Immigration Rules Appendix Visitor: Visa national list

List of nationalities requiring entry clearance prior to travel to the UK as a Visitor, or for any other purpose for less than six months

  1. VN 1.1. A person who meets one or more of the criteria below needs entry clearance (a visa) in advance of travel to the UK for any purpose, unless they meet one of the exceptions set out in VN2.1 and VN2.2. (subject to VN 2.3.).
    1. (a) Nationals or citizens of the following countries or territorial entities (a “*” indicates there are exceptions in VN 2.2 to VN 6.5):
      1. Afghanistan
      2. Albania
      3. Algeria
      4. Angola
      5. Armenia
      6. Azerbaijan
      7. Bangladesh
      8. Belarus
      9. Benin
      10. Bhutan
      11. Bolivia
      12. Bosnia Herzegovina
      13. Burkina Faso
      14. Burundi
      15. Cambodia
      16. Cameroon
      17. Cape Verde
      18. Central African Republic
      19. Chad
      20. People’s Republic of China*
      21. Colombia
      22. Comoros
      23. Congo
      24. Côte d’Ivoire (formerly Ivory Coast)
      25. Cuba
      26. Democratic Republic of the Congo
      27. Djibouti
      28. Dominica
      29. Dominican Republic
      30. Ecuador
      31. Egypt
      32. El Salvador
      33. Equatorial Guinea
      34. Eritrea
      35. Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
      36. Ethiopia
      37. Fiji
      38. Gabon
      39. Gambia
      40. Georgia
      41. Ghana
      42. Guinea
      43. Guinea Bissau
      44. Haiti
      45. Honduras
      46. India
      47. Indonesia
      48. Iran
      49. Iraq
      50. Jamaica
      51. Jordan
      52. Kazakhstan
      53. Kenya
      54. Korea (North)
      55. Kosovo
      56. Kyrgyzstan
      57. Laos
      58. Lebanon
      59. Lesotho
      60. Liberia
      61. Libya
      62. Madagascar
      63. Malawi
      64. Mali
      65. Mauritania
      66. Moldova
      67. Mongolia
      68. Montenegro
      69. Morocco
      70. Mozambique
      71. Myanmar (formerly Burma)
      72. Namibia
      73. Nepal
      74. Niger
      75. Nigeria
      76. North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia)
      77. Pakistan
      78. Philippines
      79. Russia
      80. Rwanda
      81. São Tomé and Principe
      82. Senegal
      83. Serbia
      84. Sierra Leone
      85. Somalia
      86. South Africa
      87. South Sudan
      88. Sri Lanka
      89. Sudan
      90. Suriname
      91. Syria
      92. Taiwan*
      93. Tajikistan
      94. Tanzania
      95. Thailand
      96. Timor-Leste
      97. Togo
      98. Trinidad and Tobago
      99. Tunisia
      100. Turkey
      101. Turkmenistan
      102. Uganda
      103. Ukraine
      104. Uzbekistan
      105. Vanuatu
      106. Venezuela
      107. Vietnam
      108. Yemen
      109. Zambia
      110. Zimbabwe
    2. (b) stateless people; and
    3. (c) people travelling on any document other than a national passport, or, in the case of a person to whom paragraphs 11A and 11B of these rules apply, a national identity card, regardless of whether the document is issued by or evidences nationality of a state not listed in VN 1.1. (a), except where that document has been issued by the UK.