New Caledonia: visa, passport and entry requirements
Passport · Passport validity: Must have an expiry date at least 3 months after the date you plan to leave New Caledonia and have at least 2 blank pages
Entry document
- ✓Passport
- ✕National ID card
Passport validity
Must have an expiry date at least 3 months after the date you plan to leave New Caledonia and have at least 2 blank pages
Your passport must be valid. You will be denied entry if you do not have a valid travel document or try to use a passport that has been reported lost or stolen. — Residence document or certificate of application required for UK residents of New Caledonia when entering or exiting
Visa
Depends on length of stay
Apply through the French visa website for stays longer than 90 days, or for work, study, or other purposes beyond tourism and business — Up to 90 days visa-free for tourism or business
Your whole journey
Stopovers aren’t in our pages yet: the Sherpa link checks them for your nationality.
Passport, visa and stopovers: check on Sherpa ↗Free tool, pre-filled for a British passport: change the nationality if needed.
Vaccination required on entry
Yellow fever
Required only if arriving from a country listed as a transmission risk
Yellow fever risk areas (WHO list)
Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad*, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia*, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya*, Liberia, Mali*, Mauritania*, Niger*, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan*, Togo, Uganda
Americas: Argentina*, Bolivia*, Brazil*, Colombia*, Ecuador*, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama*, Paraguay*, Peru*, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago*, Venezuela*
* only in parts of the country
A country may apply its own list: the official text above prevails.
Source: WHO, International Travel and Health, Annex 1, 18 November 2022, revised 3 January 2023 ↗