imposes the visa and documentary requirement on arriving nonimmigrant aliens (chapeau) and that creates and specifies the Visa Waiver Program exemption (i), the Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Program (paragraph (q)) and the CNMI EVS-TAP (paragraph (r)); it implements INA 212 and Pub. L. 110-229 and is the operative instrument for who may enter Guam and the CNMI without a visa.
The DHS page designates Taiwan for the VWP subject to the note limiting it to individuals with unrestricted right of permanent abode on Taiwan holding an electronic passport with a personal identification number; those who qualify obtain ESTA and 90 days.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
eCFR current text fetched 2026-08-29; contains amendments through the 2024-2025 Federal Register rules (electronic travel authorization and EVS-TAP).
Other entry routes 1 alternatives
These routes depend on a different document or additional conditions.
Travel authorisation, 45 days
Be in possession of a valid unexpired ICAO compliant, machine readable passport issued by a country that meets the eligibility requirements of paragraph (q)(2) of this section
Be in possession of a round trip ticket that is nonrefundable and nontransferable and bears a confirmed departure date not exceeding forty-five days from the date of admission to Guam or the CNMI
To be eligible to participate in the program as a result of a connection to Taiwan, one must be a resident of Taiwan who begins his or her travel in Taiwan and who travels on direct flights from Taiwan to Guam or the CNMI without an intermediate layover or stop, except that the flights may stop in a territory of the United States en route, and must be in possession of a Taiwan National Identity Card and a valid Taiwan passport with a valid re-entry permit issued by the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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.
The rule is one instrument covering 2 places, so this answer is the same for Northern Mariana Islands .
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.