Visa policy of Jordan

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The visa policy of Jordan deals with the requirements which a foreign national wishing to enter Jordan must meet to be permitted to travel to, enter and remain in the country.

Jordanian visas are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its diplomatic missions abroad with the stated goal of regulating and facilitating migratory flows.

Visitors to Jordan must obtain a visa from a Jordanian diplomatic mission unless they come from one of the 10 visa-exempt countries and territories or one of the 120 countries and territories whose citizens are eligible for a visa on arrival.^[1]

Citizens of member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Lebanon, and Turkey may travel to Jordan without visa limits for a maximum stay of 3 months in a 6 month period. However, citizens of Egypt and residents of the Palestinian Authority have visa free access for one month in a 6 month period, while citizens of Israel have visa free access for one month with unlimited times in a 6 month period.^[2] All visitors must hold a passport valid for 6 months beyond the period of intended stay and with two blank pages. Visitors to Jordan must hold a non-refundable return or circle trip tickets except for Government workers continuing to Iraq. An identity card is accepted in lieu of a passport for Lebanese citizens,^[1] and EU citizens (except Croatians) arriving at Aqaba airport on a direct flight from Brussels.^[3]

Visa policy map[]

Visa policy of Jordan

As of right[]

The following citizens do not require a visa to enter, reside, study, and work indefinitely in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan without any immigration requirements:

_{1 – May enter with a Jordanian Identity Card or an expired Jordanian passport.}

Visa exemption[]

Holders of passports of the following 12 countries and territories do not require a visa to visit Jordan up to 3 months per a 6 months for tourism or business purposes (unless otherwise stated). An identity document is accepted in lieu of a passport for Lebanese citizens:

_{1 –Provided that the passport's number does not start with "00".}

Visa is not required for holders of diplomatic passports issued by any country or territory except Iraq and Myanmar.
Visa is not required for holders of special passports issued by Russia for a maximum stay of 60 days.
Visa is not required for citizens of  Syria,  Libya and  Yemen only if holding residence permits issued by a GCC Member States, Switzerland an EEA Member state, Australia, Canada, Japan, or a Permanent Resident Card (Form I-551) issued by the USA. The residence permit should be valid for a minimum of 6 months and they must hold a non-refundable return or circle trip tickets.
Visa is not required for citizens of Iraq being crew members on duty.
Visa is not required for merchant seamen and crew members of all countries and territories except Myanmar arriving by air in order to board a ship, or if arriving by ship in order to board an aircraft, provided they are traveling on duty and are holding a Letter of Employment or Letter of Guarantee of the shipping company.
Visa is not required for holders of a Laissez-Passer Passport issued by the United Nations provided they are traveling on duty and are holding a security clearance issued by the Jordanian Ministry of Interior.
Visa is not required for members of the US military or personnel of the Department of Defense (DoD) provided they are holding a US Military ID card (i.e.CAC card) and a travel order.

Visa on arrival[]

Citizens of countries and territories other than the following listed below and the countries and territories whose citizens are visa exempt can obtain a visa on arrival for a JOD 40.- for a maximum stay of 2 months (30 days for citizens of Algeria, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Morocco, South Africa and South Korea) and single entry:

Visa on arrival are not issued to holders of emergency, temporary, or ordinary passports issued by the following countries and territories:

1-visa on arrival only if holding residence permits issued by, a GCC Member States, Switzerland an EEA Member state, Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea or a Permanent Resident Card (Form I-551) issued by the USA. The residence permit should be valid for a minimum of 6 months and they must hold a non-refundable return or circle trip tickets.

2-visa on arrival if traveling for medical treatment for female or male older than 50 years and younger than 15 years

3-visa on arrival if holding a residence permit issued by a country whose citizens can obtain a visa on arrival for a maximum stay of 2 months. residence permit valid for a minimum of 6 months from the arrival date

Special provisions exist regarding the visa on arrival for the citizens of the following countries and territories:

•  Iraq – visa on arrival if provided holding an ID-card, a certificate of nationality, an official "Businessmen card" issued by the government of Jordan, and an official letter confirming the attendance to conferences or workshops, issued to official delegates entering or transiting Jordan or holding a residence permit issued by a country whose citizens can obtain a visa on arrival(except Lebanon) for 1 month maximum stay. Visa on arrival for holders of service passports.
•  Morocco – visa on arrival for aged between the age of 17 and 35 years of age.
•  Myanmar - visa on arrival for holders of diplomatic passports.
•  Sri Lanka – visa on arrival for a maximum stay of 2 months provided traveling on Royal Jordanian Airlines (RJ) and are holding hotel reservation in a 3 to 5 star hotel and an official documents confirming business or official delegate status.

Accompanying staff (housemaids, drivers), traveling with their employer, can obtain a visa on arrival for a max. stay of 3 months however this is not applicable for holders of ordinary passports issued by Myanmar, Libya, Syria and Yemen.
Visa on arrival for holders of an Interpol passport provided they are traveling on duty. The Interpol office in Amman must be notified prior to departure.

Transit[]

A transit visa is not required if holding a confirmed onward ticket for a flight to a third country within 48 hours.

Visitor statistics[]

Most visitors arriving to Jordan were from the following countries of nationality:^[4]

Country	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009
Saudi Arabia	854,515	775,700	756,989	883,884	1,057,604	1,079,361	1,144,118	1,074,190	1,337,436	1,186,317
Palestinian Authority	673,702	647,846	693,454	611,601	542,059	474,347	470,241	441,574	393,549	340,571
Iraq	173,424	143,241	142,044	158,364	224,872	325,291	373,107	292,129	254,303	218,267
United States	163,444	138,421	166,441	161,013	160,766	150,788	159,389	156,647	181,679	170,055
Egypt	150,222	172,841	244,418	258,366	249,561	262,950	353,827	326,511	379,777	424,753
Israel	134,148	118,148	141,881	154,316	176,032	184,618	203,740	211,889	244,341	226,305
Syria	103,064	98,081	136,973	193,966	421,166	548,663	1,190,201	1,903,749	2,382,643	2,057,364
Kuwait	87,298	85,245	89,994	92,343	91,069	78,415	66,690	69,420	142,200	139,830
Germany	74,174	49,194	57,497	47,951	56,323	66,528	59,549	59,074	70,123	55,493
Russia	60,657	67,181	49,384	22,020	41,212	46,439	60,252	56,624	69,988	61,225
India	56,954	43,668	57,720	49,755	54,129	57,784	60,913	64,973	52,995	30,927
United Kingdom	50,449	41,707	64,766	60,820	73,702	80,802	86,839	87,673	104,119	89,519
Lebanon	49,787	49,224	53,434	56,661	66,740	58,772	65,859	108,638	186,134	171,279
Italy	49,390	26,038	18,912	20,329	43,408	45,906	45,180	40,861	65,915	48,860
France	48,399	33,189	34,306	35,954	42,818	42,193	50,601	63,076	103,725	65,225
Canada	35,577	30,829	32,106	27,609	29,585	29,225	31,940	30,970	39,139	32,887
Yemen	31,524	31,905	57,333	71,895	67,071	62,157	53,619	42,230	46,588	59,072
Australia	28,630	21,745	21,857	20,461	22,747	24,661	25,300	26,175	28,604	23,348
Spain	28,612	17,558	16,375	17,379	26,908	26,246	27,101	23,875	44,956	30,295
China	28,382	35,979	37,092	23,186	19,968	15,689	12,491	12,208	15,247	12,693
Pakistan	27,646	11,273	11,957	12,607	19,723	18,539	14,774	23,339	20,877	13,633
Libya	27,168	21,748	25,021	81,500	84,550	79,680	101,938	23,264	49,590	38,478
Bahrain	25,488	26,401	31,554	31,508	31,070	28,359	35,941	43,645	100,026	85,598
Qatar	23,681	11,805	13,024	14,102	19,073	15,544	9,688	9,127	15,852	17,685
Netherlands	23,178	16,844	13,857	15,144	22,940	20,249	24,527	21,114	26,084	19,737
Indonesia	21,960	23,872	26,787	25,598	35,194	41,371	43,604	42,792	45,277	40,135
Poland	21,541	9,608	5,399	7,662	11,217	12,488	15,492	15,266	24,253	19,627
Malaysia	21,232	19,214	20,592	17,861	24,239	25,263	23,209	15,977	11,677	7,102
Turkey	20,345	18,508	22,605	18,050	19,682	19,951	46,107	155,993	171,260	152,819
UAE	19,166	18,453	20,505	19,961	23,471	20,736	17,530	18,045	37,177	34,980
South Korea	16,921	15,660	12,789	11,521	15,366	18,683	18,225	17,859	13,479	9,119
Oman	13,871	16,389	17,184	16,483	15,991	14,297	14,333	13,730	21,393	18,391
Philippines	13,412	12,879	23,232	19,982	19,570	20,407	20,697	20,572	28,908	25,831
Sweden	13,389	10,989	10,939	12,779	16,702	16,875	15,800	15,877	17,879	16,128
South Africa	13,106	11,818	8,641	7,739	9,439	10,312	11,339	10,493	8,964	8,496
Romania	12,706	8,375	6,088	5,636	6,380	4,847	6,055	5,357	4,603	3,983
Sudan	12,462	10,771	10,871	13,206	15,978	16,460	16,898	20,109	18,016	18,636
Brazil	12,447	9,859	5,820	8,159	12,223	12,808	11,064	10,110	9,251	5,282
Japan	11,076	8,458	9,601	7,620	17,039	15,279	15,321	12,829	18,910	12,752
Switzerland	11,017	8,454	7,512	7,940	8,429	7,536	7,683	8,483	10,877	9,199
Mexico	10,843	7,558	4,577	5,319	5,332	5,839	6,060	4,506	6,847	3,978
Algeria	9,519	9,351	9,626	10,220	11,258	10,027	10,250	11,494	18,169	11,866
Belgium	9,070	7,174	6,719	9,954	14,019	13,014	16,053	18,578	21,782	17,844
Singapore	8,668	8,577	8,333	6,413	8,469	8,281	7,746	5,546	4,613	2,393
Denmark	7,940	6,308	5,651	5,591	8,937	9,470	10,088	13,044	9,411	7,143
Ukraine	7,593	7,625	10,828	8,489	8,683	9,058	11,236	10,685	8,684	7,316
Morocco	7,338	7,480	5,690	5,261	5,736	4,231	4,101	3,423	5,401	5,171
Austria	6,891	5,233	5,065	4,803	6,781	6,859	6,773	9,103	10,035	7,303
Greece	6,590	4,204	4,123	3,584	4,402	3,565	3,493	3,505	6,042	5,061
Czechia	6,363	3,200	2,484	2,442	3,175	2,729	3,292	4,786	8,307	8,538
Thailand	6,152	5,299	4,423	2,997	4,920	5,248	7,393	4,976	3,864	2,651
Tunisia	6,130	5,597	5,439	5,129	4,316	4,180	4,520	3,957	6,547	5,643
Slovakia	6,069	1,866	1,163	1,218	1,478	1,257	1,653	2,629	3,755	3,060
New Zealand	5,821	4,584	3,868	3,678	3,897	4,221	4,672	4,890	5,670	4,678
Bulgaria	5,561	3,033	2,141	2,162	2,207	2,061	2,169	2,398	2,499	2,247
Norway	5,045	4,454	4,538	5,450	7,849	10,391	10,381	14,293	9,221	8,035
Lithuania	4,945	1,588	1,250	1,283	1,224	1,070	1,119	1,357
Argentina	4,826	3,904	3,089	3,991	3,782	4,767	4,728	3,579	4,881	3,289
Ireland	4,789	3,933	3,799	3,461	4,404	4,245	4,550	4,210	5,228	4,131
Taiwan	4,502	3,975	3,350	3,085	4,484	3,824	3,662	2,246	2,275	1,680
Hong Kong	3,626	3,051	1,936	1,933	2,528	2,748	2,186	1,975	399	243
Hungary	3,462	2,034	2,414	2,829	4,509	5,904	4,614	5,016	7,467	3,353
Cyprus	3,422	1,642	1,469	1,344	1,615	1,412	2,005	1,761	1,982	1,564
Sri Lanka	3,389	4,014	10,092	10,698	12,390	13,825	13,078	12,166	16,605	15,492
Finland	3,320	3,242	1,884	2,333	6,508	8,437	7,888	6,197	7,689	7,066
Portugal	3,217	2,228	2,390	2,536	3,465	3,002	2,867	2,717	5,867	3,856
Chile	3,055	2,280	1,480	1,618	1,854	2,093	2,129	2,167	2,275	1,564
Nepal	2,959	2,003	1,758	2,100	1,918	2,100	2,732	4,807	5,735	4,021
Colombia	2,916	1,954	1,040	1,763	2,010	2,652	3,251	2,109	1,721	1,244
Ethiopia	2,603	2,777	3,034	4,013	6,006	6,570	4,581	2,264	3,106	2,675
Kazakhstan	2,458	1,518	1,027	1,172	1,197	1,029	972	947	1,222	1,186
Bangladesh	2,375	1,777	14,305	11,034	8,074	4,898	3,784	5,428	6,794	7,359
Belarus	1,883	1,746	1,544	1,110	1,752	2,019	1,660	1,345
Croatia	1,685	1,097	780	812	1,151	1,035	1,160	1,247	1,508	1,014
Afghanistan	1,580	942	674	748	1,282	1,417	1,069	2,518	2,575	1,939
Nigeria	1,299	1,139	882	1,087	1,529	993	590	485	370	567
Estonia	1,280	518	353	455	574	646	692	836
Costa Rica	1,230	1,003	658	674	661	618	909	543
Kenya	1,142	1,462	3,511	2,980	1,184	779	1,400	1,313	587	615
Latvia	1,076	625	572	639	641	520	554	620
Armenia	993	864	700	895	936	781	1,159	796
Vietnam	935	888	358	239	750	350	240	292	202	136
Iran	858	639	720	612	789	707	897	1,132	1,027	1,239
Slovenia	824	594	441	601	853	1,114	1,233	1,006	2,039	1,492
Georgia	766	572	511	403	548	383	472	548
Venezuela	766	824	719	659	925	1,297	1,499	1,288	1,453	1,216
Azerbaijan	646	542	406	378	352	443	434	3,124	3,373	2,207
Iceland	573	256	140	199	159	232	294	261	226	186
Macedonia	494	402	316	1,866	1,355	953	835	552	2,574	2,707
Luxembourg	473	213	178	236	428	305	406	364	560	341
Moldova	241	233	324	382	224	241	241	212
Somalia	220	237	248	249	247	297	569	559	629	701
Djibouti	104	118	111	115	103	72	79	44	46	49
Mauritania	8	12	10	9	14	10	15	16	192	229
Bosnia	0	3	0	0	796	687	916	1,227	2,059	2,128
Other Europe	22,986	20,429	18,137	17,798	6,036	4,058	19,012	18,854	13,988	11,987
Other Africa	10,327	7,886	5,578	4,852	5,128	4,816	4,897	3,985	1,235	1,342
Other America	9,374	7,769	5,662	5,239	4,762	4,984	5,405	4,966	6,001	4,440
Other Asia	2,668	3,056	3,159	2,686	2,370	2,449	2,230	1,312	654	522
Total	3,482,071	3,108,663	3,364,639	3,508,775	4,101,003	4,283,743	5,236,088	5,824,683	7,045,215	6,200,611

See also[]

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Jordan.

• Visa requirements for Jordanian citizens

References[]

External links[]

• Visit Jordan