Visa requirements for Australian citizens

Australian 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, Australia and 46 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 Australian passport for a visa beforehand while its own citizens enter Australia without one.

The reverse holds for 111 countries: holders of the Australian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Australia (Albania, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia and 106 others).

14 countries ask holders of the Australian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 5 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Australia.

9 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Australia, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country.

The United States refused 23% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Australia in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 78 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 118 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Australia refused 3% of short-stay visa applications in 2025 (all Schengen consulates worldwide: 15%). Among the 74 countries where they received at least 10,000 applications, that is the 72nd highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Australian passport

By continent, the Australian passport is visa-free in 44 countries in Europe, 28 countries in the Americas, 19 countries in Asia, 13 countries in Africa and 5 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Australian citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Armenia (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days) and Dominica (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Australian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros and 33 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Australian citizens enter Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad and 20 others. Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname and 2 others 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, 1 can enter visa-free, 45 need an ETA, 151 need an e-Visa and 1 is not admitted for Australia.