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Test your Qatar entry route and permitted stay, price the compulsory visitor health insurance, and build the document checklist for arrival.
Qatar waives the visa for roughly a hundred nationalities, split into a band admitted for 90 days in any rolling 180-day period and a band admitted for 30 days extendable once by 30 — but since 1 February 2023 every visitor, of any age, must hold health insurance bought from a company registered with Qatar's Ministry of Public Health. This checklist tests your stay against the right band, counts six months of passport validity from your arrival date, works out how many 30-day policy periods your trip needs, and lists what immigration and customs will actually ask for.
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Tests 90 days in 180 and 30 days plus extension as different rules, because they are.
Cover is sold in 30-day periods, so a 35-day trip needs two — the maths is done for you.
Cash above QAR 50,000, prohibited vaping devices and controlled medicines all get their own line.
Yes. Since 1 February 2023 every visitor must hold a policy covering emergency and basic healthcare for the whole stay, issued by an insurance company registered with Qatar's Ministry of Public Health. Cover from your own insurer at home does not satisfy the rule unless that company is registered in Qatar, and the standard visitor policy has been sold at around QAR 50 for 30 days.
It depends which band of the waiver scheme your nationality falls into. The wider band is admitted for up to 90 days within any rolling 180-day period with multiple entries; the other band gets 30 days, extendable once inside Qatar for a further 30. The waiver is granted at the counter, but the airline still checks your passport, ticket and insurance before boarding.
Yes, if you hold a transit visa. It is free and available for connections between 5 and 96 hours, applied for through the airline or the Hayya platform before you travel rather than on the day. It admits you for up to 96 hours, which is enough for a short stopover.
Visitors may not import alcohol — it is served only in licensed hotel venues — and electronic cigarettes and vaping devices are prohibited outright, along with pork products and narcotics. Cash and negotiable instruments above QAR 50,000 must be declared, and many medicines that are sold freely elsewhere are controlled, so carry them in labelled packaging with the prescription.