Visa requirements for Jordanian citizens

Jordanian 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, Jordan and 34 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).

110 countries ask holders of the Jordanian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Jordan without one: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina and 105 others.

The reverse holds for 15 countries: holders of the Jordanian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Jordan (Burundi, Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia and 10 others).

97 countries ask holders of the Jordanian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 29 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Jordan.

68 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Jordan, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Jordan, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Israel (13), Turkey (11), Syria (5) and Lebanon (2).

The United States refused 57% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Jordan in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 156 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 40 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Jordan refused 21% 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 33rd highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Jordanian passport

By continent, the Jordanian passport is visa-free in 9 countries in Asia, 4 countries in Africa, 4 countries in the Americas, 2 countries in Europe and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Jordanian citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Lebanon (180 days), Barbados (90 days), Ecuador (90 days), Egypt (90 days) and Haiti (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Jordanian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia and 19 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Jordanian citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Azerbaijan, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin and 45 others. Ivory Coast, Kenya, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Jordan’s neighbours

Syria admits Jordanian citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Saudi Arabia (e-Visa), Iraq (e-Visa), Israel (e-Visa) and Palestine (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Israeli passport ranks 50th (141 destinations), the Saudi passport ranks 99th (87 destinations), the Palestinian passport ranks 192nd (36 destinations), the Iraqi passport ranks 196th (30 destinations) and the Syrian passport ranks 198th (26 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 11 can enter visa-free, 133 get a visa on arrival and 54 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Jordan.