South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Partially verified · Research reviewed 2026-09-12
This destination has partial coverage. The procedures below have recorded supporting sources; other requirements remain unverified. Check the destination authority before traveling.
1 published procedures; 0 recorded procedures withheld; 1 open research questions.
At a glance
Source-backed procedures
Visitor entry permit and separate landing/biosecurity documents
Open the official page ↗https://gov.gs/entry-control-order-permit-application/- Channel
- Online
- Fee
- 250 GBP (Visitor permit £250 for 40 days; late application fee £50 per permit inside 8 days; work permits no charge; no refunds. Source levels: the current £250 is confirmed by the 2026-09-29 entry-permit page capture (‘Visitor Permits – £250 for a 40-day permit’), which carries no effective date; ‘From 1 July 2026 : £250 per person’ rests only on the earlier GS-fee capture (gov.gs visitor-permit-fee-update, retrieved 2026-09-12), not re-verified this round. The £50 late fee and the 8-day/3-day cut-offs are confirmed by the 2026-09-29 capture.)
- Authority
- Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI)
- Source verification date
- 2026-09-29
Submit and pay at least 8 days before first intended arrival. Late applications incur GBP50; none is approved 3 days or less before arrival. 2026-09-29: applications must be received and paid at least 8 days before the first intended date of arrival; later applications attract £50 per permit and nothing is approved 3 or fewer days out; visitor permits run 40 days from commencement and can be extended, where justified, by up to 30 more days.
Who it applies to, exceptions and limits (full text)
From 1 August 2025 persons entering for work or visiting need an Entry Permit unless exempt. Visitor permits are 40 days; the current charge is GBP250 per person — the 2026-09-29 capture of this page shows £250 with no effective date, and the 1 July 2026 effective date rests on the June 2026 fee-update notice captured 2026-09-12 (source GS-fee), not restated on this round’s page; work permits differ. Apply individually or through an authorised representative at eta.entry.gov.gs. Adequate evacuation/repatriation health cover is required. Government also publishes landing declarations and a visitor biosecurity self-audit document; these are additional controls whose detailed responsibility must be checked separately. 2026-09-29 page capture: applications are made through the dedicated web portal https://eta.entry.gov.gs (Chrome/Edge only), individually or by an authorised person for a group (travel agent, cruise ship operator, family member) using the GSGSSI Group Entry Permit Application xlsx; each applicant supplies purpose, name and date of birth, nationality, travel document (passport valid for the whole permit duration plus 4 weeks, or a Seafarer’s Identity Document), e-mail contact, health insurance covering emergency evacuation and repatriation of mortal remains, and vessel name with intended first-arrival and departure dates; separate visitor/work applications are required. Permits or refusal notices are sent to the email address provided — the page does not require this to be the applicant’s own address; where a representative’s email is used, the representative must have the applicant’s consent to act on their behalf and is responsible for promptly forwarding all correspondence to the relevant individual. Other unresolved obligations are recorded only in unresolved note GS-audit-1 and are not asserted here.
Based on: GS-entry · GS-fee · GS-govgs-visitors · GS-eta-permit-process-2026-09-29 · GS-eta-late-fee-2026-09-29
Sources
- Entry Control Ordinance — Permit Application
· Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
https://gov.gs/entry-control-order-permit-application/ [GS-entry] - Visitor Permit Fee Update — 3 June 2026
· Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
https://gov.gs/visitor-permit-fee-update/ [GS-fee] - Visitor documents
· Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
https://gov.gs/dlp_document-section/visitors/ [GS-govgs-visitors] - GSGSSI Entry Control Ordinance — Permit Application page (re-captured complete 2026-09-29, HTTP 200, 226,997 bytes): from 1 August 2025 all persons entering for work or visitor purposes require an Entry Permit unless exempted; applications through the dedicated web portal eta.entry.gov.gs (Chrome/Edge only); individual or authorised-person/group applications (GSGSSI Group Entry Permit Application xlsx); received and paid at least 8 days before first intended arrival; applicant data include purpose, name/DOB, nationality, passport valid for permit duration plus 4 weeks (or SID), e-mail, health insurance covering emergency evacuation and repatriation of remains, vessel name and dates
· Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands
https://gov.gs/entry-control-order-permit-application/ [GS-eta-permit-process-2026-09-29] - Same page — timing and late fee: applications submitted later than 8 days prior to the first intended date of arrival attract a late application fee of £50 per permit; no application is approved 3 or fewer days before arrival; visitor permit valid 40 days from commencement, extendable where justified by up to 30 additional days (work permit 6 months, extendable 6 months); permits are not amendable and are not refunded
· Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands
https://gov.gs/entry-control-order-permit-application/ [GS-eta-late-fee-2026-09-29]