Visa requirements for Croatian citizens

The United States violates visa-free reciprocity by not including several European Union countries in their Visa Waiver Program, including Croatia.[194][205]

Visa requirements for Croatian citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas and restricted zones:

•  Abkhazia — Visa required.[206]
•  Artsakh — Visa required (issued for single entry for 21 days/1/2/3 months or multiple entry visa for 1/2/3 months).[207][208]
  Travellers with Artsakh visa (expired or valid) or evidence of travel to Artsakh (stamps) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan.[209]
• 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.[210][211]
• Brest and Grodno — Visa not required for 10 days.[212]
• Crimea — Visa issued by Russia is required.[213]
•  Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus — Visa free access for 3 months. ID card valid.[214]
• UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus — Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.[215]
•  Gibraltar — Visa not required. ID card valid.[216]
• Jan Mayen — permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours[217] and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.[218]
•  Kaliningrad Oblast — From 1 July 2019, Croatian citizens are eligible for eVisa access to Kaliningrad oblast for 8 days.[219]
•  Kosovo — visa free for 90 days.[220]
•  South Ossetia — Visa free. Multiple entry visa to Russia and three-day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.[221][222]
•  Transnistria — Visa free. Registration required after 24h.[223][224]

•  British Indian Ocean Territory — special permit required.[225]
•  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).[226]
•  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  •  Ascension Island — eVisa for 3 months within any year period[227][228]
  •  Saint Helena — Visitor's Pass granted on arrival valid for 4/10/21/60/90 days for 12/14/16/20/25 pound sterling.[229]
  •  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.[230]
•  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara controlled territory) — undefined visa regime.
•  Somaliland — visa required (30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival).[231][232]

•  Hong Kong — Visa not required for 90 days.[233]
•  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.[234][235][236][237][238]
•  Macao — Visa not required for 90 days.[239]
•  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.[240]
• Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province — OIVR permit required (15+5 Tajikistani Somoni) and another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.[241][242][243]
• Tibet Autonomous Region — Tibet Travel Permit required (10 US Dollars).[244][245][246]
• Korean Demilitarized Zone — restricted zone.
• UNDOF Zone and Ghajar — restricted zones.

•  Anguilla — Visa not required for 3 months.[247]
•  Aruba — Visa not required for 30 days.[248]
•  Bermuda — Visa not required.[249]
• Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba — Visa not required for 3 months.[250]
•  British Virgin Islands — Visa not required.[251]
•  Cayman Islands — Visa not required.[252]
•  Curacao — Visa not required for 3 months.[253]
•  Montserrat — Visa required.[254]
•  Puerto Rico — Visa required.[255]
•  Sint Maarten — Visa not required for 3 months.[256]
•  Turks and Caicos Islands — Visa free for 90 days.[257]
•  U.S. Virgin Islands — Visa required.[258]

•  American Samoa — Visa required (entry permit).[259]
• Ashmore and Cartier Islands — special authorisation required.[260]
• Clipperton Island — special permit required.[261]
•  Cook Islands — Visa free access for 31 days.[262]
•  Guam — Visa required.[263]
•  Niue — Visa on arrival valid for 30 days is issued free of charge.[264]
•  Pitcairn Islands — 14 days visa free and landing fee 35 USD or tax of 5 USD if not going ashore.[265][266][267]
• 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.[268][269][270][271][272][273][274]

•  Falkland Islands — Visitor Permit valid for 4 weeks is issued on arrival.[275]
•  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands — Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).[276][277]
• Antarctica and adjacent islands — 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.[278][279][280][281][282][283][284][285][286][287][288][289]

Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages to be available in the passport being presented, typically one or two pages.[290] Endorsement pages, which often appear after the visa pages, are not counted as being available.

An International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis is required to prove that someone has been vaccinated against yellow fever

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, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia, require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, as does the South American territory of French Guiana.[291]

Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area or has visited one recently.[292]

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,[293] 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, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel,[294] Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, 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.[295]

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 Albania, Honduras, North Macedonia, Panama, and Senegal.

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

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[296] and South Africa.

Other countries require either a passport valid on arrival or a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay. Some countries have bilateral agreements with other countries to shorten the period of passport validity required for each other's citizens[297][298] or even accept passports that have already expired (but not been cancelled).[299]

Some countries, including Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States,[300] routinely deny entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record.

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.[301]

Israeli border control Entry Permit (issued as a stand-alone document rather than a stamp affixed in a passport)

Kuwait,[302] Lebanon,[303] Libya,[304] Sudan,[305] Syria,[306] and Yemen[307] 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) stamped at Erez when passing into and out of Gaza.

The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage claims that having an Israeli stamp does not disqualify someone from visiting Saudi Arabia.[308]

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

Entry Permit to Nagorno-Karabakh issued in Yerevan as a stand-alone document rather than a visa affixed in a passport

Due to a state of war existing between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the government of Azerbaijan not only bars entry of Armenian citizens, but also all citizens and nationals of any other country who are of Armenian descent, into the Republic of Azerbaijan.[309][310]

Azerbaijan also strictly bans any visit by foreign citizens to the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh[311] (the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh), its surrounding territories, and the Azerbaijani exclaves of Karki, Yuxarı Əskipara, Barxudarlı, and Sofulu which are de jure part of Azerbaijan but under the control of Armenia, without the prior consent of the government of Azerbaijan. Foreign citizens who enter these territories will be permanently banned from entering the Republic of Azerbaijan[312] and will be included in their "list of personae non gratae".[313] As of 2 September 2019, the list mentioned 852 people.

Upon request, the authorities of the largely unrecognised 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 territory.

A fingerprint scanner at Dulles International Airport collects biometric data on visitors, which can be used for confirming identities.

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 quickly change planes rather than go landside.[314]

Fingerprinting countries include Afghanistan,[315][316] Argentina,[317] Brunei, Cambodia,[318] China,[319] Ethiopia,[320] Ghana, Guinea,[321] India, Japan,[322][323] Kenya (both fingerprints and a photo are taken),[324] Malaysia upon entry and departure,[325] Paraguay, Saudi Arabia,[326] Singapore, South Korea,[327] Taiwan, Thailand,[328] Uganda[329] 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 its legislature),[330] [331] [332] intends to implement facial recognition for passengers departing from international airports to identify people who overstay their visa.[333]

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[334] and the United Arab Emirates conducts iris scanning on visitors who need to apply for a visa.[335][336]