Visa requirements for Libyan citizens

Libyan 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, Libya and 2 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 Libyan passport for a visa beforehand while its own citizens enter Libya without one.

The reverse holds for 38 countries: holders of the Libyan passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Libya (Belarus, Benin, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde and 33 others).

105 countries ask holders of the Libyan passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 42 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Libya.

63 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Libya, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Libya, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Italy (24), Spain (2), Malta (2) and Greece (2).

The United States refused 32% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Libya in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 98 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 98 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Libya refused 16% 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 42nd highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Libyan passport

By continent, the Libyan passport is visa-free in 7 countries in Africa, 3 countries in the Americas, 2 countries in Asia, 1 country in Europe and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Libyan citizens are allowed in Benin (90 days), Belarus (90 days), Algeria (90 days), the Gambia (90 days), Haiti (90 days) and Mauritania (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Libyan citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and 17 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

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

Where Libyan citizens are not admitted

According to the visa data used here, Libyan citizens are currently not admitted to the United States.

Libya’s neighbours

Algeria and Tunisia admit Libyan citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Chad (e-Visa), Niger (visa required), Sudan (visa required) and Egypt (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Tunisian passport ranks 130th (66 destinations), the Algerian passport ranks 153rd (55 destinations), the Nigerien passport ranks 156th (54 destinations), the Chadian passport ranks 162nd (51 destinations) and the Egyptian passport ranks 168th (49 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 2 can enter visa-free, 188 need an e-Visa, 1 need a visa from an embassy or consulate and 7 are not admitted for Libya.