23 dated changes, newest first. A superseded figure is kept beside the one that replaced it, because a site about other people's numbers going stale cannot quietly delete its own history.
A rejected DE Rantau application can no longer be appealed. Combined with the processing fee becoming non-refundable in May 2025, a rejection now costs RM1,080 with no recourse.
Single-entry visa fees went to around ¥15,000 and multiple-entry to around ¥30,000, paid in local currency. This applies to the digital nomad visa along with everything else. Because the digital nomad page itself hasn't been touched since March 2024, anyone watching only that page missed this entirely.
JESTA passed the Diet on 29 May and was promulgated as Act No. 32 of 2026. It is not in force. Commencement is left to a Cabinet Order that has not been issued, with a statutory outer limit of 31 March 2029. Immigration Services aims for the 2028 financial year, which is an aspiration rather than a commitment. The fee was delegated to the same unissued order, so no amount exists.
Citizens of Indonesia and Malaysia who have held a Canadian visitor visa in the past ten years, or hold a valid US non-immigrant visa, can now apply for a CA$7 eTA instead of a visitor visa. It only covers arrival by air — entry by car, bus, train or boat still needs a visa.
Naturalisation now takes seven years for EU and Portuguese-speaking-country nationals and ten for everyone else. The clock also changed: it used to run from the date you applied for your permit, and now runs only from actual legal residence. Only applications already filed by 19 May keep the old rule — being resident on that date does not protect you. Permanent residence is still five years, so the two have now decoupled.
After a phased start in October 2025, the Entry/Exit System now runs at all external crossing points. Your face and fingerprints are recorded, and the system counts your 90-days-in-180 for you rather than relying on passport stamps. There is nothing to apply for and no fee. Holders of residence permits issued by Cyprus or Ireland are still registered.
Previously the authorisation was valid for the UK alone. The Crown Dependencies are now included in the same permission.
The increase took effect at 9am, set by statutory instrument made three weeks earlier. This is the second spring rise in a row — it went from £10 to £16 in April 2025 — which makes mid-March the moment to watch for next year's figure.
The requirement had been in force since April 2025, but carrier enforcement began now. In practice this is the date the rule acquired teeth: previously an oversight might be resolved at the border, and now it stops you at the gate.
The requirement is 200% of the national minimum wage, so it moved automatically when the 2026 wage was set — no announcement, no change to the visa page. This is the pattern to watch: pegged thresholds move every January or February while every guide keeps publishing last year's number.
Both were added to the unilateral visa-free policy, allowing stays of up to 30 days without a visa — currently stated as running until 31 December 2026. The 30 days is counted from midnight on the day after you arrive, not from landing.
Four times the national minimum wage, which went to €920. Same mechanism as Spain — the visa rules didn't change, the wage did, and the bar followed it up.
Three months after the jump to $40, an inflation adjustment took it to $40.27. The odd cents are correct — the law doesn't round. Because the adjustment is annual and mandatory, expect another change around 1 January 2027. A denied application still costs $10.27.
The temporary exemption covering the US, UK, Canada, Australia, most of western Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Macao was extended to 31 December 2026. It has been rolled forward every year so far, and each decision has landed in late December — so the 2027 answer should arrive around then.
The delegated regulation setting the fee at €20 entered into force, replacing €7. But it only takes effect once ETIAS is operational, and ETIAS is not: no applications are being collected, and the Commission has published no launch date. Under-18s and over-70s will pay nothing.
A permit holder must now hold their permit for two years before applying to bring family — fifteen months for a spouse who lived with them for eighteen months before entry. Previously it could be done immediately. The D8 visa itself was untouched by the reform, which is why this change is easy to miss when reading about it.
Biometric registration began at selected crossings under a temporary derogation allowing a progressive start, ahead of full operation the following April.
The increase implemented a provision of the July 2025 budget act. It held for three months before the inflation adjustment superseded it — which is why $40 is still quoted so widely and is no longer right.
The budget act created a “visa integrity fee” for nonimmigrant visa holders. More than a year on, no implementing rule has been published and the State Department's fee page doesn't mention it. The $250 is a statutory minimum rather than a price, and the “refundable” description is generous: reimbursement would be discretionary, only after the visa expires, and no mechanism exists.
China's visa-free transit allows up to 240 hours — ten days — through 65 ports, provided you hold an onward ticket to a third country. Pages still describing a 144-hour allowance are describing the old rule.
The first increase since the scheme opened in October 2023, and the start of what now looks like an annual spring pattern.
The final phase of the rollout. Every eligible non-visa national now needs one, though British and Irish citizens are exempt — and dual British-Irish citizens cannot obtain one at all.
The conservation and tourism levy went from NZ$35 to NZ$100 per person, charged alongside the NZeTA. With the NZeTA itself that makes NZ$117 through the app or NZ$123 through the website. Transit NZeTAs carry no levy.