Visa requirements for citizens of the Dominican Republic

Citizens of the Dominican Republic 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, the Dominican Republic and 33 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 the Dominican Republic for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter the Dominican Republic without one: Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia and 70 others.

The reverse holds for 34 countries: holders of the passport of the Dominican Republic get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for the Dominican Republic (Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia and 29 others).

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

65 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in the Dominican Republic, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for the Dominican Republic, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Cuba (8), Colombia (2), Jamaica (2) and Venezuela (2).

The United States refused 36% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of the Dominican Republic in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 109 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 87 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in the Dominican Republic refused 27% 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 28th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the passport of the Dominican Republic

By continent, the passport of the Dominican Republic is visa-free in 11 countries in Asia, 11 countries in the Americas, 5 countries in Africa, 2 countries in Oceania and 1 country in Europe. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of the Dominican Republic are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Jamaica (180 days), El Salvador (180 days), Botswana (90 days), Colombia (90 days) and Ecuador (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of the Dominican Republic can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 27 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of the Dominican Republic enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan and 39 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya and South Korea ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

The Dominican Republic’s neighbours

For the neighbouring countries, the rules are: Haiti (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Haitian passport ranks 176th (46 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 108 can enter visa-free and 90 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for the Dominican Republic.