Nauru Visa

Hope to stop over in Nauru on route to Tarawa (February). According to the latest LP, a visa is definitely required in adcance. I phoned the Consulate in New York - they gave me an e-mail address for the Melbourne office - but they have not responded. If anyone in Melbourne has a bit of time, could you possibly phone the office there on Collin St. 03-9653 5709 and ask them what it would take for a Canadian to get a visa? I spent some time in Melbourne this spring (opening night Commonwealth games), nice spot - the first image that pops up are the old streetcars lumbering down Chapel St.! There has been an early snowfall here in Winnipeg, heading for Fiji in 2 weeks!!!

Thanks!

Hi Nightrox,
Just read your message (which is right above mine) could you help me on your Pacific travel by taking some post-related pictures for me ( post offices, letterboxes, postmen, postal vehicles, anything post-related and local) in the countries you pass through. I'm finishing a book on "the World's Postal links to the Netherlands" and am desperate in need for some post-related pictures (preferably with some local people and/or streetscenes) from Nauru, Marshall Islands, Palau, PNG, Solomons, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Tonga.
Can you help?
Thanks, Rolf

Your best bet may be to telephone Air Nauru (now called 'Our Airline') in Brisbane. The Melbourne office is soon to be closed down so I'm not surprised by the lack of replies. Nauru House is no longer a Nauruan property and that is where I recall the Consulate was.

I followed Temakin's advice and phoned air Nauru. They gave me the correct e-mail address for the consulate in Melbourne - got a prompt reply from them. The address is consulate@nauru.com.au if anyone needs it.

Nightrox,
See my question above.
Can you?
Thanx, Rolf

Hi. Rolf. I could not open your www. What's up?

I went to Nauru some years ago, and got my visa on arrival. I had booked the Menen Hotel in advance, and they informed immigration and assumed me it would be fine, and indeed it was fine.

have a friend going to nauru on a cruise in october for a week

I was in Nauru in December 1998 and as of then no visa was required. (US citizen; I had a reservation at the Menen Hotel if that mattered, though I ended up staying at the Od'n Aiwo Hotel instead; and has an onward ticket back t Fiji.)

I get the impression that as long as you can show you have a place to stay and have the means to leave they don't expect you to pre-arrange a visa, and they might not even expect you to do that. They're fairly informal. I don't recall being asked much of anything; they just stamped my passport after looking at it for about 30 seconds or so. Unless you're planning on staying for more than about a month you probably won't need a visa.

Please note that I haven't visited for almost 9 years now and from what I gather from other people the situation's probably changed quite a bit. Your best bet is to call Air Nauru (aka Our Airline) and see if they can refer you to someone who knows how to prearrange a visa.

I think if you're just transiting through Nauru and not actually staying there you may be able to be let through on a transit visa on the spot... ask Air Nauru about that too.

Is anybody even reading this anymore? Just realized it's been amost a year since the OP's question...

Anyway in case anyone's still interested, I researched it, and you definitely need a visa prior to arrival to Nauru. Exception being if you have an ongoing ticket good for departure from Nauru no more than 3 days after arrival in Nauru. Even in that case you need either an invitation from a Nauruan citzen and resident or proof of a hotel reservation on Nauru (Hotel Menen and Od'n Aiwo are the only two hotels on the island as far as I know.)

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_979.html