Visa requirements for Liberian citizens

Liberian 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, Liberia and 14 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).

No country asks holders of the Liberian passport for a visa beforehand while its own citizens enter Liberia without one.

The reverse holds for 33 countries: holders of the Liberian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Liberia (Bangladesh, Barbados, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic and 28 others).

103 countries ask holders of the Liberian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 9 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Liberia.

94 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Liberia, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Liberia, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Ivory Coast (6), Ghana (6), Senegal (3) and Mali (3).

The United States refused 73% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Liberia in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 188 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 8 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Liberian passport

By continent, the Liberian passport is visa-free in 19 countries in Africa, 5 countries in the Americas, 2 countries in Asia and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Liberian citizens are allowed in Barbados (90 days), Benin (90 days), the Central African Republic (90 days), Ivory Coast (90 days), Ecuador (90 days) and Ghana (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Liberian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Iran and 13 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Liberian citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia and 41 others. Suriname asks instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Liberia’s neighbours

Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Guinea admit Liberian citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Sierra Leonean passport ranks 141st (60 destinations), the Ivorian passport ranks 156th (54 destinations) and the Guinean passport ranks 156th (54 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 14 can enter visa-free, 167 need an e-Visa and 17 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Liberia.