Visa requirements for citizens of Guinea-Bissau

Citizens of Guinea-Bissau 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, Guinea-Bissau and 49 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).

149 countries ask holders of the passport of Guinea-Bissau for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Guinea-Bissau without one: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola and 144 others.

100 countries ask holders of the passport of Guinea-Bissau for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 11 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Guinea-Bissau.

89 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Guinea-Bissau, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Guinea-Bissau, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Senegal (12), Ghana (3), Guinea (2) and Spain (2).

The United States refused 75% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Guinea-Bissau in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 190 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 6 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Guinea-Bissau

By continent, the passport of Guinea-Bissau is visa-free in 19 countries in Africa, 4 countries in the Americas, 3 countries in Asia and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Guinea-Bissau are allowed in Barbados (90 days), Bangladesh (90 days), Benin (90 days), Ivory Coast (90 days), Ghana (90 days) and the Gambia (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Guinea-Bissau can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Iran, Macau and 15 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of Guinea-Bissau enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia and 42 others. Suriname asks instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Guinea-Bissau’s neighbours

Senegal and Guinea admit citizens of Guinea-Bissau without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Senegalese passport ranks 146th (57 destinations) and the Guinean passport ranks 156th (54 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 14 can enter visa-free and 184 get a visa on arrival for Guinea-Bissau.