My husband and I are mexican citizens, we want to take a Mediterranean cruise in the summer, a friend said we should ask if the cruise requires us to have a US visa, we plan on booking with Royal Caribbean departing in Venice roundtrip, obviously we would be flying from Mexico City because we do not have US visas??
September 11th, 2009 at 4:35 am
The Royal Caribbean cruise-tours departing from Venice/Italy usually have ports of call in Croatia, Greece and Turkey.
Croatia – based on Article 2 of the Croatian Regulation of the Visa Regime of 4 April 2008 nationals of the United Mexican States do not require a visa for entering the Republic of Croatia for a stay of up to 90 days
Italy and Greece – are two of the 25 Schengen states with have a common visa waiver list. Mexican citizens are visa waived for tourist travel of up to 90 days in a 6 months period.
Turkey – Visa required except for cruise passengers coming to a Turkish port of call by a cruise ship and thereafter leave Turkey by the same cruise ship for another country. They are exempt from visa for a maximum period of 72 hours (with the permission given by the local security authorities)
Source(s):http://www.mfa.hr/MVP.asp?pcpid=1615&dmi…http://www.greekembassy.org/Embassy/cont…http://www.e-konsolosluk.net/InfoNotes/I…
September 11th, 2009 at 5:03 am
I doubt it…few of those companies are American, and you would be Mexican Citizens in Europe…And Americans don’t need visas in Europe for less than three months…is the cruise for more than three months?
I would check with the tour company to be sure, but I doubt it.
Do you need visas as Mexicans? no. I checked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_vi…
I doubt you will have a problem, but check the rules officially for yourselves, just to be sure.
September 11th, 2009 at 5:50 am
No, a US visa is not relevant at all if you’re not going to the US. You would only possibly need a visa for countries where there is a port of call on the cruise. Certainly, you do not need a visa for any of the Schengen area countries for a tourist visit of less than 90 days – you can confirm this at the Italian visa site: http://www.esteri.it/visti/index_eng.asp. The rules are harmonized throughout the Schengen area. The Schengen countries are shown here: http://www.axa-schengen.com/english/sche… Switzerland is also now a member and the land borders are open, but that isn’t relevant to your cruise. The places you would need to check are Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, … that are not Schengen members. You can use this site to determine requirements in the countries you will be visiting: http://serbia.visahq.com/requirements/Me… For Serbia or Croatia, you do not need a visa, but you would need a visa for Albania if the cruise were to stop there.
September 11th, 2009 at 5:59 am
The US requires people even flying *over* US territory to be registered and you would need visas to travel to or simply transit through the US, so it all depends on that flight of yours out of Mexico City.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:07 am
do you mean venice, california? if so you need a visa to travel from mexico to venice and you’ll need one to get off the ship back on venice. while you’re in the mediterranean you should check with royal Caribbean to see if you’ll mexican passport will do.
September 11th, 2009 at 6:31 am
There is no reason at all that you would need a u.S. visa if you are not going to the U.S.. Don’t know where your friend would have gotten such an idea.