Visa requirements for Czech citizens

Visa requirements for Czech citizens were lifted by Belarus in February 2017,^[2] the Solomon Islands in October 2016,^[3] Tuvalu in July 2016,^[4] the Marshall Islands in June 2016,^[5] Palau (December 2015),^[6] Tonga (November 2015),^[7] São Tomé and Príncipe (August 2015),^[8] Indonesia (June 2015),^[9][10] United Arab Emirates, Timor-Leste, Samoa (May 2015),^{[11][12][13][14]} Cape Verde (1 January 2019)^[15] and Uzbekistan (1 February 2019).^[16]

Czech citizens were made eligible for eVisas recently by Saudi Arabia (September 2019), Suriname and Pakistan (April 2019), Tanzania and Papua New Guinea (November 2018),^[17] Angola (March 2018), Djibouti (February 2018),^[18] Egypt (December 2017),^[19] Azerbaijan (January 2017),^[20] Tajikistan (June 2016),^[21][22] India (e-Tourist visa from February 2016)^[23] and Myanmar (September 2014).^[24]

In 2014, Czech Republic ranked 10th on the list of countries based on the visa requirements for their citizens. This means that Czech citizens could travel to 162 countries and territories visa-free or can obtain visa on arrival.^[25] In 2009 Czech citizens could travel to 131 countries without a visa,^[26] to 142 in 2010,^[27] 152 in 2012,^[28] 167 in 2016,^[29] 168 in 2017,^[30] 182 in 2018,^[31] 181 in 2019,^[32] and 183 in 2020.^[33]

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

Visitor to	Visa requirement	Allowed stay	Notes (excluding departure fees)
Europe
Abkhazia	Visa required[299]
Mount Athos	Special permit required	4 days	Special permit required (EUR 25 for Orthodox visitors, EUR 35 for non-Orthodox visitors, EUR 18 for students). There is a visitors' quota: maximum 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox per day and women are not allowed.[300][301]
Brest and Grodno	Visa not required	Visa-free for 10 days[302]
Northern Cyprus	Visa not required	3 months[303]	ID card valid.
UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus	Access Permit required[304]		Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.
Faroe Islands	Visa not required	90 days	ID card valid.
Gibraltar	Visa not required[305]	6 months	ID card valid.
Guernsey	Visa not required[306]	6 months
Jersey	Visa not required[307]	6 months
Isle of Man	Visa not required[308]	6 months
Jan Mayen	Permit required		Permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours[309] and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.[310]
Kosovo	Visa not required[311]	90 days[312]	ID card valid
Russia	Special authorization required		Several closed cities and regions in Russia require special authorization.[313]
South Ossetia	Russian multiple entry visa required		Multiple entry visa to Russia and three-day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.[314][315]
Transnistria	Visa not required		Registration required after 24h.[316][317]
Africa
British Indian Ocean Territory	Special permit required		Special permit required.[318]
Eritrea outside Asmara	Travel permit required		To travel in the rest of the country, a Travel Permit for Foreigners is required (20 Eritrean nakfa).[319]
Canary Islands	Visa not required	Freedom of movement. ID card valid
Madeira	Visa not required	Freedom of movement. ID card valid
Mayotte	Visa not required	Freedom of movement. ID card valid
Réunion	Visa not required	Freedom of movement. ID card valid
Ascension Island	eVisa[320][321]	3 months within any year period.
Saint Helena	Visitor's Pass on arrival		Visitor's Pass granted on arrival valid for 4/10/21/60/90 days for 12/14/16/20/25 pound sterling.[322]
Tristan da Cunha	Permission required		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.[323]
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	Visa not required	90 days	Same visa regime as Morocco.
Somaliland	Visa on arrival	30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival.[324][325]
Sudan	Travel permit required		All foreigners traveling more than 25 kilometers outside of Khartoum must obtain a travel permit.
Darfur	Travel permit required		Separate travel permit is required.[326]
Asia
Hainan	Visa not required	30 days	Individual tourists need to select a tour agency and inform them their schedule.[327][328]
Hong Kong	Visa not required	90 days[329]
India PAP/RAP	PAP/RAP required		Protected Area Permit (PAP) required for whole states of Nagaland and Sikkim and parts of states Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh. Restricted Area Permit (RAP) required for all of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and parts of Sikkim. Some of these requirements are occasionally lifted for a year.[330][331][332][333][334][335]
Iraqi Kurdistan	eVisa	30 days[336]
Kazakhstan	Special permission required		Special permission required for the town of Baikonur and surrounding areas in Kyzylorda Oblast, and the town of Gvardeyskiy near Almaty.[337]
Kish Island	Visa not required		Visitors to Kish Island do not require a visa.[338]
Macao	Visa not required	90 days[339]
Sabah and Sarawak	Visa not required		These states have their own immigration authorities and passport is required to travel to them, however the same visa applies.[340]
North Korea outside Pyongyang	Special permit required		People are not allowed to leave the capital city, tourists can only leave the capital with a governmental tourist guide (no independent moving)
Palestine	Visa not required[341]		Arrival by sea to Gaza Strip not allowed.[342]
Taiwan	Visa not required	90 days[343]
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province	OVIR permit required		OVIR permit required, can be obtained with e-visa application for an additional USD 20. Locally it may be obtained for 15+5 Tajikistani Somoni. Another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.[344][345][346]
Tibet Autonomous Region	TTP required		Tibet Travel Permit required (10 US Dollars).[347][348][349]
Turkmenistan	Special permit required		A special permit, issued prior to arrival by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is required if visiting the following places: Atamurat, Cheleken, Dashoguz, Serakhs and Serhetabat.[350]
Korean Demilitarized Zone	Restricted zone
UNDOF Zone and Ghajar	Restricted zone
Phú Quốc	Visa not required	30 days[351]
Yemen	Special permission required		Special permission needed for travel outside Sana’a or Aden.[352]
Caribbean and North Atlantic
Azores	Visa not required	Freedom of movement. ID card valid
Anguilla	Visa not required	3 months[353]
Aruba	Visa not required	30 days, extendable to 180 days[354][355]
Bermuda	Visa not required	Up to 6 months, decided on arrival.[356]
Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba	Visa not required	3 months[357][358]
British Virgin Islands	Visa not required	30 days, extensions possible[359]
Cayman Islands	Visa not required	6 months[360]
Curacao	Visa not required	3 months[361]
Greenland	Visa not required	90 days
Guadeloupe	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Martinique	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Montserrat	Visa not required	6 months[362][363]	ID card valid (max. 14 days).[364]
Puerto Rico	Electronic System for Travel Authorization[365]	90 days (same as for USA)	ESTA required.
Saint Barthélemy	Visa not required		ID card valid
Saint Martin	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Visa not required		ID card valid.
San Andrés and Leticia	Tourist card on arrival		Visitors arriving at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport and Alfredo Vásquez Cobo International Airport must buy tourist cards on arrival.[366]
Sint Maarten	Visa not required	3 months[367][368]
Turks and Caicos Islands	Visa not required	90 days[369]
U.S. Virgin Islands	Electronic System for Travel Authorization[370]	90 days	ESTA required.
Oceania
American Samoa	Electronic authorization[371]	30 days
Ashmore and Cartier Islands	Special authorisation required		Special authorisation required.[372]
Clipperton Island	Special permit required		Special permit required.[373]
Cook Islands	Visa not required	31 days[374]
Lau Province	Special permission required		Special permission required.[375]
Guam	Electronic System for Travel Authorization[376]	90 days	ESTA required.
New Caledonia	Visa not required		ID card valid.
Niue	Visa not required[377]	30 days
Northern Mariana Islands	Electronic System for Travel Authorization[378]	90 days	ESTA required.
Pitcairn Islands	Visa not required	14 days	Landing fee USD 35or tax of USD 5 if not going ashore.[379][380][381]
French Polynesia	Visa not required		ID card valid.
Tokelau	Entry permit required[382]
United States Minor Outlying Islands	Special permits required		Special permits required for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island.[383][384][385][386][387][388][389]
Wallis and Futuna	Visa not required		ID card valid.
South America
French Guiana	Visa not required	Freedom of movement. ID card valid.
Galápagos	Online pre-registration required		Online pre-registration is required. Transit Control Card must also be obtained at the airport prior to departure.[390]
South Atlantic and Antarctica
Falkland Islands	Visa not required	1 month	A visitor permit is normally issued as a stamp in the passport on arrival, The maximum validity period is 1 month.[391]
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	Permit required		Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).[392][393]
Antarctica	Permit required		Special permits required for  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.[394][395][396][397][398][399][400][401][402][403][404]

When in a non-EU country where there is no Czech embassy, Czech citizens as EU citizens have the right to get consular protection from the embassy of any other EU country present in that country.

See also List of diplomatic missions of the Czech Republic.

Many countries have entry restrictions on foreigners that go beyond the common requirement of having either a valid visa or a visa exemption. Such restrictions may be health related or impose additional documentation requirements on certain classes of people for diplomatic or political purposes.

Blank passport pages

Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages to be available in the passport being presented, typically one or two pages.^[405] Endorsement pages, which often appear after the visa pages, are not counted as being valid or available.

Vaccination

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia, require all incoming passengers older than nine months to one year^[406] to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, as does the South American territory of French Guiana.^[407]

Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area or has visited one recently or has transited for 12 hours in those countries: Algeria, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Lesotho, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.^[408][409]

Passport validity length

Very few countries, such as Paraguay, just require a valid passport on arrival.

However many countries and groupings now require only an identity card – especially from their neighbours. Other countries may have special bilateral arrangements that depart from the generality of their passport validity length policies to shorten the period of passport validity required for each other's citizens^[410][411] or even accept passports that have already expired (but not been cancelled).^[412]

Some countries, such as Japan,^[413] Ireland and the United Kingdom,^[414] require a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay.

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,^[415] 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, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel,^[416] Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Peru,^[417] Philippines,^[418] Qatar, Rwanda, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Vietnam.^[419]

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 Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Honduras, Montenegro, Nauru, Moldova and New Zealand.Similarly, the EEA countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, all European Union countries (except Ireland) together with Switzerland also require 3 months validity beyond the date of the bearer's intended departure unless the bearer is an EEA or Swiss national.

Countries requiring passports valid for at least 3 months on arrival include Albania, North Macedonia, Panama, 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, the Maldives^[420] and South Africa.

Criminal record

Some countries, including Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States,^[421] routinely deny entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record while others impose restrictions depending on the type of conviction and the length of the sentence.

Persona non grata

The government of a country can declare a diplomat persona non grata, banning 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.^[422]

Israeli stamps

Kuwait,^[423] Lebanon,^[424] Libya,^[425] Syria,^[426] and Yemen^[427] 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 (unless the entry is for some work-related purposes). Since 15 January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Ben Gurion Airport. Passports are still (as of 22 June 2017^[update]) stamped at Erez when passing into and out of Gaza.^{[citation needed]}

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

Biometrics

Several countries mandate that all travellers, or all foreign travellers, be fingerprinted on arrival and will refuse admission to or even arrest travellers who refuse to comply. In some countries, such as the United States, this may apply even to transit passengers who merely wish to change planes rather than go landside.^[428]

Fingerprinting countries/regions include Afghanistan,^[429][430] Argentina,^[431] Brunei, Cambodia,^[432] China,^[433] Ethiopia,^[434] Ghana, Guinea,^[435] India, Japan,^[436][437] Kenya (both fingerprints and a photo are taken),^[438] Malaysia upon entry and departure,^[439] Mongolia, Saudi Arabia,^[440] Singapore, South Korea,^[441] Taiwan, Thailand,^[442] Uganda,^[443] the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

Many countries also require a photo be taken of people entering the country. The United States, which does not fully implement exit control formalities at its land frontiers (although long mandated by domestic legislation),^{[444][445][446]} intends to implement facial recognition for passengers departing from international airports to identify people who overstay their visa.^[447]

Together with fingerprint and face recognition, iris scanning is one of three biometric identification technologies internationally standardised since 2006 by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for use in e-passports^[448] and the United Arab Emirates conducts iris scanning on visitors who need to apply for a visa.^[449][450]

• Visa requirements for European Union citizens
• Czech passport

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