Tonga
Solomon Islands passportEdit check
Visa on arrival, 30 days
The allowance is per visit: it starts again on your next entry.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions4 to check
- Travellers are required to hold passports with a validity of a minimum of 6 months when entering Tonga.
- The traveller holds a valid return ticket out of the Kingdom to a country which he or she is permitted to enter.
- The Customs officer is satisfied that the traveller has sufficient funds to financially maintain himself whilst in the Kingdom.
- It is illegal to take up employment, business, and education whilst in the Kingdom on a Visitor's Visa.
Your stay
Add your arrival date to work out the stay that fits this rule.
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Official wording
Travellers who are citizens of the following countries may be issued a 30 day visitor visa on arrival into Tonga: … Australia, Austria … Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam … Canada, Cook Islands, Cyprus … Denmark, Dominica … Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia … Germany, Greece … Ireland, Italy … Japan, Kiribati … Luxembourg … Malaysia, Malta, Marshall Islands, Monaco … Nauru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niue,Norway … Palau, Papua New Guinea, Portugal … Russia … Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Spain, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Sweden, Switzerland … The Bahamas, Turkey, Tuvalu … Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America … Vanuatu
Aevamo’s reading
The Immigration Act (Cap. 62), s.6 creates the obligation: no person other than a citizen of the Kingdom shall enter Tonga unless holding a valid permit or exempted under s.7. s.10 limits a visitor's permit to 6 months and s.38 empowers Cabinet to exempt classes of persons. The revenue/embassy lists describe how that permit requirement is administered, but the Act is the instrument that creates it.
The page heads the list with the grant 'may be issued a 30 day visitor visa on arrival into Tonga' and enumerates the countries, each of which therefore enters on arrival without an advance visa for 30 days.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
ton-visa-rev carries a footer dated ©2021 Ministry of Revenue & Customs; ton-embassy-visas mentions 'as of November 2015'; eu-tonga-agreement is dated 20 November 2015 and applied provisionally from 21 November 2015; ton-immig-act-worldlii is the 1988 Revised Edition of the Immigration Act (Act No. 16 of 1969, commenced 31 March 1970).
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.