Visa requirements for Mongolian citizens

Mongolian 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, Mongolia and 25 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).

42 countries ask holders of the Mongolian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Mongolia without one: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada and 37 others.

The reverse holds for 39 countries: holders of the Mongolian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Mongolia (Bangladesh, Barbados, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde and 34 others).

86 countries ask holders of the Mongolian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 12 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Mongolia.

74 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Mongolia, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Mongolia, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in China (23) and South Korea (5).

The United States refused 31% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Mongolia in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 97 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 99 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Mongolia refused 15% 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 44th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Mongolian passport

By continent, the Mongolian passport is visa-free in 17 countries in Asia, 13 countries in the Americas, 2 countries in Europe, 1 country in Africa and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Mongolian citizens are allowed in Argentina (90 days), Barbados (90 days), Brazil (90 days), Belarus (90 days), Chile (90 days) and Ecuador (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Mongolian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 20 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Mongolian citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, the Bahamas, Bahrain and 41 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Mongolia’s neighbours

China and Russia admit Mongolian citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Russian passport ranks 79th (115 destinations) and the Chinese passport ranks 113th (78 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 64 can enter visa-free, 3 get a visa on arrival, 95 need an e-Visa and 36 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Mongolia.