Temporary Suspension Of Visa Applications For Visa Required Nationals

As of January 29, 2021, visa applications are currently not being accepted from visa required countries until further notice due to COVID-19. The list of visa required countries may be found here.

Exceptions are granted to visa required nationals for priority/emergency cases, such:

• Workers or self-employed persons exercising critical occupations including healthcare workers, frontier and posted workers as well as seasonal workers as referred to in the Guidelines concerning the exercise of the free movement of workers during the COVID-19 outbreak;
• transport workers or transport service providers, including drivers of freight vehicles carrying goods for use in the territory as well as those merely transiting;