Visa requirements for citizens of Kiribati

Citizens of Kiribati 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, Kiribati and 85 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).

38 countries ask holders of the passport of Kiribati for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Kiribati without one: Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei and 33 others.

The reverse holds for 27 countries: holders of the passport of Kiribati get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Kiribati (Andorra, Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cambodia and 22 others).

39 countries ask holders of the passport of Kiribati for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 2 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Kiribati.

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

The United States refused 4.5% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Kiribati in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 7 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 189 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Kiribati

By continent, the passport of Kiribati is visa-free in 39 countries in Europe, 16 countries in the Americas, 13 countries in Africa, 8 countries in Asia and 3 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Kiribati are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Peru (180 days), Fiji (120 days) and Vanuatu (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Kiribati can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 23 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of Kiribati enter Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia and 40 others. Ivory Coast, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname and the United Kingdom 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, 123 can enter visa-free and 75 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Kiribati.