For the relevant traveller scope, is a visa, electronic authorisation, visa on arrival or no advance visa normally required?
Except where the law or international agreements provide an exemption, a foreign national who wants to enter or stay must hold the visa appropriate to the purpose of the stay; for tourism, cultural or other accepted visits this is the temporary visa.
See recorded sources
- Exempt nationalities are set in Art 25 of Lei 5/2008 as amended by Lei 5/2015 (covered by the separate fifteen-day exemption route); no full nationality matrix is given here.
- https://www.smf.st/resource/upload/fileLegislacao/regimejuridico.pdf
Com excepção dos casos de isenção ou dispensa de
- https://www.smf.st/resource/upload/fileLegislacao/regimejuridico.pdf
vistos previstos na Lei ou em acordos internacionais de
- https://www.smf.st/resource/upload/fileLegislacao/regimejuridico.pdf
transitar, entrar ou permanecer no território nacional
- https://www.smf.st/resource/upload/fileLegislacao/regimejuridico.pdf
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