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Réunion

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Entry rule

Visa, stay set by the visa

Before you travel: you need a visa from an embassy or consulate.

How long you may stay is set by your visa.

Entry rule for 12 September 2026 Source checked 22 August 2026
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Official wording

Etre en possession d'un visa en cours de validité si celui-ci est requis en vertu de l'annexe II du présent arrêté. … Outre les étrangers mentionnés à l'article 1er qui bénéficient de la libre circulation des personnes, sont dispensés du visa prévu à ce même article les étrangers mentionnés à l'annexe II du présent arrêté, dans les limites qu'elle fixe.

Aevamo’s reading

This arrêté, signed by the interior, foreign-affairs, budget and overseas ministries, imposes the visa obligation on foreigners entering La Réunion and fixes the exhaustive annexe II list of nationalities dispensed from it; the ministry pages only describe the regime and the embassy page covers a single nationality.

Article 1(b) requires a valid visa for entry when annexe II makes one necessary, and article 3 dispenses only free-movement beneficiaries and the nationalities listed in annexe II; these issuers' ordinary passports are on neither list, so a visa must be obtained in advance.

Source details

Source checked
22 August 2026
Data snapshot
10 September 2026
Publisher
Arrêté du 26 juillet 2011 relatif aux documents et visas exigés pour l'entrée des étrangers sur le territoire de la Guadeloupe, la Guyane, la Martinique, La Réunion et de la collectivité de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
Reference ID
arrete-dom-wayback
How the documents behind this regime are dated

Version en vigueur au 03 décembre 2024 (Wayback capture of the Légifrance consolidated text); dernière mise à jour des données de ce texte : 09 mai 2022; NOR IOCL1113712A; JORF n°0173 du 28 juillet 2011. The capture predates the arrêté of 28 May 2025 removing Belarus and Russia, which is handled in the residual sweep.

What this answer covers Limits & assumptions

Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.

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