Visa requirements for Afghan citizens

Afghan citizens need a Schengen visa, which covers all member states for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Afghanistan and 0 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

No country asks holders of the Afghan passport for a visa beforehand while its own citizens enter Afghanistan without one.

The reverse holds for 22 countries: holders of the Afghan passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Afghanistan (Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti and 17 others).

117 countries ask holders of the Afghan passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 10 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Afghanistan.

107 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Afghanistan, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Afghanistan, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Pakistan (20), India (16), Iran (4) and the United Arab Emirates (3).

The United States refused 63% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Afghanistan in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 168 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 28 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Afghan passport

By continent, the Afghan passport is visa-free in 2 countries in the Americas, 1 country in Africa and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Afghan citizens are allowed in Haiti (90 days), the Seychelles (90 days), Micronesia (30 days) and Dominica (21 days).

Visa on arrival

Afghan citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Macau and 10 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Afghan citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan and 51 others. Ivory Coast and Kenya ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Where Afghan citizens are not admitted

According to the visa data used here, Afghan citizens are currently not admitted to the United States.

Afghanistan’s neighbours

For the neighbouring countries, the rules are: Turkmenistan (visa required), China (visa required), Iran (visa required), Tajikistan (visa required), Pakistan (e-Visa) and Uzbekistan (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Chinese passport ranks 113th (78 destinations), the Uzbek passport ranks 140th (61 destinations), the Tajik passport ranks 150th (56 destinations), the Turkmen passport ranks 173rd (47 destinations) and the Iranian passport ranks 186th (40 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 198 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Afghanistan.