Vanuatu
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Visa on arrival, 120 days
The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions1 to check
- The visa is granted on arrival only if the traveller meets the Department's tourist-visa grant criteria: not a prohibited immigrant; not prevented by the Minister from entering; passes the character test; no contagious disease or condition risking community health; provides security as required under the Immigration Act; has the means to support self and dependants; has a genuine intention to visit and depart within 120 days; holds a return ticket or onward transport; and, if under 18, written parental or guardian consent.
Your stay
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Official wording
For the purposes of paragraph 2(c) of the Act, a citizen or national of a country, state, territory, federation or dependency listed in item 3 of Column A of Table 1 of the Schedule is an exempted person. … 3 Andorra, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Brazil, Chile, China (People’s Republic of) ! Croatia, Cuba, Denmark … includes Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macau Special . Administrative Region
Aevamo’s reading
Section 26 of the Immigration Act No. 17 of 2010 creates the obligation itself: it makes it an offence for a non-citizen who is not the holder of a visa to enter Vanuatu, and ss 26A and 26B (inserted by the 2018 amendment) are the powers under which the visa-on-arrival and exemption orders are made. The ministry pages describe and apply that statutory scheme rather than creating it.
Clause 2(3) makes a citizen or national of any country listed in Item 3 of Table 1 an exempted person under paragraph 2(c) of the Act; item 3 lists 'China (People's Republic of)' carrying footnote 1; and footnote 1 says that entry 'includes Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macau Special Administrative Region'. A Macau SAR travel document is therefore inside the exempted class by the Order's own words, not by inference from a state list.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
Ministry pages (immigration-visa-exempted-countries, immigration-visit-page, immigration-tourist-visa) were originally fetched live 2026-08-21 and re-fetched live 2026-08-29 for this pass; the visa-exempted-countries page's own cache comment reads 'Last modified: August 29, 2026 5:05 am'. evisa-portal fetched live 2026-08-21 and re-fetched live 2026-08-29 (footer '(c) 2024'). Immigration Act No. 17 of 2010 assented 17/01/2011, commenced 07/02/2011, consolidated with amendments to 2018 (2018 amendment assented 06/07/2018, commenced 10/07/2018); text fetched from the Government Trade Portal 2026-08-21. Immigration Visa Regulation Order No. 180 of 2011 made 11 July 2011, in force from the date it was made (clause 23, OCR page 12); scanned PDF with no text layer, read via the harness's OCR extraction (extracted text stored 2026-08-29). Immigration (Amendment) Act No. 16 of 2018 assented 06/07/2018, commenced 10/07/2018, fetched from NATLEX 2026-08-29.
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.
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.