Papua New Guinea: visa, passport and entry requirements
Passport · Passport validity: 6 months
Entry document
- ✓Passport
- ✕National ID card
Passport validity
6 months
Must have an ‘expiry date’ at least 6 months after the date you arrive. — You may need to show evidence of an onward flight ticket.
Visa
Required
Can be obtained in advance online or at a Papua New Guinea (PNG) Embassy or High Commission. Tourist/visitor visas can also be obtained on arrival at Jacksons International Airport in Port Moresby. Applying for a visa online before you travel using the ‘Online Services’ tab on the Immigration & Citizenship Services Authority (ICSA) website. PNG has recently reintroduced visa on arrival for certain categories of traveller. — Details are available on the ICSA website.
Your whole journey
Stopovers aren’t in our pages yet: the Sherpa link checks them for your nationality.
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Vaccination required on entry
yellow fever
if you’re coming 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 ↗