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FCDO travel advice for Maldives. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 12 December 2025

• Warnings and insurance

  Before you travel No travel can be guaranteed safe. Read all the advice in…

• Entry requirements

  This information is for people travelling on a full ‘British citizen’…

• Safety and security

  Terrorism There is a high threat of terrorist attack globally affecting UK…

• Health

  Before you travel check that: your destination can provide the healthcare…

• Getting help

  The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) cannot provide…

Official information British people moving to and living in Maldives need to know, including residency, healthcare and driving.

• Updated: 9 November 2023

Updates, news and events from the UK government in Maldives

• Updated: 15 August 2017

Statement by the UK's Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Jamie Hamill, at Maldives' Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

• Updated: 10 November 2025

Includes travel advice and how to get married abroad.

• Updated: 29 June 2017

This information is provided to help British nationals overseas following a rape or other form of sexual assault overseas.

• Updated: 2 February 2022

Information to help the family and friends of British nationals who have died in Maldives.

• Updated: 24 March 2020

Information on the Maldivian legal and prison systems for British prisoners, their family and friends.

• Updated: 22 July 2021

List of English speaking medical facilities for British nationals in Maldives.

• Updated: 8 December 2020

The main finding of this research is that there is a significant dividend associated with building resilient infrastructure

• Updated: 11 August 2022