Visa requirements for Mauritian citizens

Mauritian citizens 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, Mauritius and 123 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).

59 countries ask holders of the Mauritian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Mauritius without one: Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan and 54 others.

The reverse holds for 4 countries: holders of the Mauritian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Mauritius (Kosovo, Laos, Palestine and Uganda).

35 countries ask holders of the Mauritian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 3 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Mauritius.

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

The United States refused 7.4% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Mauritius in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 16 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 180 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Mauritian passport

By continent, the Mauritian passport is visa-free in 41 countries in Europe, 21 countries in Africa, 16 countries in the Americas, 12 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Mauritian citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Fiji (120 days) and Vanuatu (120 days).

Visa on arrival

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

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Mauritian citizens enter Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and 29 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Korea, 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, 113 can enter visa-free, 69 get a visa on arrival and 16 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Mauritius.