Visa requirements for Haitian citizens

Haitian 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, Haiti and 44 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 Haitian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Haiti without one: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda and 144 others.

The reverse holds for 1 country: holders of the Haitian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but its citizens need one for Haiti (Palestine).

99 countries ask holders of the Haitian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 15 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Haiti.

84 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Haiti, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Haiti, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in the Dominican Republic (12), Cuba (6), Jamaica (4) and Venezuela (4).

The United States refused 50% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Haiti in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 139 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 57 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Haitian passport

By continent, the Haitian passport is visa-free in 6 countries in Asia, 4 countries in Africa, 2 countries in Oceania and 1 country in the Americas. The longest visa-free stays for Haitian citizens are allowed in Benin (90 days), Grenada (90 days), Kiribati (90 days), Rwanda (90 days), the Seychelles (90 days) and Taiwan (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Haitian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 22 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Haitian citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan and 45 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya and South Korea ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Where Haitian citizens are not admitted

According to the visa data used here, Haitian citizens are currently not admitted to Suriname and the United States.

Haiti’s neighbours

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

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the passport of the Dominican Republic ranks 125th (68 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 193 can enter visa-free and 5 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Haiti.