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Unless your nationality is visa-exempt, you must get a visa from an Algerian embassy or consulate before you travel. Apply at the one that covers the place where you usually live. For tourists on an organised trip through a travel agency, the Ministry says the visa is issued within 48 hours of the embassy receiving your complete file. Group trips to the far south of Algeria through an approved agency use a visa on arrival instead (see below).

المصدر: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Algeria

If you live in a country other than your own, add your residence card and a photocopy of it to your application.

المصدر: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Algeria

Two recent, identical identity photos.

المصدر: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Algeria

A passport valid for at least six months, plus a photocopy of it.

المصدر: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Algeria

The visa application form, completed in duplicate. Download it from the website of the Algerian embassy or consulate that will handle your application.

المصدر: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Algeria

At the Algerian embassy in The Hague, children under 18 and students may attach a parent's bank statement instead of their own. The statement must be dated within the last three months.

المصدر: Embassy of Algeria in The Hague

You pay a chancery fee, and the amount varies by country. Nationals of some countries do not pay it, under the principle of reciprocity. The Ministry's page gives no amounts, so check with the embassy or consulate handling your application.

المصدر: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Algeria

For a tourist visa: either an accommodation certificate legalised by the town hall of the place you will stay in Algeria, or a hotel reservation, or a certificate from a travel agency stating the nature and place of your trip.

المصدر: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Algeria

A certificate of travel insurance that includes repatriation assistance. The Ministry's page gives no minimum amount (see the example from one embassy below).

المصدر: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Algeria

An earlier Ministry notice on the same scheme says the visa issued on arrival is valid for no more than 30 days and that you pay the visa fees on arrival. After your agency's application is processed, it sends you a boarding authorisation containing a QR code.

المصدر: Embassy of Algeria in Brussels (Ministry of Foreign Affairs notice)

If you join an organised group trip through a travel agency approved by Algeria's Ministry of Tourism, and the programme includes at least one of the 24 southern wilayas named in the notice (for example Tamanrasset, Djanet, Ghardaia, Adrar or Bechar), the agency registers you on a government platform and gives you a document that lets you board your flight. You then get a "regularization visa" on arrival at an international airport, land border crossing or port, instead of applying at an embassy. Trips to other parts of Algeria still need a visa from an embassy or consulate.

المصدر: Embassy of Algeria in Budapest (Ministry of Foreign Affairs notice)

A visa can be valid for 90 days, 180 days, one year or two years, for a single entry or several. The most you can stay per entry is 90 days, which can exceptionally be extended by up to 90 more days, and your total stay cannot exceed 180 days in a year. A visa can be extended inside Algeria under certain conditions.

المصدر: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Algeria

If you are an Algerian citizen living abroad with a valid foreign passport, a temporary measure extended to 31 December 2026 lets you enter and leave Algeria without a visa. Show the foreign passport together with an Algerian biometric passport (even if expired) or an Algerian biometric electronic national ID card (CNIBE, even if expired), and use the same documents to enter and to leave. Minor children travelling with a parent or guardian can benefit if they carry civil-status documents proving the family link.

المصدر: Embassy of Algeria in Washington (Ministry of Foreign Affairs communique of 29 December 2025)

If you are issued a regularization visa by the border police, the Interior Ministry lists: a request form (from the border police or the Ministry's website); a passport valid for more than six months; a document showing why you are entering (for example an official invitation or a medical appointment); proof of the money you will live on during your stay; proof of where you will stay (an accommodation certificate or a hotel reservation); a return ticket; and proof that you paid the stamp duty, which can depend on reciprocity.

المصدر: Ministry of the Interior, Local Authorities and Transport, Algeria

Each Algerian embassy or consulate publishes its own list on top of the Ministry's. As one example, the embassy in The Hague (for people living in the Netherlands) also asks for: proof of your job, studies or pension; a bank statement under three months old showing enough money for your stay (currently at least EUR 40 a day, not counting hotel costs); a return ticket to Algeria (in some cases you can show it only after the visa is approved); travel insurance naming Algeria with at least EUR 30,000 of medical and repatriation cover for the whole visa period; and a hotel reservation or a legalised accommodation certificate with a copy of your host's Algerian ID. It asks for one photo (35 x 45 mm) and a form filled in on screen, printed, dated and signed. Other posts may ask for different documents, so check yours.

المصدر: Embassy of Algeria in The Hague

The Hague embassy's general conditions: apply no earlier than 90 days before the start date you want, in person by appointment (or through an authorised agent); posted and emailed applications are not considered, and the embassy keeps your passport while it processes the file. Visas are generally issued for a single entry with a 30-day stay, and your passport must be valid for more than six months when you apply and for more than three months after the visa expires, with at least two blank pages. Fees are paid by card only and are not refunded if you cancel or the visa is refused. Reasons for a refusal are not always given.

المصدر: Embassy of Algeria in The Hague

The embassy says that for a child under 18 the application must be submitted by one of the parents, who must show the child's birth certificate or family record book, with a photocopy, to prove the family link. For a minor, the proof of residence in the Netherlands can be the applicant's or one of the parents'.

المصدر: Embassy of Algeria in The Hague

Algeria reinstated the entry-visa requirement, with immediate effect, for all foreign nationals holding Moroccan passports (Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement, September 2024). Some embassy pages still list Morocco as visa-exempt; that is out of date.

المصدر: Embassy of Algeria in Brussels (Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement)

Algeria's Ministry page names no visa-exempt countries; only some embassy pages do, and they differ. The Dublin embassy lists Libya, Malaysia, the Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Seychelles and Tunisia. We only treat as exempt the countries that every embassy list we found names (Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Seychelles, Tunisia and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic). Libya and the Maldives are on some lists but not others, so if you hold one of those passports, ask an Algerian embassy or consulate whether you need a visa before you book.

المصدر: Embassy of Algeria in Dublin