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Caribbean Short-Stay Visa or Visa-Exempt Visit

Sint MaartenShort stays and visits

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For the relevant traveller scope, is a visa, electronic authorisation, visa on arrival or no advance visa normally required?

For stays of 90 days or less in the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom a short-stay visa may be needed. Not everyone needs one: it depends on factors including nationality. In most cases no visa is needed to transit through the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom or when travelling on a cruise ship.

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  • The nationality matrix is behind the page's 'Check whether you need a visa' tool and is not in the capture.

What short-visit purposes does this route cover?

A short-stay Caribbean visa lets the holder travel to and between the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including St Maarten. It does not permit paid work; working requires a work permit. The official source does not list the specific visit purposes covered.

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  • The page does not enumerate which visit purposes (other than excluding paid work) the visa covers.

What maximum stay, rolling-period rule, validity and entry rules apply?

A short-stay Caribbean visa allows a maximum of 90 days within a 180-day period in the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom; in St Maarten the maximum is 90 consecutive days in a 180-day period. A single-entry visa allows one entry and a multiple-entry visa allows multiple entries. The official source does not state the visa's validity period.

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  • The visa's validity period is not stated in the capture.

What important funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel or passport evidence may be required?

Tourists are subject to the rules for temporary stay: they must hold an accepted travel document, a valid visa if they are visa-required, a return or onward ticket and the documents needed to return home or travel on, and must have sufficient means of subsistence for the stay, to be shown on arrival on request. The official source does not state accommodation, invitation or insurance evidence.

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  • Admission Decree in force since 10-10-2010; it also contains an obsolete smallpox-certificate clause, deliberately left out.
  • Accommodation, invitation and insurance evidence are not stated.

Where/how is permission obtained when required, and under what important circumstances can a stay be extended or changed?

How and where to apply depends on the country the applicant is in. Stays longer than 90 days require a residence permit. Frequent travellers may qualify for the Caribbean Carpet Programme to apply more easily. A rejected visa for St Maarten cannot be objected to. The official source does not state whether a short stay in St Maarten can be extended.

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  • The capture does not state whether or how a short stay in St Maarten can be extended (an extension procedure is described only for Curaçao).

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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