Guidelines

Requirements Travelling to the Maldives

Travelers must have a confirmed pre-booking and provide emergency contact information.
Travelers must have a passport or travel document valid for a minimum 30 days from date of entry to
the Maldives.
A certificate showing a negative PCR test taken a maximum of 96 hours prior to your flight departing
from your country of origin. This is a requirement for all passengers including children from 1 years old.
The online health declaration form IMUGA must also be completed within the 48 hour period prior to
arrival in the Maldives and requires your PCR certificate to be uploaded. You will receive a QR code if
the submission is completed successfully. If you not receive a QR code, go back and review your
answers as this signifies that information is either missing or entered incorrectly.
Travelers who have a history of contact with a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 within the
past 14 days and/or who have fever or respiratory symptoms such as cough, sore throat, shortness of
breath within the past 14 days should not travel to Maldives.
Whilst not a requirement of entry, travelers are also encouraged to download the HPA ‘Trace Ekee’
app to assist with contact tracing upon arrival at Male International Airport. A Maldivian SIM card will
be required in order to use.

All travelers must hold a negative result for a nucleic acid test (PCR test) COVID-19 prior to entry into
the Maldives.
The sample for the PCR test must be taken not more than 96 hours prior to the scheduled time of
departure from the first port of embarkation en route to Maldives.
Children below one year old are exempt from the requirement of a COVID-19 test.
If the passenger makes a transit during the journey, the initial PCR test will be valid if the transit does
not exceed 24 hours.
If a passenger makes a transit exceeding 24 hours the passenger must take a repeat PCR test within
72 hours prior to embarkation at the port of transit.
The document containing the test result should state:
Name of the passenger (name as in passport)
Name and address of the testing laboratory
Type of test stated as PCR test
Date of sampling
Result
The PCR test result should be submitted through the online Health Declaration Form IMUGA portal
within 48 hours prior to embarkation. In addition, the laboratory result should be presented in paper or
electronic format during airline check-in and maybe required upon arrival in the Maldives at
immigration Male International Airport.

We ask that you travel responsibly.
Ensure that you have appropriate travel insurance.
We request you to bring sufficient facemasks. You’ll be required to wear it on the airplane, at airports,
during transfer to and from the airport and potentially other settings based on local guidelines.
We ask that if you are feeling under the weather you let us know as soon as possible.
We ask you to wash your hands regularly, carry hand sanitizer and observe social distancing.

All tourists staying on a local island must complete a mandatory PCR test within 72 hours before departure from their final local island stay.
The IMUGA online health declaration form must also be completed within the 48 hour period prior to
departure from the Maldives and requires your PCR certificate to be uploaded.