Do I need a visa to travel to Iceland?

All the information below has been retrieved from Island.is. Note that this could change with time and we encourage you to check the official governmental website.

 

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Mexico

You can travel to Iceland without a visa

You are exempted from the obligation to carry a visa on arrival in Iceland. This means that you may stay in the Schengen area without a visa for up to 90 days. The total stay within the Schengen area must not exceed 90 days in any period of 180 days.

Peru

You can travel to Iceland without a visa

You are exempted from the obligation to carry a visa on arrival in Iceland. This means that you may stay in the Schengen area without a visa for up to 90 days. The total stay within the Schengen area must not exceed 90 days in any period of 180 days.

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Colombia

You can travel to Iceland without a visa

You are exempted from the obligation to carry a visa on arrival in Iceland. This means that you may stay in the Schengen area without a visa for up to 90 days. The total stay within the Schengen area must not exceed 90 days in any period of 180 days

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Spain

Spain

You can travel to Iceland without a visa

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Ecuador

You need a visa to visit Iceland

You need to apply for a visa to visit Iceland unless you are a holder of any of the travel documents / personal documents listed below.

Further information about where to apply for a visa to Iceland.

List of travel documents and personal documents whose holders do not need a visa to travel to Iceland

  1. Recognized refugees and stateless persons residing in an EU and/or Schengen member state and holding travel documents issued by that country.
  2. Flight crew member certificate issued by competent authorities in a member state of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), if the holders can proof that they have signed on as members of the crew of an aircraft located in Iceland.
  3. NATO Travel Order – Ordre de Mission OTAN (for NATO military personnel) on the condition that the holder has a military service book and an individual or collective NATO movement order.
  4. NATO Leave Order on the condition that the holder has a military service book and a valid travel warrant to Iceland. The document permits a stay in Iceland for up to 90 days.
  5. Laissez-passer issued to staff of the United Nations, subordinate agencies of the UN or the International Atomic Energy Agency, if the holders are traveling for the abovementioned organizations and present, besides the laissez-passer, a declaration from the UN or the agency they work for stating that they are traveling in the interest of the UN or the agency concerned.
  6. Valid travel documents (Ausweis, Laissez-passer, Lascia-passare) issued by the European Union.
  7. Holders of diplomatic passports, special passports and service passports issued by Turkey, holders of diplomatic passports and service passports issued by India, Pakistan and South Africa and holders of diplomatic passports issued by China.
  8. Holders of Danish, Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish foreign passports if the passport permits a return to the state which issued it.
  9. Stateless persons and refugees under 21 years of age who are registered in a group passport issued in accordance with the European Agreement on Youth Travel on common passports from 16 December 1961 and legally reside in the issuing state.
  10. Foreigners holding a residence permit issued by a Schengen state.
  11. Holders of a seaman’s book or seafarer’s identity document issued in accordance with the ILO Conventions concerning Seafarers National Identity Documents No. 108 of 1958 or No. 185 of 2003 in connection with documentation of hire on board or discharge from a ship in an Icelandic or foreign port.
  12. Students who need a visa to travel to Iceland, but reside in an EU country which applies EU decision 94/795/JHA of November 30, 1994, when on a field trip accompanied by a teacher from their school.
  13. Holders of travel documents issued by Taiwan and containing a number on their identity cards.
  14. Holders of passports issued by Vanuatu before 25 May 2015, as well as holders of diplomatic passports, special passports and service passports issued by Vanuatu.
  15. Holders of residence cards for family members of EU/EEA nationals, issued by an EU member state that is not part of the Schengen area and not the native country of the EU/EEA national, do not need a visa if accompanying or joining the EU/EEA citizen on whom the residence is based on.

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Chile

You can travel to Iceland without a visa

You are exempted from the obligation to carry a visa on arrival in Iceland. This means that you may stay in the Schengen area without a visa for up to 90 days. The total stay within the Schengen area must not exceed 90 days in any period of 180 days.

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