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Have entry requirements to their onward destination; for example, the visa and passport validity. [15] Have Traveller Declaration form filled in and submitted by all foreigners arriving to the Maldives, within 96 hours (4 days) to the flight time. Submission of the form is free of charge and must be filled electronically via the IMUGA portal. [15]
A Maldivian passport. Visa requirements for Maldivian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of the Maldives.. As of 2024, Maldivian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 96 countries and territories, ranking the Maldivian passport 57th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.
Any person, who wishes to become a citizen of Maldives, shall submit a written application to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provided they fulfill the following conditions; [2] They are Muslim; They have attained the age of 21 and is of sound mind; They have resided in the Maldives for a continuous period of 12 years.
The Ministry of Homeland Security & Technology, formerly known as the Ministry of Home Affairs is part of the Maldivian Executive branch responsible for maintaining law and order in the Maldives at the national level. It was introduced in 1932 after the Maldivian independence under president Ibrahim Nasir, the second president of Maldives.
The Maldives is the first country in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAARC to introduce such a sophisticated bio-metric passport. According to the Henley Passport Index (2024 update), Maldivian passport is the most powerful passport in South Asia, ranked globally at 58, [3] enabling travel to 94 [3] countries without a ...
The Maldives, [d] officially the Republic of Maldives, [e] and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India , about 750 kilometres (470 miles; 400 nautical miles) from the Asian continent's mainland.
This is a list of diplomatic missions of the Maldives. The Maldives has ties to the Commonwealth and the Islamic world, but does not seek to have an extensive number of foreign missions. The High Commission in London was only opened as recently as 1995 - the High Commissioner died the following year and it took until 2005 for a replacement to ...
The Maldivian diaspora refers to the community of Maldivians, speakers of the Maldivian language, who have either emigrated from the Republic of Maldives or grew up outside of the Maldives speaking Dhivehi as a first language. The Republic of Maldives is a South Asian country geographically located in the Indian Ocean, Laccadive Sea and Arabian ...