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Visa & Passports

Need no visa Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Seychelles, Syria, Tunisia, Western Sahara and Yemen. Must apply All other countries.

Getting a visa to Algeria in the last 10-15 years has been highly difficult. Unless you needed one connected to your job. If tourism returns, pre-civil war rules and regulations will probably be authoritative. These involves the need for a visa for all nationals, except for people from other Arab countries. As yet, stamps from Israel, or even worse Israeli passport, leave you with little hope of obtaining one.
In recent years, Algeria is reopening to the world. According to our information, getting visa now is usually easy.
Waiting time may still be a problem. Waiting times of up to a month have not been uncommon, and this time doesn't always result in actually getting the visa. the second obstacle can be the cost. Prices for one-month visas varied from free to US$100, depending on the relationships between your government and the Algerian one. Eligible nations will on the eve of the civil war no longer enjoy the old advantages, and vice versa. Germans should expect to pay just as much as before, French could perhaps hope for free visas, perhaps they might be let into Algeria without visa. Americans should not be too surprised with a stiff increase of costs.
Which place is the better for applying for a visa, will be just as uncertain as before. People travelling in several countries, should apply for a visa from home, some weeks before they set off. But trying to get one in Morocco or Tunisia, should be possible, and might even turn out to be easy in the months to come.