Romania Names the Union Regulation and Then Writes the Ninety Days Out in Full - and Gives You and Your Host Three Days to Tell the Police
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Cyprus on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Cyprus to Romania · Visiting as a tourist
Whether a short visit needs a visa is decided by Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, and Romania is unusual in this corpus in saying so by name twice over. Article 27(3) of Ordinance 194/2002 states that the list of nationalities needing a visa is the one in Annex I to the Regulation, and article 11(2) writes the allowance out in full: no more than 90 days in any 180-day period preceding each day of stay, counted across the whole Schengen area rather than across Romania. Czechia and Croatia do neither - their Acts point at the directly applicable instrument and stop. What Romania adds on top is money and paperwork. Entry requires proof of means of 50 euro a day for the whole stay and never less than 500 euro, a figure the Ordinance has carried in this form since Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 amended it on 27 April 2026. And the reporting duty falls on two people at once: under article 12(1) the foreigner who has entered lawfully and the person putting them up each have three days to tell the territorially competent police. A hotel does it for you, within 24 hours.
At a glance
- Who decides the visa
- A Union regulation, named in the Romanian Ordinance
Article 27(3) of Ordinance 194/2002 states that the list of nationalities needing a visa is Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/1806.
- Visa-free stay
- 90 days in any 180-day period
Article 11(2) of Ordinance 194/2002, which restates the Union measure rather than deferring to it, and counts the days across the territory of any Schengen state.
- Where your nationality sits
- Annex I needs a visa, Annex II does not
- Money at the border
- 50 euro a day, and never less than 500 euro
Article 6(1)(c) of Ordinance 194/2002, as amended on 27 April 2026 by point 4 of article 45, Title II of Emergency Ordinance 32/2026. The amounts are stated in euro in the Ordinance itself, or the equivalent in convertible currency.
- Report of your address
- To the territorially competent police, within 3 days of entry
Article 12(1) of Ordinance 194/2002, which puts the same duty and the same three days on the person providing the accommodation.
- If you are in a hotel
- The hotel reports you within 24 hours
Article 12(2) of Ordinance 194/2002, which replaces the traveller's own formality with registration at the establishment.
Requirements
- A visa, if your nationality is in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/1806
- No visa, for a stay of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period, if your nationality is in Annex II
- A travel document accepted by the Romanian state
- Proof of means of at least 50 euro a day for the whole stay, and never less than 500 euro
- A report to the territorially competent police within three days of entry, made by you and separately by whoever is putting you up, unless you are staying in a hotel
Country-level policy
Romania publishes its law in Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, and that is the only text with legal force. Everything a reader can actually open is a consolidation, and Romanian consolidations are unusually honest about what they are. The consolidated text of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 that the immigration authority itself publishes prints, above the first article, that the content of this act belongs exclusively to S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. It then prints something more useful still: a window. The copy read for these records states that it is valid from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026 - a four-day window that closed more than five months before it was read, because an amendment took effect on 1 May 2026 and this file was never replaced. The consolidation of Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on the same site carries a window that closed on 14 March 2024. The tax administration says the same thing in its own words about the Fiscal Code: the text is updated by electronic means and is not a republication, and it names the last amending law rather than a date to which anything was swept. A Romanian text that looks current is making two separate claims, and the smaller print tells you which one has expired.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Cyprus
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Nationals of third countries listed in Annex I shall be required to be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States.»The visa requirement, stated as a list of nationalities rather than as a test about the traveller.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.
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«Nationals of third countries listed in Annex II shall be exempt from the requirement set out in Article 3(1) for stays of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period.»The exemption and its measure. Ninety days in any 180-day period is a rolling window, not an allowance that resets on each entry.
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The Union's legal database. Publishes each act as adopted in the Official Journal and, separately, a consolidated version carrying every amendment to a stated date, identified as 0YYYYRNNNN-YYYYMMDD. The consolidated text marks each amended passage with the instrument that changed it.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.
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«(3) Lista statelor ai căror cetăţeni au nevoie de viză pentru a intra pe teritoriul României este cea prevăzută în anexa nr. I la Regulamentul (UE) 2018/1.806 al Parlamentului European şi al Consiliului.»Our translation - not official
The list of states whose nationals need a visa to enter the territory of Romania is the one laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Romania names the Union instrument in its own Ordinance. Czechia's Act refers to it only as the directly applicable instrument and never names the annexes.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«(2) Străinilor care nu au obligaţia obţinerii vizei în conformitate cu prevederile Regulamentului (UE) 2018/1.806 al Parlamentului European şi al Consiliului din 14 noiembrie 2018 de stabilire a listei ţărilor terţe ai căror resortisanţi trebuie să deţină viză pentru trecerea frontierelor externe şi a listei ţărilor terţe ai căror resortisanţi sunt exoneraţi de această obligaţie, cu modificările ulterioare, li se permite intrarea pe teritoriul României şi pot să rămână pentru o perioadă de maximum 90 de zile în decursul oricărei perioade de 180 de zile precedente fiecărei zile de şedere pe teritoriul oricărui stat Schengen.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners who are not required to obtain a visa in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 establishing the list of third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement, as amended, are permitted to enter the territory of Romania and may remain for a period of at most 90 days within any period of 180 days preceding each day of stay on the territory of any Schengen state.
The measure is written into Romanian law in full, and counted across the Schengen area rather than across Romania.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«c) prezintă, în condiţiile prezentei ordonanţe de urgenţă, documente care justifică scopul şi condiţiile şederii lor şi care fac dovada existenţei unor mijloace corespunzătoare atât pentru întreţinere pe perioada şederii, cât şi pentru întoarcerea în ţara de origine sau pentru tranzitul către alt stat în care există siguranţa că li se va permite intrarea, în cuantum de 50 euro/zi pentru întreaga perioadă, dar nu mai puţin de 500 euro ori echivalentul în valută convertibilă în cazul vizelor uniforme şi al vizelor cu valabilitate teritorială limitată, sau, după caz, în cuantumul prevăzut pentru fiecare tip de viză de lungă şedere;»The means test at the border, amended on 27 April 2026 by Emergency Ordinance 32/2026. Article 6(2) exempts family members of Romanian citizens and holders of long-term residence in another member state from this condition and from the guarantee condition in letter d).
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«(1) Străinul intrat legal pe teritoriul României, precum şi persoana care îl găzduieşte au obligaţia să anunţe despre aceasta organul de poliţie competent teritorial, în termen de 3 zile de la data intrării şi, respectiv, a găzduirii.»Our translation - not official
A foreigner who has entered the territory of Romania lawfully, and the person accommodating them, are obliged to notify the territorially competent police organ within 3 days of the date of entry and of the accommodation respectively.
Two separate duties on two people, both running from the same three days. Article 12(4) allows both to be discharged through an application made available for the purpose by the Inspectorate General for Immigration.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«(2) În situaţia cazării în hoteluri sau în alte amenajări turistice, străinul va îndeplini formalităţile de luare în evidenţă la administraţia locului respectiv care, în termen de 24 de ore, va comunica datele necesare organului de poliţie competent teritorial.»Our translation - not official
Where accommodation is in hotels or other tourist establishments, the foreigner shall complete the formalities of registration with the management of that place, which within 24 hours shall communicate the necessary data to the territorially competent police organ.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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Practical notes
Being exempt from a visa is not a right of entry. The Schengen Borders Code sets what an officer checks at the external border, and this record does not reach it.
The same two annexes govern every Schengen state, so the answer given here is the answer the Austrian, Belgian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, French, German, Italian, Luxembourgish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish records give.
The Ordinance dates Romania's full application of the Schengen acquis itself. Notes attached to several of its articles state that from 31 March 2024, as stipulated in Decision (EU) 2024/210 on the full application of the provisions of the Schengen acquis in Bulgaria and Romania, provisions held in suspense until then take legal effect. Neither that Decision nor any later one was read for this record.
This record rests on the Ordinance and on the Union regulation. Orders of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and of the Minister of Internal Affairs set airport transit requirements and were not read.
- consolidatesRegulation (EU) 2018/1806, consolidated text
EUR-Lex, Publications Office of the European Union · consolidated to 2025-12-30
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.
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- administersOrdonanţa de urgenţă a Guvernului nr. 194/2002 privind regimul străinilor în România, formă consolidată
Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrări · consolidated to 2026-04-30
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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