Visa requirements for citizens of Equatorial Guinea

Citizens of Equatorial Guinea 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, Equatorial Guinea and 3 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 passport of Equatorial Guinea for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Equatorial Guinea without one: Turkey and United Arab Emirates.

The reverse holds for 51 countries: holders of the passport of Equatorial Guinea get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Equatorial Guinea (Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Burundi, Cambodia and 46 others).

96 countries ask holders of the passport of Equatorial Guinea for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 9 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Equatorial Guinea.

87 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Equatorial Guinea, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Equatorial Guinea, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Nigeria (7), Cameroon (5), Gabon (4) and Ghana (3).

The United States refused 69% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Equatorial Guinea in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 181 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 15 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Equatorial Guinea refused 32% 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 19th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Equatorial Guinea

By continent, the passport of Equatorial Guinea is visa-free in 14 countries in Africa, 5 countries in the Americas, 4 countries in Asia and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Equatorial Guinea are allowed in Barbados (90 days), Benin (90 days), the Central African Republic (90 days), the Republic of the Congo (90 days), Cameroon (90 days) and Ecuador (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Equatorial Guinea can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia and 22 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

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

Where citizens of Equatorial Guinea are not admitted

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

Equatorial Guinea’s neighbours

Gabon and Cameroon admit citizens of Equatorial Guinea without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Gabonese passport ranks 146th (57 destinations) and the Cameroonian passport ranks 173rd (47 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 5 can enter visa-free and 193 need an e-Visa for Equatorial Guinea.