Visa requirements for Cameroonian citizens

Cameroonian citizens need a Schengen visa, which covers all member states for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Cameroon and 6 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 Cameroonian passport for a visa beforehand while its own citizens enter Cameroon without one.

The reverse holds for 40 countries: holders of the Cameroonian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Cameroon (Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Burundi, Cambodia and 35 others).

102 countries ask holders of the Cameroonian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 22 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Cameroon.

80 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Cameroon, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Cameroon, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Nigeria (10), Ghana (3), Benin (2) and Equatorial Guinea (2).

The United States refused 61% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Cameroon in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 163 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 33 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Cameroon refused 40% 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 11th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Cameroonian passport

By continent, the Cameroonian passport is visa-free in 12 countries in Africa, 4 countries in the Americas, 3 countries in Oceania and 2 countries in Asia. The longest visa-free stays for Cameroonian citizens are allowed in Dominica (180 days), Vanuatu (120 days), Barbados (90 days), Benin (90 days), the Central African Republic (90 days) and the Republic of the Congo (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Cameroonian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia and 18 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Cameroonian citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia and 43 others. Ivory Coast asks instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Cameroon’s neighbours

Chad, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo and Nigeria admit Cameroonian citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Gabonese passport ranks 146th (57 destinations), the passport of Equatorial Guinea ranks 153rd (55 destinations), the Chadian passport ranks 162nd (51 destinations), the passport of the Central African Republic ranks 168th (49 destinations) and the passport of the Republic of the Congo ranks 173rd (47 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 6 can enter visa-free and 192 need an e-Visa for Cameroon.