How to obtain a dive visa for diving in Myanmar (Burma)

If you like to join a dive tour to Myanmar (Burma), you will need a special Dive Visa, which allows you to visit the country for diving. This visum will be stamped in your passport by the Myanmar Immigration once entering the country via a liveaboard dive tour.

This visa has to be applied for by the dive company where you will join the dive tour with.

You can't apply for a Dive Visa at a Burmese Ambassy or Consulate. At the Embassies and Consulates you can apply for a Tourist Visa, which is not the same as a Dive Visa. A Tourist Visa allows you to enter Myanmar to travel inland via roads, a Dive Visa allows you to enter Myanmar by boat in order travel to and dive at dive destinations within the Mergui Archipelago.

Providing your details for a visa application

So if you like to join a dive tour with us, we will need the following information from you to obtain your dive visa:

• Personal details:
  First name | Last Name | Gender | Nationality | Date of birth | Place of birth | Home address

• Passport details:
  Passport number | Place of issue | Date of issue | Date of expiry

As soon as we receive a booking from you for a liveaboard dive tour to Myanmar, we will ask you for these details. These details have to be sended, following new regulations, latest 10 days before the start of the dive tour, to the Myanmar Immigration Department, in order to prepare your visa prior to your arrival. Your personal- and passport details will not be provided by us to third parties.

You should also bring the following with you upon arrival

Before we will set off on tour, we will double check that everybody carries the following documents with them. These documents are needed by the Myanmar immigration when you arrive, so it is very important that you have them with you. Make sure that your documents are well ready and completely fine: not doing so may cause a big delay in departure.

• Your passport
  You won't be allowed in Myanmar without, also not if your passport is at an Embassy elsewhere waiting for a visa
• 2 Copies of your passport
  You do not need copies of your full passport, only 2 copies of the page with your photo and passdetails
• 2 Recent passport photos
  Write clearly and without pressing your name and passportnumber at the back side of the photos
• The visa amount in cash
  Please see the visa fee amounts for each tour within our Price List. Fees are accepted in USD, Euro or Thai Baht. The visa rates are charged by the Myanmar Immigration in USD. If you like to pay in another currency, please note that the Myanmar Immigration may charge other exchange rates as those used in banks. In Ranong it is not easy to get USD at banks, so it is better to bring these from elsewhere.

National Marine Park fees

At the Surin National Marine Park and at Similan National Marine Park, every diver or snorkeler has to pay National Marine Park fees. The fees will be paid at the head quarters of the National Marine Parks, sometimes the park rangers come by themselves by speedboat to the boat for collecting the fees.

Collecting of fees before departure

Prior to a departure of a day trip or a dive tour we will collect the fees from each participant, to make sure all fees are onboard before we will set off to the National Marine Parks.

Costs of the fees

The fee amounts are listed at each dive tour within our Price List. 

National Marine Park fees only can be paid in Thai Baht.