Timor-Leste
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Visa-free, 90 days
You may stay up to 90 days in any 180 days.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions2 to check
- Visa-free travel applies to all categories of persons and for any kind of purposes of travel (for instance tourism, cultural visits, scientific activities, family visits, business etc.), except to persons travelling for the purpose of carrying out a paid activity.
- citizens from the EU and Timor-Leste must be in possession of a valid ordinary, diplomatic, service/official or special passport
Your stay
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Official wording
The new visa regime provides for visa-free travel for Schengen Area citizens when travelling to the territory of Timor-Leste for a period of stay of 90 days in any 180-day period. … This includes the following States:
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
and the non-EU Schengen states:
Iceland
Liechtenstein
Norway
Switzerland
Aevamo’s reading
The Law of Migration and Asylum 11/2017 (as consolidated by Law 10/2021) creates the obligation itself: Article 13(1) requires every foreigner entering Timor-Leste to hold a valid visa, Article 35 sets the tourist-visa validity of thirty days, and Article 44(4) creates the visa-on-arrival mechanism. The ministry pages describe this law's operation rather than creating the obligation.
The Migration Service's own visa-exemptions page states the operative visa-free rule for Schengen-area citizens — 90 days in any 180-day period — and then enumerates each State it covers, including every issuer in this row.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
Law of Migration and Asylum consolidated version incorporating Law 10/2021 (June 2021); Migration Service pages are the current 2026 publications, live-fetched 2026-08-21; Jornal da República Serie I No. 21 dated 21 May 2025; KPL report dated 19 September 2025.
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.