Visa requirements for Barbadian citizens

Barbadian 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, Barbados and 132 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).

47 countries ask holders of the Barbadian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Barbados without one: Algeria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Benin and 42 others.

The reverse holds for 9 countries: holders of the Barbadian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Barbados (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Holy See, Iran and 4 others).

20 countries ask holders of the Barbadian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 2 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Barbados.

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

Visa-free travel with the Barbadian passport

By continent, the Barbadian passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 29 countries in the Americas, 18 countries in Africa, 11 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Barbadian citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Guyana (180 days) and Mexico (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Barbadian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 23 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Barbadian citizens enter Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso and 30 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, 179 can enter visa-free and 19 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Barbados.