Fiji's pet-travel setup is as demanding as it gets: manifest cargo only, no cabin and no checked baggage, a 30-day quarantine, and a titer test with a 180-day wait afterward. Pixel makes friends with every customs officer, but this particular route needs a six-month head start before she even gets that chance.

Pet import to Fiji is regulated by Biosecurity Authority of Fiji (BAF). The core requirements are summarized below: a microchip, a rabies vaccine within the right window, and a government-endorsed health certificate. Some destinations also require a titer test or short quarantine — those are flagged in the table.

Your pet cannot travel in the cabin or as checked baggage to Fiji.

Fiji requires pets to travel as manifest cargo.

“The department does not place any restrictions on the airline you choose. However, the animal must travel as “manifested cargo” (not in the cabin) and in an International Air Transport Association (IATA) approved crate for dogs.”

How Fiji handles your pet

Official sources

Key points

  • Which group you are coming from decides almost everything
  • Group A is Australia, New Zealand and eighteen Pacific neighbours: an import permit, a microchip and seven days of quarantine, with no rabies vaccination and no blood test
  • Group B is everywhere else on the list — the United States, the United Kingdom, the EU, Japan and about seventy more — and it adds a rabies vaccination, an RNATT or FAVN antibody test taken 180 to 365 days before you fly, and thirty days of quarantine
  • That 180-day test window is the longest lead time in the whole process; start there and work backwards
  • If your country is on neither list, BAF is blunt: "If your country is not an approved country mentioned above, your pet is not eligible for direct import into Fiji." The way through is to move the pet to an approved country and complete six months of residency there first
  • The permit is the real rule book
  • Read yours when it arrives, footnotes included, and treat anything else — including this plan — as preparation
  • Quarantine is a floor, not a ceiling
  • Home quarantine is never an option; every cat and dog goes to the BAF Post Entry Quarantine station at Koronivia, near Nausori
  • BAF warns that "7 days quarantine is the minimum requirement only and that any issues that may increase the biosecurity risk posed by the cat may result in a longer stay in post-entry quarantine (for example, if a tick is found on your cat, they will need to stay for 21-30+ days until they repeat their blood testing; at the importer's cost)"
  • Kennel space is booked separately from the permit and BAF asks for six to eight weeks' notice, so book it the day your permit arrives
  • Who cannot travel
  • Note that BAF's own detailed conditions page gives a different pregnancy limit — "Cats must not be more than 30 days pregnant nor be suckling young at the time of export" — so if this affects you, ask the permit section at animalimports@baf.com.fj which figure applies before you book
  • Nursing mothers are excluded either way
  • How the pet travels
  • Cargo only: BAF does not allow cats or dogs in the cabin or as accompanied baggage, the crate must meet IATA Container Requirement 1, and "Each animal must be confined in its own cage/box/crate
  • No two animals or more may travel in one cage." Arriving by boat is a different regime altogether — "All cats and dogs arriving in vessels (via sea) onboard are not eligible to officially import into Fiji and must remain onboard a vessel throughout their stay in Fiji Waters" — so a yacht crossing gets an entry permit, not an import permit, and a three-month limit
  • Passing through counts too: "Cats and dogs are allowed to transit only through Nadi International Airport with a maximum transit period of 12 hours", and that needs its own transit permit
  • Assistance dogs
  • A trained assistance dog still needs the import permit and every pre-export step, but is exempted from the quarantine, on evidence from a body such as the International Guide Dog Federation or Assistance Dogs International
  • Emotional support animals are not: "Emotional support or comfort dogs or any other animal are not considered to be a service or assistance animal", and travel as ordinary pets

Downloadable forms

Each fact comes straight from the operator’s published policy. Tap the to read the exact wording; the opens the source page.

In the cabin Not accepted
In the hold / cargo Accepted

Cabin policy

Pets accepted Not acceptedverified 2026-10-02

Hold & cargo policy

Hold: Pets accepted Not acceptedverified 2026-10-02
Cargo: Pets accepted Acceptedverified 2026-10-02

Health & documents

Microchip · Required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Microchip · StandardISO-compatible (readable by an Avid, Trovan, Destron or other ISO compatible reader)verified 2026-10-02
Microchip · Must be done before vaccination Noverified 2026-10-24
Quarantine · Typeapproved_facilityverified 2026-10-02
Quarantine · Required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Quarantine · Reducible Noverified 2026-10-24
Quarantine · Duration30 daysverified 2026-10-02
Quarantine · Pre-approval required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Quarantine · Approved facility required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Rabies titer test (FAVN) · Required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Rabies titer test (FAVN) · Minimum level iu ml0.5verified 2026-10-02
Rabies titer test (FAVN) · Test validity months12 monthsverified 2026-10-02
Rabies titer test (FAVN) · Approved laboratory required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Rabies titer test (FAVN) · Waiting period after test days180 daysverified 2026-10-02
Import permit · Required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Import permit · Lead time42 daysverified 2026-10-02
Import permit · Issuing authorityBiosecurity Authority of Fiji (BAF)verified 2026-10-02
Import permit · Permit validity180 daysverified 2026-10-02
Flea treatment · Required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Flea treatment · Timing notesStart at least 21 days before the Ehrlichia canis blood draw and keep cover in place until export.verified 2026-10-02
Heartworm test · Required Noverified 2026-10-02
Tick treatment · Required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Health certificate · IssuerOfficial Government Veterinarian of the exporting countryverified 2026-10-02
Health certificate · Required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Health certificate · Endorsed byCompetent Authority of the exporting countryverified 2026-10-02
Health certificate · Validity days5 daysverified 2026-10-02
Health certificate · Government endorsed Yesverified 2026-10-02
Rabies vaccination · Required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Rabies vaccination · Booster required Noverified 2026-10-24
Rabies vaccination · Waiting period after vaccination30 daysverified 2026-10-02
Tapeworm treatment · Required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Internal parasite treatment · Required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Internal parasite treatment · Timing notesTwo treatments at least 14 days apart and within 30 days before export; the second within 4 days before export.verified 2026-10-02
Internal parasite treatment · Drug acceptedpyrantel pamoate, dichlorvos or fenbendazoleverified 2026-10-02

Other rules

Pets accepted Acceptedverified 2026-10-02
Carrier required Yesverified 2026-10-02

Service & assistance animals

Recognized Yesverified 2026-10-02
Quarantine exemption Yesverified 2026-10-02
Import rules modified Yesverified 2026-10-02
Documentation required Yesverified 2026-10-02
Recognized organizations
  • Assistance Dogs International
  • International Guide Dog Federation
verified 2026-10-02

Timing chain

Day -90 microchip implant · Day -30 rabies vaccine deadline · Day -5 health certificate issued · Day 0 arrive at customs

Breed restrictions

Banned breeds: Dogo Argentino, Fila Brasileiro, Japanese Tosa, American Pit Bull Terrier, Pit Bull Terrier, Crosses of any of the above verified 2026-10-02

Ports of entry (2)

  • Nadi International Airport
  • Nausori International Airport

verified 2026-10-02

Fiji requires pets to travel exclusively as manifested cargo in an IATA-approved crate; cabin travel is not an option on any airline flying into the country at all. The department does not restrict which airline you choose, but every one of them must route the animal through cargo regardless. Book the cargo arrangement separately from the passenger ticket, and confirm crate approval before departure.
Dogo Argentinos, Fila Brasileiros, Japanese Tosas, American Pit Bull Terriers, Pit Bull Terriers, and any crosses of these breeds are banned from import to Fiji under the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations. That ban applies to the breed itself, with no exception process available for any individual animal. A dog matching any of these breeds, including a mixed cross, cannot be imported at all.
Fiji's import permit application must be submitted at least 42 days before the proposed export date, and only after the microchip has already been implanted in the animal. Applying with less than six weeks' notice risks the permit not clearing in time for travel. Get the microchip done first, then file the permit a full 42 days ahead of the export date.
Here's the real timeline: microchip first, then a 42-day permit wait, then a titer test with its own 180-day clock, then 30 days of quarantine on arrival. Fiji is a months-ahead country to plan for, not a weeks-ahead one. Get a personalized plan from Pawgo to map that full sequence before you book anything at all.
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Glossary

ISO chip
ISO 11784/11785 — the universal microchip standard.
FAVN
Fluorescent Antibody Virus Neutralization — a rabies serology test required by rabies-free destinations.
Brachycephalic
Snub-nosed breeds (French Bulldogs, Pugs, Persians, Himalayans) with restricted airline acceptance due to heat-stress risk.
AVIH
Animal Vehicle In Hold — IATA's term for cargo pet shipment, with fees that vary by carrier and route.