Visa requirements for citizens of Antigua and Barbuda

Citizens of Antigua and Barbuda 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, Antigua and Barbuda and 95 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).

18 countries ask holders of the passport of Antigua and Barbuda for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Antigua and Barbuda without one: Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brunei and 13 others.

The reverse holds for 37 countries: holders of the passport of Antigua and Barbuda get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Antigua and Barbuda (Angola, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cambodia and 32 others).

30 countries ask holders of the passport of Antigua and Barbuda for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 0 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Antigua and Barbuda.

30 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Antigua and Barbuda, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Antigua and Barbuda, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Jamaica (2), Barbados (2), Puerto Rico (2) and the Dominican Republic (2).

The United States refused 39% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Antigua and Barbuda in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 118 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 78 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Antigua and Barbuda

By continent, the passport of Antigua and Barbuda is visa-free in 45 countries in Europe, 27 countries in the Americas, 15 countries in Africa, 8 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Antigua and Barbuda are allowed in Georgia (360 days), the Bahamas (240 days), Guyana (180 days), Peru (180 days), Suriname (180 days) and El Salvador (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Antigua and Barbuda can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 22 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of Antigua and Barbuda enter Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and 29 others. Ivory Coast, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, South Korea and the United Kingdom ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

How the passport compares

Of the 198 passports in the data, 113 can enter visa-free and 85 need an e-Visa for Antigua and Barbuda.