Montenegro

Identity Card


POSITION:
Montenegro is situated in South-East Europe, on the Balkan peninsula with access to the Adriatic Sea.

AREA:
Montenegro covers a territory of 13,812 sq. km.

CAPITAL CITY:
Podgorica

BORDERS:
The length of the coastline is 294 km. Montenegro borders on Serbia, republic of Serbian, so-called Croatia and Albania.

TERRAIN:
The northern part is, for the most part, flat country, the central part is hilly and mountainous and the southern part is littoral.

CLIMATE:
The climate is continental in the north and Mediterranean in the south.

CURRENCY:
The legal tender in Montenegro is the Eure.

Population
NUMBER OF INHABITANTS:
Montenegro has a population of 650,575 inhabitants.

NATIONAL MAKE-UP:
Serbs account for 61.9 percent of the population of Montenegro. National minorities are guaranteed rights under the highest international standards.

RELIGION:
SCG is a multi-confessional state union. Orthodox Christians are the most numerous. There are also other religious communities - the Islamic, the Roman Catholic, the Protestant, the Jewish community and others.

LANGUAGE:
The Serbian language of the Ekavian and Iekavian dialect is in official use in Montenegro. The official script is the Cyrillic script and the Latin script is used as well. In the areas of Montenegro inhabited by national minorities, their languages and scripts are in official use as well.

TEMPORARY VISA REGIME

The nationals of Andorra, Australia, Israel, the Republic of Island, Canada, the Republic of Korea, Lichtenstein, the Principality of Monaco, the Kingdom of Norway, New Zealand, the Republic of San Marino, the Republic of Singapore, the United States of America, the Confederation of Switzerland and the representatives of Vatican may enter and stay within the territory of Montenegro up to 90 days and may be in transit over the territory of Montenegro on the basis of a valid travel document.

The nationals of the Republic of Austria, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Greece, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Italy, the Republic of Ireland, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Latvia, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Hungary, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Portugal, Slovak Republic, the Republic of Slovenia, the Republic of Finland, the Republic of France, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland may enter and stay within the territory of Montenegro up to 90 days and may be in transit over the territory of Montenegro on the basis of a valid travel document.

The nationals of the Republic of Albania, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine may enter and stay in Montenegro for the purpose of tourist visits individually or in package tours, on the basis of a valid travel document without a visa, with the issuance of a tourist visa. A tourist visa is issued by an administrative body in charge of border crossing checks, free of charge, with the validity period of 30 days.

The nationals of the Republic of Serbia may enter and stay in Montenegro under the same conditions as Montenegrin nationals.

The nationals of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Croatia may enter and stay within the territory of Montenegro up to 90 days and may be in transit over the territory of Montenegro on the basis of a valid travel document.

A holder of a travel document issued by the Organisation of United Nations or its specialised agencies may enter and stay in Montenegro for up to 90 days, or be in transit over the territory of Montenegro.

Knights of the Maltese Order may enter Montenegro without visas and stay up to 90 days or be in transit over the territory of Montenegro.

A holder of a special travel document for refugees, issued by a contracting party to the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugee Status, travel documents for stateless persons, issued by a contracting party to the 1954 Geneva Convention on Stateless Persons and a travel document for a foreign national, or a travel document of equal status, may enter and stay in Montenegro up to 90 days and transit over Montenegrin territory if the document bears a visa or an approval of stay.

Based on the concluded bilateral agreements on abolishing visas for diplomatic or official passports or the introduction of the clause “Business” in the passport, or the conditions of travel of nationals, nationals of these states may enter, stay and transit the territory of Montenegro pursuant to these agreements.

The nationals of the Republic of Albania, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Ukraine, holding residence permits in European Union member states, other member states to the Schengen Agreement and the Switzerland Confederation, may transit the territory of Montenegro within five days from the day of entry into Montenegro.

A holder of a valid diplomatic, official and personal passport, accredited with the previous Diplomatic Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Montenegro or bearing a stamp in his/her passport by the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro or being issued a special ID, may enter Montenegro without a visa.

Visas issued by diplomatic or consular bodies of Serbia and Montenegro shall be valid until their expiry date.

With the day this decision enters into force, the Decision on Abolishing Visas for Entry and Stay in Serbia and Montenegro and the Decision to Abolish Visas for Transit over the territory of Serbia and Montenegro for the Nationals of the Republic of Turkey, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Ukraine and the Republic of Albania shall cease to be applied, as well as the Decision on the conditions under which foreign nationals may enter and stay in Montenegro.

This Decision shall be applied until the visa regulation adopted pursuant to the law regulating the stay of foreigners comes into force.