Visa requirements for Mexican citizens

Mexican 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, Mexico and 60 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).

6 countries ask holders of the Mexican passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Mexico without one: Australia, Canada, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and United States.

The reverse holds for 76 countries: holders of the Mexican passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Mexico (Albania, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Bahrain and 71 others).

26 countries ask holders of the Mexican passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 5 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Mexico.

21 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Mexico, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Mexico, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Cuba (3).

The United States refused 21% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Mexico in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 72 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 124 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Mexican passport

By continent, the Mexican passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 28 countries in the Americas, 15 countries in Asia, 6 countries in Africa and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Mexican citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), the United Arab Emirates (180 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Dominica (180 days) and Peru (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Mexican citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Bahrain, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 25 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Mexican citizens enter Australia, Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad and 29 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Korea and 2 others ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Mexico’s neighbours

Guatemala and Belize admit Mexican citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: the United States (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the US passport ranks 41st (154 destinations), the Guatemalan passport ranks 79th (115 destinations) and the Belizean passport ranks 98th (88 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 63 can enter visa-free, 3 need an ETA and 132 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Mexico.