Visa requirements for Egyptian citizens are administrative entry restrictions imposed on citizens of Egypt by the authorities of other states.
On 27 July 2022, Egyptian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 54 countries and territories, ranking the Egyptian passport 94th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.[1]
However, according to the most up-to-date list compiled on this wiki, Egyptian passport holders can enter 72 countries (not counting dependent and partially unrecognized territories) with Visa on arrival, or easy eVisas or complete visa free under certain conditions (See table and map below). In addition, several states have updated their rules recently to allow holders of valid Schegen/EU, UK, USA, Japan and Australia visa and residence permits to enter visa free under certain conditions, as listed below in the table.
Some countries require transit visas even if the Egyptian national remains airside (i.e. does not go through passport control). These include: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and a minority of European states.
Country | Visa requirement | Allowed stay | Notes (excluding departure fees) |
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Visa not required[3] |
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Visa not required. However see notes[5] |
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Visa required[7] | ||
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Electronic Entry Visa[8] | 1 month | |
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Visa required[9] | ||
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eVisa[10] | 120 days | |
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Visa required[11] |
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Visa required[13] | ||
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Visa required[15] |
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eVisa[16] | 14 days | |
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Visa required[17] | ||
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Visa not required[18] | Temporary Visa waiver granted on the 11th of August 2022 by the government of Barbados. Check here https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/43-countries-granted-temporary-visa-waivers/ | |
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Visa required[19] | ||
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Visa required[20] | ||
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Visa required[21] |
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Visa not required[22] | 90 days[23][24] | |
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Visa required[25] | ||
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Visa on arrival[26] | 90 days | |
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Visa free for Schengen/EU/USA Visa and resident permit holder[27][28] | ||
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eVisa[30] | 3 months |
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Visa required[32] | ||
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Visa required[33] | ||
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EU member state: Visa free for Schengen/EU Visa and resident permit holder[34][35] |
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Visa on arrival[36] | 1 month | |
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Visa not required[37] | ||
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[38] | 30 days | |
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Visa required[39] | ||
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Visa required[40] | ||
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Visa on arrival[41] | 3 months | |
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Visa required[46] |
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Visa on arrival[48] | 45 days | |
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Visa required[49] | ||
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Visa required[50] | ||
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Visa required[51] |
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eVisa[52] | ||
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EU member state: Visa free for Schengen/EU Visa and resident permit holder[53][54] |
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Tourist Card required[55] |
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EU member state: Visa free for Schengen/EU Visa and resident permit holder[56][57] |
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Visa required[58] | ||
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Visa required[59] | ||
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eVisa[60] | 31 days | |
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Visa not required[61] | 21 days | |
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Visa required[62] |
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Visa required[63][64] | ||
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Visa required[65] | ||
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Visa required[66] | ||
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Visa required[67] | ||
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Visa required[68] | ||
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Visa required[69] | ||
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eVisa / Visa on arrival | up to 90 days |
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Visa required[72] | ||
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Visa required[73] | ||
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Visa required[74] | ||
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eVisa[75] |
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Visa required[76][77] | ||
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eVisa[78] |
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Visa required[80] | ||
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Visa on arrival[81] | 30 days | |
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Visa required[82] | ||
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Visa required[83] | ||
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Visa required[84] |
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Visa not required[85] | ||
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[86] | 90 days | |
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eVisa[87] | ||
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Visa not required[88] | 3 months | |
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Visa required[89] | ||
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Visa required[90] | ||
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Visa required[92] | ||
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Visa on arrival[93] | 30 days | |
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Visa not required[94][95] | 20 days | |
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Visa required[96] | ||
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Visa required[97] | ||
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Visa required[98] | ||
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Visa required[101] | ||
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Visa required[102] |
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Visa required[103] | ||
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Visa not required[104] | 1 month | |
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Visa required[105] | ||
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Electronic Visa[106] | ||
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Visa required[107] | ||
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Visa required[108] | ||
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Visa required[108] | ||
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Visa required[109] | ||
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eVisa[110] |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[112] | 30 days |
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Visa required[115] | ||
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Conditional Visa on arrival[116] | 30 days |
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eVisa[118][119] | ||
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Visa required[120] | ||
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Visa required[121] | ||
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Visa required[123] | ||
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Visa required[124] | ||
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[125] | 90 days | |
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eVisa[126] | ||
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Visa not required[127] | 90 days | |
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Visa on arrival[128] | 30 days | |
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Visa required[129] | ||
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Visa required[130] | ||
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Visa on arrival[131] | 90 days | |
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Visa on arrival[132] |
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Visa not required[133] | 90 days | |
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Visa free for Schengen/EU/UK/USA/Canada/Japan Visa and resident permit holder[134] |
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Visa not required[135] | 30 days | |
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Visa required[136] | ||
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Visa required[137] |
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Visa required[138] | ||
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Visa free for Schengen/EU/USA/UK/Australia/Japan/Canada/New Zealand visa and resident permit holder[139][140] |
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Visa required[141] | ||
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Visa on arrival[142] | 30 days[143] | |
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eVisa[144] | 28 days |
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Visa required[145] | ||
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Visa required[146] | ||
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Visa on arrival[147] | 90 days | |
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Visa required[148] | ||
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Visa required[149] |
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Visa on arrival[151] | 90 days | |
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Visa required[152] | ||
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Visa required[153] | ||
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Visa free for Schengen/EU/USA/Canada Visa and resident permit holder[154][155] |
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Visa required[156] | ||
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Visa not required[157] | 14 days | |
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Online Visa[158] | ||
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Visa on arrival[161] | 30 days | |
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Visa required[162] | ||
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Visa required[163] | ||
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Visa required[164] | ||
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Visa required[168] | ||
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eVisa[169][170] | 30 days | |
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EU member state: Visa free for Schengen/EU Visa and resident permit holder[171][172] |
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Visa required[173] | ||
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[174] | 30 days | |
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Visa not required[175] | 3 months | |
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Visa required[176] | ||
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Visa not required[177] | 1 month | |
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Entry Permit on arrival[178] | 60 days | |
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Visa required[179] |
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eVisa[180] |
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Visa free for Schengen/UK/USA Visa holders only[182][183] | ||
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Visa on arrival[186][187] | 90 days | |
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Visa not required[188] | 30 days |
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Visitor's Permit on arrival[189] | 3 months | |
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Visa required[190] | ||
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Visa required[191] | ||
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Visa required[194] | ||
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Visa on arrival[195] | 30 days |
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eVisa[196] |
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Visa not required[198] | ||
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Visa required[199] | ||
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Visa not required[201] |
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eVisa[202] | ||
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Visa required[203] | ||
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eVisa[209] | 45 days |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[211] | 3 months | |
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Visa required[212] | ||
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Visa on arrival[213] | 30 days | |
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Visa on arrival[214] | 7 days | |
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Visa required[215] | ||
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Visa required[217] |
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Visa free for Schengen/Ireland/UK/USA Visa and resident permit holder[218][219] |
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Visa required[220] | ||
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Visa on arrival[221] | 1 month | |
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[222] | 3 months |
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Visa required[224] | ||
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eVisa[225] | 30 days |
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eVisa[230] | 30 days | |
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Visa on arrival[235] | 3 months | |
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eVisa[236][237] | ||
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eVisa / Visa on arrival[238] | 3 months |
Territory | Conditions of access | Notes |
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Visa free for Schengen/EU/USA Visa and resident permit holder[240] |
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Visa not required[243] | |
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Visa required[244] | Travellers with Artsakh visa (expired or valid) or evidence of travel to Artsakh (stamps) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan.[245] |
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Visa not required[246] | Arrival by sea to Gaza Strip not allowed.[247] |
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Undefined visa regime in the Western Sahara controlled territory. | |
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Visa on arrival | 30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival.[248][249] |
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Visa not required[250] | Multiple entry visa to Russia and three day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.[251][252] |
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Visa not required[255] | Registration required after 24h.[256][257] |
Territory | Conditions of access | Notes |
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China | ||
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Visa not required[258] | 90 days |
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Visa not required[259] | 90 days |
Denmark | ||
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Visa required[260] | |
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Visa required[261] | |
France | ||
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Visa required[262] | |
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Visa required | Includes overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique and overseas collectivities of Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin. |
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Visa required[264] | |
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Visa required[265] | |
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Visa required[268] | |
Netherlands | ||
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Visa required[269] | |
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Visa required[270] | Includes Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. |
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Visa required[272] | |
New Zealand | ||
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Visa not required[273] | 31 days |
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Visa not required[274] | 30 days |
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Visa required[275] | |
United Kingdom | ||
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Visa required[276] | |
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Visa required[277] | Holders of a valid visa issued by the United Kingdom do not require a visa.[278] |
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Visa required[279] | |
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Special permit required | Special permit required.[280] |
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Visa not required | 14 days visa-free and landing fee US$35 or tax of US$5 if not going ashore.[286][287][288] |
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Admission refused[289][290] | From May 2015, the Ascension Island Government does not issue entry visas including eVisas to nationals of Egypt.[291] |
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Permission required | Permission to land required for 15/30 pounds sterling (yacht/ship passenger) for Tristan da Cunha Island or 20 pounds sterling for Gough Island, Inaccessible Island or Nightingale Islands.[294] |
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Permit required | Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).[295][296] |
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Visa required[297] | Holders of a valid visa issued by Canada, United Kingdom or the USA do not required a visa for a maximum stay of 90 days. |
United States | ||
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Antarctica and adjacent islands | ||
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This section is transcluded from Non-visa travel restrictions. (edit | history) |
Many countries have entry restrictions on foreigners that go beyond the common requirement of having either a valid visa or a visa exemption. Such restrictions may be health related or impose additional documentation requirements on certain classes of people for diplomatic or political purposes.
Many countries require a minimum number of blank pages to be available in the passport being presented, typically one or two pages.[315] Endorsement pages, which often appear after the visa pages, are not counted as being valid or available.
Main articles: Vaccination requirements for international travel, International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, and Vaccine passports during the COVID-19 pandemic |
Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, South Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia, require all incoming passengers older than nine months to one year[316] to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, as does the South American territory of French Guiana.[317]
Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area or has visited one recently or has transited for 12 hours in those countries: Algeria, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Lesotho, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[318][319]
An increasing number of countries have been imposing additional COVID-19 related health restrictions such as quarantine measures and testing requirements. Many countries increasingly consider the vaccination status of travellers with regard to quarantine requirements or when deciding to allow them entry at all.[320]
Very few countries, such as Paraguay, just require a passport valid on arrival.
However many countries and groupings now require only an identity card - especially from their neighbours. Other countries may have special bilateral arrangements that depart from the generality of their passport validity length policies to shorten the period of passport validity required for each other's citizens[321][322] or even accept passports that have already expired (but not been cancelled).[323]
Some countries, such as Japan,[324] Ireland and the United Kingdom,[325] require a passport valid throughout the period of the intended stay.
In the absence of specific bilateral agreements, countries requiring passports to be valid for at least 6 more months on arrival include Afghanistan, Algeria, Anguilla, Bahrain,[326] Bhutan, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel,[327] Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Peru.[328] Philippines,[329] Qatar, Rwanda, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Vietnam.[330]
Countries requiring passports valid for at least 4 months on arrival include Micronesia and Zambia.
Countries requiring passports with a validity of at least 3 months beyond the date of intended departure include Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Nauru, Moldova and New Zealand. Similarly, the EEA countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, all European Union countries (except the Republic of Ireland) together with Switzerland also require 3 months validity beyond the date of the bearer's intended departure unless the bearer is an EEA or Swiss national.
Countries requiring passports valid for at least 3 months on arrival include Albania, Honduras, North Macedonia, Panama, and Senegal.
Bermuda requires passports to be valid for at least 45 days upon entry.
Countries that require a passport validity of at least one month beyond the date of intended departure include Eritrea, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Macau, the Maldives[331] and South Africa.
Some countries, including Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand and the United States,[332] routinely deny entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record while others impose restrictions depending on the type of conviction and the length of the sentence.
The government of a country can declare a diplomat persona non grata, banning entry into that country. In non-diplomatic use, the authorities of a country may also declare a foreigner persona non grata permanently or temporarily, usually because of unlawful activity.[333]
For example, Azerbaijan bans visits by foreign citizens that have previously entered Azerbaijan through non-Azerbaijani controlled borders. This includes the illegal entry into the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh[334] (the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh), its surrounding Armenian-occupied territories, and the Azerbaijani exclaves of Karki, Yuxarı Əskipara, Barxudarlı, and Sofulu which are de jure part of Azerbaijan but under the control of Armenia. Foreign citizens who enter these territories will be permanently banned from entering the Republic of Azerbaijan[335] and will be included in their "list of personae non gratae".[336] As of 2 September 2019,[update] the list mentioned 852 people.
Kuwait,[337] Lebanon,[338] Libya,[339] Syria,[340] and Yemen[341] do not allow entry to people with passport stamps from Israel or whose passports have either a used or an unused Israeli visa, or where there is evidence of previous travel to Israel such as entry or exit stamps from neighbouring border posts in transit countries such as Jordan and Egypt.
To circumvent this Arab League boycott of Israel, the Israeli immigration services have now mostly ceased to stamp foreign nationals' passports on either entry to or exit from Israel (unless the entry is for some work-related purposes). Since 15 January 2013, Israel no longer stamps foreign passports at Ben Gurion Airport. Passports are still (as of 22 June 2017[update]) stamped at Erez when passing into and out of Gaza.[citation needed]
Iran refuses admission to holders of passports containing an Israeli visa or stamp that is less than 12 months old.
See also: Countries applying biometrics |
Several countries mandate that all travellers, or all foreign travellers, be fingerprinted on arrival and will refuse admission to or even arrest travellers who refuse to comply. In some countries, such as the United States, this may apply even to transit passengers who merely wish to quickly change planes rather than go landside.[342]
Fingerprinting countries include Afghanistan,[343][344] Argentina,[345] Brunei, Cambodia,[346] China,[347] Ethiopia,[348] Ghana, Guinea,[349] India, Japan,[350][351] Kenya (both fingerprints and a photo are taken),[352] Malaysia upon entry and departure,[353] Mongolia, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia,[354] Singapore, South Korea,[355] Taiwan, Thailand,[356] Uganda,[357] the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
Many countries also require a photo be taken of people entering the country. The United States, which does not fully implement exit control formalities at its land frontiers (although long mandated by domestic legislation),[358][359][360] intends to implement facial recognition for passengers departing from international airports to identify people who overstay their visa.[361]
Together with fingerprint and face recognition, iris scanning is one of three biometric identification technologies internationally standardised since 2006 by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for use in e-passports[362] and the United Arab Emirates conducts iris scanning on visitors who need to apply for a visa.[363][364]