Moldova visa requirements
The rule for your own passport, from Moldova's official immigration page, with the date it was last checked. The same answer for every guide in Moldova: Chișinău, Orheiul Vechi, Tiraspol.
No visa neededup to 90 days
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, AZ, AM
Ninety days in 180 without a visa. Transnistria is entered on a slip from its own checkpoint, with a time limit written on it, and is left through the same checkpoint; it does not touch the passport and the Moldovan side does not recognise it. Enter Moldova through Chișinău or a Romanian crossing rather than via Odesa and Transnistria, or the Moldovan stamp is missing when you leave.
e-Visa requiredup to 90 days
Every other passport
Through the foreign ministry’s e-visa portal, in a few days.
Entry rules change often and depend on your passport, your route and the purpose of the trip. Confirm on the official page before booking.
The guides in Moldova
ChișinăuMoldovaThe least-visited capital in Europe, a city of parks and Soviet concrete, with the biggest wine cellars in the world under the hills outside it and a country that wants you to come
Orheiul VechiMoldovaA limestone gorge an hour from the capital with a monastery cut into the cliff, a village of whitewashed houses, and two thousand years of layers under the grass
TiraspolMoldovaThe capital of a country that does not exist: Lenin still standing, a currency nobody else takes, a Soviet main street kept as it was, and a day trip from Chișinău that is stranger than anywhere else in Europe