Visa requirements for Chadian citizens

Chadian 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, Chad and 12 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).

4 countries ask holders of the Chadian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Chad without one: Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Togo and United Arab Emirates.

The reverse holds for 38 countries: holders of the Chadian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Chad (Bangladesh, Barbados, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde and 33 others).

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

86 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Chad, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Chad, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Nigeria (14), Cameroon (3), Ghana (3) and Sudan (2).

The United States refused 62% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Chad in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 166 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 30 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Chadian passport

By continent, the Chadian passport is visa-free in 15 countries in Africa, 4 countries in Asia, 4 countries in the Americas and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Chadian citizens are allowed in Barbados (90 days), Benin (90 days), the Central African Republic (90 days), the Republic of the Congo (90 days), Ivory Coast (90 days) and Cameroon (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Chadian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia and 19 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Chadian citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia and 40 others. Suriname asks instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Where Chadian citizens are not admitted

According to the visa data used here, Chadian citizens are currently not admitted to the United States.

Chad’s neighbours

Niger, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Nigeria admit Chadian citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Libya (e-Visa) and Sudan (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Nigerien passport ranks 156th (54 destinations), the passport of the Central African Republic ranks 168th (49 destinations), the Cameroonian passport ranks 173rd (47 destinations), the Libyan passport ranks 184th (41 destinations) and the Nigerian passport ranks 184th (41 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 16 can enter visa-free and 182 need an e-Visa for Chad.