What the Albania visa rules mean for United Arab Emirates travellers
United Arab Emirates citizens can enter Albania without a visa and stay for up to 90 days. You only need a valid United Arab Emirates passport at the border; immigration officers may still ask for a return or onward ticket, proof of accommodation and enough money for your stay. The 90-day limit usually counts calendar days from your arrival, so book your return flight inside that window.
Documents to prepare
Whatever your visa status, Albania applies the same entry conditions to every traveller:
- Passport validity: If you do not need a visa, your passport must be valid for at least 3 months beyond your intended departure from Albania and must have been issued within the previous 10 years. If you need a visa, it must be valid for a…
- Vaccinations: Yellow fever: WHO lists Albania as requiring a yellow fever vaccination certificate from travellers aged one year and over arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission.
- Travel insurance: No official source we could read states a travel-insurance requirement for Albania.
- Return or onward ticket: No official source we could read states that a return ticket is required. Albania's Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs says that during border checks the authorities may require a foreign national to present, as ap…
Albania entry rules compared
Albania lets 102 passports in without a visa, issues eVisas to 96. United Arab Emirates citizens are treated the same way as Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Israel and Japan. Overall the United Arab Emirates passport ranks #2 in the world with 128 visa-free destinations.
More travel options
Planning a longer trip in Europe? With a United Arab Emirates passport you can also visit 47 countries in the region without a visa, including Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria and Belarus.
In the other direction, Albania citizens need visa on arrival to visit United Arab Emirates.