Visa requirements for Albanian citizens

Albanian citizens can enter all 29 Schengen states without a visa, for up to 90 days in any 180-day period across the whole area.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Albania and 68 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).

24 countries ask holders of the Albanian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Albania without one: Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Brunei, Canada and 19 others.

The reverse holds for 38 countries: holders of the Albanian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Albania (Bangladesh, Belarus, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde and 33 others).

49 countries ask holders of the Albanian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 7 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Albania.

42 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Albania, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Albania, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Italy (11), Greece (5), Serbia (5) and Belgium (5).

The United States refused 37% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Albania in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 112 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 84 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Albanian passport

By continent, the Albanian passport is visa-free in 42 countries in Europe, 15 countries in Asia, 12 countries in the Americas, 4 countries in Africa and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Albanian citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), the United Arab Emirates (180 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Armenia (180 days), El Salvador (180 days) and Andorra (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Albanian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 21 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Albanian citizens enter Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana and 36 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Korea and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Albania’s neighbours

North Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo admit Albanian citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Greek passport ranks 19th (160 destinations), the Serbian passport ranks 71st (121 destinations), the North Macedonian passport ranks 74th (118 destinations), the Montenegrin passport ranks 74th (118 destinations) and the Kosovar passport ranks 109th (81 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 92 can enter visa-free and 106 need an e-Visa for Albania.