Estonia visa and entry requirements

The Schengen arithmetic

• 90 days in any rolling 180. Not 90 days per visit and not 90 days per country. Every day anywhere in the Schengen area counts against the same allowance.
• Estonia is a full Schengen member. Arriving from Latvia or Finland involves no passport check, and the Tallinn to Helsinki ferry is an internal crossing.
• The passport must have been issued within the last 10 years and be valid for 3 months beyond your intended departure.
• Estonia is small and the Baltic states are a single trip for most visitors. Days in Latvia and Lithuania come out of the same 90.

The Russian border

• Do not plan a route through Russia. The eastern border is subject to severe restrictions and the old Tallinn to St Petersburg overland trips no longer work as they did.
• Check the FCDO or your own government's current advice before going near the border area, which includes Narva.
• This matters for itineraries more than for safety. Estonia itself is a safe country; it is the crossing that has stopped being routine.

EES: no more stamps

• The EU Entry/Exit System has been fully operational since 10 April 2026.
• Your face and fingerprints are registered on first entry at a Schengen external border, and reused on later trips.
• No stamp goes in your passport. The system computes your 90/180 balance itself.

ETIAS: not yet, and no date

• ETIAS has not launched and there is no announced launch date.
• Applications are not open. Any website selling you an ETIAS today is a scam.
• When it comes, the fee is EUR 20, free for under-18s and over-70s.

Where your nationality lands

• The Schengen short stay visa fee is EUR 90, EUR 45 for children aged 6 to 11.
• E-residency is not a visa. Estonia's e-residency programme gives you a digital identity for running a company; it confers no right to enter or stay, and people do confuse the two.