Clarification on the Madives' visa requirements: 'Entry facilities' and multiple hotels

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The wording is a bit unusual, but point 5 goes together with point 4.

The idea is that you need to leave the Maldives (rather than stay indefinitely, as this is a tourist visa, not a permanent residency or other long-stay visa), so you need to show you will, by having:

  • a ticket to exit the Maldives
  • all necessary documentation to successfully do so.

If you are travelling directly from country of citizenship and back, then just having a return ticket and your passport is enough to satisfy those requirements, because you don't need a visa to go back to your home country.

On the other hand, if after your stay in the Maldives you are travelling to a country which is not your country of citizenship, multiple cases are possible:

  • If you don't need a visa to enter that country, no further documentation is required.
  • If you need a visa or other permit/authorisation, then you need to show that visa (or permanent resident card or other similar documentation).

Also, if you transit via a third country which needs a visa (e.g. transit visa), then you need to show evidence of that as well.

Basically, they don't want you to be blocked in the Maldives because you are supposed to leave to go to some other country but that other country won't let you in (so either the airline won't let you board or the destination country will send you back to the Maldives).

This is a relatively common requirement, though often worded a bit differently.

As for the multiple places of stay, a common option in similar situations in other countries is to list the first place you will be staying at, and then possibly enter additional info (further places + dates) in other fields (for instance in the address field).

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