Visa requirements for citizens of Hong Kong

Citizens of Hong Kong can enter all 29 Schengen states without a visa, for up to 90 days in any 180-day period across the whole area.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Hong Kong and 131 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).

16 countries ask holders of the passport of Hong Kong for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Hong Kong without one: Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Chad, Costa Rica and 11 others.

The reverse holds for 22 countries: holders of the passport of Hong Kong get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Hong Kong (Angola, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Cambodia, China and 17 others).

21 countries ask holders of the passport of Hong Kong for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 4 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Hong Kong.

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

The United States refused 7.7% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Hong Kong in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 18 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 178 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Hong Kong refused 2.8% 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 73rd highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Hong Kong

By continent, the passport of Hong Kong is visa-free in 45 countries in Europe, 26 countries in the Americas, 22 countries in Asia, 19 countries in Africa and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Hong Kong are allowed in Armenia (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Mexico (180 days), Peru (180 days), Zimbabwe (180 days) and Fiji (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Hong Kong can get a visa at the airport or land border of Angola, Bahrain, Burundi, Cambodia, 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 Hong Kong enter Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cuba, DR Congo and 17 others. Australia, Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and 2 others ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

How the passport compares

Of the 198 passports in the data, 147 can enter visa-free, 49 need an e-Visa, 1 need a visa from an embassy or consulate and 1 is not admitted for Hong Kong.