Visa requirements for Romanian citizens
[1] Recently visa requirements for Romanian citizens were lifted by China (November 2024),[2] Thailand (July 2024),[3] Tajikistan (April 2024),[4] Angola (September 2023),[5][6] Oman (9 December 2020) (Previously Visa on arrival),[7] Uzbekistan (15 January 2019),[8] Cape Verde (1 January 2019),[9] Belarus (February 2017),[10] Solomon Islands (October 2016),[11] Tuvalu (July 2016),[12] Marshall Islands (June 2016),[13] Palau (December 2015),[14] Tonga (November 2015),[15] Sao Tome and Principe (August 2015),[16] Indonesia (June 2015),[17][18] United Arab Emirates, Timor-Leste, Samoa (May 2015),[19][20][21][22] Romanian citizens were made eligible for eVisas recently by Guinea and Malawi (October 2019), Saudi Arabia (September 2019), Russia (only Kaliningrad Oblast, Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, free of charge),[23][24] Suriname and Pakistan (April 2019), Papua New Guinea (November 2018), Djibouti (February 2018),[25] Egypt (December 2017),[26] Azerbaijan (January 2017),[27] India (e-Tourist visa from November 2014)[28] and Myanmar (September 2014).
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[415] to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, as does the South American territory of French Guiana.
[416] 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.
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,[424] 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,[425] Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Peru,[426] Philippines,[427] 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.
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.
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[429] and South Africa.
[431] Some countries, including Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States,[432] 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.
[438] Fingerprinting countries/regions include Afghanistan,[439][440] Argentina,[441] Brunei, Cambodia,[442] China,[443] Ethiopia,[444] Ghana, Guinea,[445] India, Japan,[446][447] Kenya (both fingerprints and a photo are taken),[448] Malaysia upon entry and departure,[449] Mongolia, Saudi Arabia,[450] Singapore, South Korea,[451] Taiwan, Thailand,[452] Uganda,[453] the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
[459][460] The United States Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to greatly increase the biometric data it collects at US borders.
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.
