Visa requirements for Bahamian citizens

Bahamian 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, the Bahamas and 106 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).

16 countries ask holders of the Bahamian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter the Bahamas without one: Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bolivia and 11 others.

The reverse holds for 33 countries: holders of the Bahamian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for the Bahamas (Albania, Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cambodia and 28 others).

25 countries ask holders of the Bahamian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 1 of them has an embassy or consulate on record in the Bahamas.

24 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in the Bahamas, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for the Bahamas, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in the United States (15) and Cuba (7).

The United States refused 14% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of the Bahamas in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 48 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 148 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Bahamian passport

By continent, the Bahamian passport is visa-free in 42 countries in Europe, 27 countries in the Americas, 17 countries in Africa, 11 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Bahamian citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Mexico (180 days) and Peru (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Bahamian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 25 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Bahamian citizens enter Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and 27 others. Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, 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, 122 can enter visa-free and 76 need an e-Visa for the Bahamas.