US VISA FOR BELGIAN CITIZENS are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Belgium.
Vaccination
Many African countries, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Togo, require all incoming passengers older than nine months to one year[350] to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, as does the South American territory of French Guiana.[351]
An increasing number of countries have been imposing additional COVID-19 related health restrictions such as quarantine measures and testing requirements.
Passport validity length
Very few countries, such as Paraguay, just require a passport valid on arrival.
However many countries and groupings now require only an identity card – especially from their neighbours. Other countries may have special bilateral arrangements that depart from the generality of their passport validity length policies to shorten the period of passport validity required for each other’s citizens[355][356] or even accept passports that have already expired (but not been cancelled).[357]
Some countries, such as Japan,[358] Ireland and the United Kingdom,[359] require a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay.
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,[360] 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,[361] Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar,
Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Peru.[362] Philippines,[363] 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.[364]
Countries requiring passports valid for at least 4 months on arrival include Micronesia and Zambia.
Countries requiring passports valid for at least 3 months on arrival include Albania, Honduras, North Macedonia, Panama, and Senegal.
Bermuda requires passports to be valid for at least 45 days upon entry.
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[365] and South Africa.
Criminal record
Some countries, including Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and the US VISA FOR BRUNEI CITIZENS,[366] 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.
Persona non grata
The government of a country can declare a diplomat persona non grata, banning entry into that country.
Israeli stamps
Israeli border control Entry Permit (issued as a stand-alone document rather than a stamp affixed in a passport)
Kuwait,[368] Lebanon,[369] Libya,[370] Syria,[371] and Yemen[372] do not allow entry to people with passport stamps from Israel or whose passports have either a used or an unused Israeli visa, or where there is evidence of previous travel to Israel such as entry or exit stamps from neighbouring border posts in transit countries such as Jordan and Egypt.
Since 15 January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Ben Gurion Airport. Passports are still (as of 22 June 2017) stamped at Erez when passing into and out of Gaza.[citation needed]
Iran refuses admission to holders of passports containing an Israeli visa or stamp that is less than 12 months old.
Armenian ethnicity
Entry Permit to Nagorno-Karabakh issued in Yerevan as a stand-alone document rather than a visa affixed in a passport
Due to the state of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2020,[373][374][375] Armenian citizens and other foreign nationals of Armenian descent are likely to encounter difficulties when attempting to enter the Republic of Azerbaijan.[376][377][378]
Azerbaijan bans visits by foreign citizens to the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh[378] (the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh), its surrounding territories, and the Azerbaijani exclaves of Karki, Yuxarı Əskipara, Barxudarlı, and Sofulu which are de jure part of Azerbaijan but under the control of Armenia,
without the prior consent of the government of Azerbaijan. Foreign citizens who enter these territories will be permanently banned from entering the Republic of Azerbaijan[379] and will be included in their “list of personae non gratae“.[380]9 As of 2 September 2019, the list mentioned 852 people.
Biometrics
Fingerprinting countries include Afghanistan,[382][383] Argentina,[384] Brunei, Cambodia,[385] China,[386] Ethiopia,[387] Ghana, Guinea,[388] India, Japan,[389][390] Kenya (both fingerprints and a photo are taken),[391] Malaysia upon entry and departure,[392] Mongolia, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia,[393] Singapore, South Korea,[394] Taiwan, Thailand,[395] Uganda,[396] the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
The United States, which does not fully implement exit control formalities at its land frontiers (although long mandated by domestic legislation),[397][398][399] intends to implement facial recognition for passengers departing from international airports to identify people who overstay their visa.[400]