Montenegro  to open  visa center in Armenia

ArmInfo.Montenegro intends to open a visa center in Armenia in the coming period, as noted in a statement issued by the press service of the Ministry of  Foreign Affairs of Montenegro.

According to the ministry, Montenegro has fully aligned its visa  policy with that of the European Union, thereby fulfilling one of the  key commitments  under the Reform Agenda.  As part of its steps  toward European integration, on 23 July 2026, the Government of  Montenegro adopted the Decree Amending the Decree on the Visa Regime,  pursuant to which nationals of countries whose visa regimes were  previously not aligned with that of the European Union (Belarus,  China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye) will require a visa to enter  Montenegro as of 1 November 2026.

It also added that the most significant development for nationals of  countries requiring a Montenegrin visa is that visa applications will  no longer need to be submitted exclusively through 's diplomatic and  consular missions of. " Thanks to the cooperation with VFS Global,  the world's leading provider of visa outsourcing and technology  services, applications for Montenegrin visas may now be submitted  through VFS Visa Application Centers in India, Bangladesh,  Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Turkiye, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.  .

In the coming period, additional centers will be opened in Pakistan,  China, Armenia, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,  Bahrain, Belarus, Nepal and Uzbekistan, while the network is also  planned to expand to Jordan, Kuwait, Thailand and Indonesia," the  Ministry's statement reads.