Visa requirements for Chilean citizens

Chilean 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, Chile and 91 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).

2 countries ask holders of the Chilean passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Chile without one: Australia and Tonga.

The reverse holds for 57 countries: holders of the Chilean passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Chile (Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus and 52 others).

21 countries ask holders of the Chilean passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 3 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Chile.

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

The United States refused 16% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Chile in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 57 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 139 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Chilean passport

By continent, the Chilean passport is visa-free in 45 countries in Europe, 29 countries in the Americas, 19 countries in Asia, 8 countries in Africa and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Chilean citizens are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Mexico (180 days), Peru (180 days), El Salvador (180 days) and Fiji (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Chilean citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros and 27 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Chilean citizens enter Australia, Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad and 22 others. Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis and 3 others ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Chile’s neighbours

Peru, Bolivia and Argentina admit Chilean citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Argentine passport ranks 45th (149 destinations), the Peruvian passport ranks 59th (134 destinations) and the Bolivian passport ranks 118th (72 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 93 can enter visa-free and 105 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Chile.