Visa requirements for Lebanese citizens

Lebanese 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, Lebanon and 17 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).

86 countries ask holders of the Lebanese passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Lebanon without one: Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia and 81 others.

The reverse holds for 26 countries: holders of the Lebanese passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Lebanon (Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Dominica, Ecuador and 21 others).

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

65 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Lebanon, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Lebanon, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Israel (13), Turkey (10), Syria (9) and Egypt (2).

The United States refused 39% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Lebanon in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 121 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 75 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Lebanon refused 17% 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 39th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Lebanese passport

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

Visa on arrival

Lebanese citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia and 18 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Lebanese citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan and 44 others. Ivory Coast, Kenya and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Lebanon’s neighbours

Syria admits Lebanese citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Israel (e-Visa).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Israeli passport ranks 50th (141 destinations) and the Syrian passport ranks 198th (26 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 7 can enter visa-free, 96 get a visa on arrival, 94 need a visa from an embassy or consulate and 1 is not admitted for Lebanon.