Visa requirements for citizens of the Gambia

Citizens of the Gambia 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 Gambia and 54 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).

78 countries ask holders of the passport of the Gambia for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter the Gambia without one: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda and 73 others.

The reverse holds for 11 countries: holders of the passport of the Gambia get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for the Gambia (Cambodia, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Macau and 6 others).

91 countries ask holders of the passport of the Gambia for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 7 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in the Gambia.

84 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in the Gambia, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for the Gambia, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Senegal (18), Ghana (3) and Spain (2).

The United States refused 75% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of the Gambia in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 191 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 5 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of the Gambia

By continent, the passport of the Gambia is visa-free in 26 countries in Africa, 9 countries in the Americas, 4 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of the Gambia are allowed in Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Vanuatu (120 days), Bangladesh (90 days) and Benin (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of the Gambia can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Iran, Laos and 14 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of the Gambia enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cameroon and 35 others. Saint Kitts and Nevis and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

The Gambia’s neighbours

Senegal admits citizens of the Gambia without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Senegalese passport ranks 146th (57 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 131 can enter visa-free, 1 get a visa on arrival and 66 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for the Gambia.