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Guadeloupe → Maldives: Short-stay tourist

What you need before you submit, checked against official requirements, not guesswork.

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Required documents

8 items

Identity

  • Children and minors need their own passport

    Required

    Stated explicitly: a child or minor cannot enter the Maldives on a parent's passport.

    Source: Maldives Immigration

  • Passport with a Machine-Readable Zone and at least 1 month's validity

    Required

    The travel document must have a Machine-Readable Zone and at least one month of validity left. Read the second half of that rule carefully, because it's unusual and catches people out: passengers whose passports have had their validity extended are not allowed to enter. A hand-extended or renewed-by-endorsement passport fails here even though it looks valid.

    Source: Maldives Immigration

  • Traveller Declaration, submitted on IMUGA within 96 hours of arrival

    Required

    Every foreigner arriving in the Maldives must complete and submit the 'Traveller Declaration' electronically through the IMUGA portal (imuga.immigration.gov.mv). The window is up to 96 hours, four days, before arrival, and you present the completed declaration at immigration on landing. Submission is free of charge, and each traveller submits their own, including children and minors. Note that no pre-approval is needed for the visa itself: it's granted on arrival.

    Source: Maldives Immigration

Financial

  • Sufficient funds for the stay: or an approved sponsorship

    Required

    You need to show funds sufficient to cover your stay in the Maldives. The published alternative is a sponsorship approved in advance by Maldives Immigration, which substitutes for the funds and itinerary evidence.

    Source: Maldives Immigration

Accommodation

  • Prepaid, confirmed booking at a registered facility

    Required

    The booking must be prepaid, confirmed, and at a facility registered with the authorities, a resort, hotel or guesthouse on the register. An unpaid reservation or a stay with a private host isn't what the rule describes.

    Source: Maldives Immigration

Travel

  • Confirmed return journey ticket

    Required

    One of the three parts of the 'complete travel itinerary' Maldives Immigration asks for. It has to be confirmed, not provisional.

    Source: Maldives Immigration

  • Meet the entry requirements of your onward destination

    Required

    Maldives Immigration checks that you can actually get into wherever you're going next, the examples given are that country's visa and its passport-validity rule. Being admissible to the Maldives isn't enough on its own.

    Source: Maldives Immigration

Other

  • Yellow fever vaccination certificate, if it applies to your route

    Required if you're arriving from, or have recently travelled through, a country with a risk of yellow fever transmission. Children under one year of age are exempt. Check the endemic-country list linked from the immigration page against your whole itinerary, not just your departure point.

    Source: Maldives Immigration

Why applications on this route get refused

  • Refused at the port of entry despite a complete itinerary

    Maldives Immigration says this in as many words: a complete travel itinerary, confirmed return tickets, a prepaid booking at a registered hotel, and proof of sufficient funds, does not guarantee entry. Entry is granted at the port of entry after immigration officers determine admissibility under Sections 7 and 8 of the Maldives Immigration Act 2007.

    How to avoid it: Carry the documents in a form you can produce immediately at the counter rather than relying on emails you'd need to search for, and make sure the bookings genuinely match the dates on your ticket.

  • Itinerary incomplete: one of the three parts missing

    The 'complete travel itinerary' is three things at once: a confirmed return journey ticket, a prepaid confirmed booking at a registered facility, and sufficient funds. Having two of the three doesn't satisfy it.

    How to avoid it: Check all three before you fly, and remember the booking has to be prepaid and at a registered facility, not just reserved.

  • Traveller Declaration not submitted, or not submitted per person

    Every traveller must submit an individual Traveller Declaration through IMUGA, children and minors included, and it has to be done electronically before arrival rather than on the spot.

    How to avoid it: Submit one per passenger inside the 96-hour window and keep each confirmation available to show on arrival.

  • Passport with extended validity, or no machine-readable zone

    Two document conditions are easy to miss: the passport needs a Machine-Readable Zone, and passengers whose passports carry an extended validity are not allowed to enter at all, the extension doesn't count, even though the passport is otherwise in date.

    How to avoid it: Travel on a normally issued passport with at least a month left, rather than one whose validity was extended by endorsement.

Sources

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