Visa policy of Albania

However, citizens of certain countries or territories are entitled to visa-free entry with an ID card in lieu of a passport.

It grants 90-day visa-free entry to all Schengen Annex II nationalities, except for Dominica, East Timor, Grenada, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

It also grants visa-free entry to 8 additional countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Kuwait and Turkey.

3 - Citizens of these countries or territories staying for more than 90 days within any 180-day period are required to obtain a type "D" visa.

)[2][3][4][5][6] Visitors of Albanian ethnicity do not require a visa to enter Albania for a maximum stay of 90 days within any 180-day period.

In addition to countries whose citizens are visa-exempt, holders of diplomatic, official or service passports from Algeria, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Mongolia, Morocco, Oman, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Vietnam and holders of diplomatic passports of Tunisia do not require a visa to visit Albania.

2 Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Russia and the partially recognised republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia each span the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia.