Jordan’s travel portal names no visa fee and no nationality list. Both are published, on two other government sites that the portal never links to, and one of them can take the fee to zero.
Your passport needs six months
The requirement is explicit: “Passport with a minimum validity of six months.” Qatar asks for three, so if you are adding Jordan to a wider itinerary, check your passport’s expiry against this figure.
Four entry routes
The portal describes the routes without sorting you into one. The default for most visitors is a single-entry tourist visa: “Most tourists visiting Jordan opt for the single-entry tourist visa.”
- Visa on arrival. “Jordan offers visa on arrival for citizens of several countries. Visitors can obtain this visa upon landing at major entry points, including Queen Alia International Airport in Amman.”
- E-visa. “Jordan also provides an electronic visa (e-visa) system, allowing travelers to apply online before their arrival.”
- Pre-approved visa. “Some nationalities may require a pre-approved visa.”
The portal says “citizens of several countries” and “some nationalities” without naming either group, and tells you to “Verify your eligibility for visa on arrival or e-visa based on your nationality.” The list it points at is in the next section.
The Ministry of Interior publishes the nationality list
The Ministry of Interior’s page Restricted and Non Restricted Countries (Nationalities) defines the two categories in one line each: “Restricted Countries: Countries that need prior approval. Non-Restricted Countries: Countries that do not need prior approval.”
It names the restricted countries in full, grouped by continent:
- Asia: fourteen entries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Iraq, Yemen, Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea.
- Africa: thirty-seven.
- South America: two, Belize and Cuba.
One further rule: “Bearers of ‘Travel Pass’ documents issued from all countries are considered restricted, except the Travel Pass document issued by the Vatican City State.”
The list works by exclusion. A passport that does not appear on it is non-restricted and needs no prior approval. A US passport does not appear on it. Check your own passport on the page, because it changes when the policy changes.
The Jordan Pass FAQ says where you can collect the visa: “Queen Alia Airport and Sheikh Hussein Bridge (Jordan River Border) provide visa upon arrival.” Wadi Araba, the Eilat to Aqaba crossing, is the exception and is covered below.
The fee is 40 JOD, and the Jordan Pass waives it
The portal gives no number, saying only that “Visa fees vary based on the type and duration of the visa.” The Jordan Pass, an official scheme promoted from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities home page, gives the figure. The pass “waives the visa fees (40 JDs) only if you are staying 2 consecutive nights and buy it before arrival to Jordan.”
Miss any of three conditions and you pay:
- Two consecutive nights, minimum. The FAQ describes the check: “when you are leaving the country the immigration system at the airport will check if you stayed more than 2 nights, if not, you will be directed to an office to pay the fees.”
- Bought before you arrive. A pass bought after landing still works for the site entries it bundles, but the visa waiver is gone.
- Single entry only. “Jordan pass waives the visa fees of only a single entry visa to Jordan.”
Two further limits. The pass “is not available for Arabic nationality holders,” and it “is valid for use within 3 months following date of purchase,” so a pass bought far ahead of a trip can expire. It is not a visa: “No, Jordan pass is not a visa, it only waives the visa fees.”
Wadi Araba waives the fee without a pass
Entering from Eilat has a separate rule that costs nothing: “If you are entering Jordan from Wadi Araba border and staying in Jordan minimum of 2 nights and then exiting Jordan from the same border, your visa fees will be waived off, without the need of showing a Jordan Pass.”
Leaving by a different route breaks it. Wadi Araba is also the one crossing where visa on arrival is conditional: it “provides visa upon arrival only for Jordan pass holders who are eligible to get a visa upon arrival provided they stay a minimum of 2 whole nights in Jordan.”
A single-entry visa runs one month
The portal gives two stay lengths without saying which one you get: “Tourist visas typically allow stays of 1 month or 3 months, depending on the type and purpose of your visit.” For the single-entry tourist visa, the Jordan Pass FAQ answers it: “The single entry visa is valid for 1 month, and can be extended easily from any police station by paying extra fees.”
Neither page publishes the extension fee. Ask at the police station.
Corrections
18 September 2026. Until today this page argued that Jordan’s government does not publish which nationalities need prior approval, does not give a visa fee, and does not say which stay length applies. All three were wrong. The page also carried two affiliate links to a paid visa service placed on exactly those three gaps, one of them promising to “name a figure for your passport without an embassy call.”
The figure is 40 JOD, and the Ministry of Tourism promotes a scheme that waives it. The Ministry of Interior publishes the nationality list in full. The one-month stay is in the same FAQ as the fee. Both affiliate links are removed, because no gap was left for them, and the sections are rewritten around what the sources say.
Every claim was true of the single page cited at the foot of this page, but each was written as if it were true of the Jordanian government. Selling a reader a paid answer to a question their destination answers for free is the worst case of that error, so it is recorded here.