{"question":{"passport":"KNA","destination":"PNG","entryDate":"2026-09-12"},"dateBasis":"reference-date","status":"conditional","headline":"e-Visa, stay set by the visa","requirement":{"kind":"evisa","message":"Before you travel: you need an e-visa."},"stay":{"kind":"SET_BY_VISA","phrasing":"How long you may stay is set by your visa."},"conditions":[],"caveat":null,"source":{"documentId":"visa-info-booklet-2025","url":"https://parse.ica.gov.pg/uploads/media/post_file_3195072-visa-information-booklet-2025.pdf","passage":"All foreign visitors to Papua New Guinea need a visa. Visa is regulated and issued by the Immigration and Citizenship Authority (ICA). Either paper or online visa lodgement is accepted.","explanation":"The ICA's own current handbook applies the Migration Act's entry-permit requirement to every 'foreign visitor' and states that the visa is regulated and issued by the ICA with either paper or online lodgement accepted; I searched the ICA's Visa on Arrival list entry by entry and none of this row's issuers appears on it outside the restricted cases that already sit on their own rows, so each must obtain the ICA-issued visa before travel.","publisher":"2025 PAPUA NEW GUINEA IMMIGRATION AND ENTRY PERMIT HANDBOOK"},"checkedAt":"2026-09-06","snapshotAsOf":"2026-09-10","dataVersion":"4f66864a7d4f8a08b6c8c7e446d7f16addcd9303","upcomingChange":null,"alternatives":[],"scope":{"covers":["recorded entry requirement","recorded stay allowance"],"notEstablished":["personal admission decision","work permission","residence rights","tax position","individual eligibility for every condition"],"passportType":"ordinary"}}