1 Customs requirements
1.1 Baggage or articles belonging to disembarking passengers and crew are immediately released except for those selected by the customs authorities for inspection. Such baggage will be cleared on the basis of oral declaration except in the case of returning citizens. Baggage or articles more than 50kg and/or 500 US dollars are declared and cleared without any exception.
1.2 No customs formalities are normally required on departure except for the special cases (less than 10000US dollars, ancient articles and articles of culture, arms, animals of Red Book, plants etc.) when certain procedures are required on the basis of oral declaration.
2 Immigration requirements
2.1 A foreign citizen can arrive to the Republic of Armenia obtaining an entrance visa issued by the corresponding authorities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country and on the border lines obtaining an entrance visa issued by the corresponding authorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, otherwise by the prescribed manner stipulated by international agreements of the Republic of Armenia.
2.2 An entrance visa is not required from the citizens of those countries with which the Republic of Armenia has appropriate agreements (CIS countries).
2.3 For getting an entrance visa of the Republic of Armenia the foreign citizen should fill in questionnaire stated by the Government and perform all the necessary documents. The types of the entrance visas are:
- Transit entrance visa valid for 3 days,
- Tourist entrance visa valid for 21 days.
2.4 Visa obtaining form: The entrance visa is registered in the passport or separately is attached to it.
2.5 For getting an entrance visa the foreign citizen must pay fee according to the prescribed manner and amount of the legislation of the Republic of Armenia.
2.6 Rejection for the entrance visa: The handing over of the visa of the Republic of Armenia to the foreign citizen can be rejected, about which the applicant must be notified.
2.7 For the foreign citizens, people without citizenship and for refugees documents, permitting their exit from the Republic of Armenia are: national abroad passport or internationally recognized identifying documents, to which an entrance visa will be attached.
3 Public health requirements
3.1 Disembarking passengers are not required to present vaccination certificates except when coming directly from an area infected with cholera, yellow fever, malaria, virus fever and others. In these cases sanitary quarantine events are applied.
3.2 On departure, no health formalities are required besides when a citizen of the Republic of Armenia is living for a countries, where during the entrance inoculation is required or an AIDS corresponding certificate.