Visa requirements for citizens of Dominica

Citizens of Dominica 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, Dominica and 121 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).

75 countries ask holders of the passport of Dominica for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Dominica without one: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Australia and 70 others.

The reverse holds for 2 countries: holders of the passport of Dominica get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Dominica (Dominican Republic and Haiti).

35 countries ask holders of the passport of Dominica for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 0 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Dominica.

35 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Dominica, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Dominica, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Barbados (4), Trinidad and Tobago (3), Venezuela (3) and Jamaica (3).

The United States refused 43% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Dominica in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 126 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 70 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Dominica

By continent, the passport of Dominica is visa-free in 42 countries in Europe, 24 countries in the Americas, 14 countries in Africa, 10 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Dominica are allowed in Guyana (180 days), Peru (180 days), Suriname (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Vanuatu (120 days) and Andorra (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Dominica can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 19 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of Dominica enter Albania, Australia, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and 33 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Papua New Guinea and South Korea 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, 196 can enter visa-free and 2 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Dominica.