Visa requirements for Guinean citizens

Guinean citizens 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 and 20 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 Guinean passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Guinea without one: Algeria and United Arab Emirates.

The reverse holds for 33 countries: holders of the Guinean passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Guinea (Bangladesh, Barbados, Burundi, Cambodia, Comoros and 28 others).

96 countries ask holders of the Guinean passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 14 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Guinea.

82 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Guinea, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Guinea, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Senegal (7), Ghana (3), Sierra Leone (3) and Ivory Coast (2).

The United States refused 67% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Guinea in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 177 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 19 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Guinea refused 52% 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 2nd highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Guinean passport

By continent, the Guinean passport is visa-free in 18 countries in Africa, 5 countries in Asia, 4 countries in the Americas and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Guinean citizens 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

Guinean citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and 17 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

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

Guinea’s neighbours

Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau and Mali admit Guinean citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Sierra Leonean passport ranks 141st (60 destinations), the Senegalese passport ranks 146th (57 destinations), the Ivorian passport ranks 156th (54 destinations), the Malian passport ranks 162nd (51 destinations) and the passport of Guinea-Bissau ranks 165th (50 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 21 can enter visa-free, 1 get a visa on arrival and 176 need an e-Visa for Guinea.