Visa requirements for Montenegrin citizens

Montenegrin 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, Montenegro and 77 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).

24 countries ask holders of the Montenegrin passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Montenegro without one: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Brunei and 19 others.

The reverse holds for 40 countries: holders of the Montenegrin passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Montenegro (Armenia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde and 35 others).

39 countries ask holders of the Montenegrin passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 2 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Montenegro.

37 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Montenegro, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Montenegro, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Italy (13), Serbia (6), Belgium (3) and Bulgaria (3).

The United States refused 33% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Montenegro in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 104 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 92 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Montenegrin passport

By continent, the Montenegrin passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 17 countries in the Americas, 14 countries in Asia, 5 countries in Africa and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Montenegrin citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Armenia (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Andorra (90 days), the United Arab Emirates (90 days) and Albania (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Montenegrin citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 26 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Montenegrin citizens enter Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia and 35 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Korea and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Montenegro’s neighbours

Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo admit Montenegrin citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Croatian passport ranks 19th (160 destinations), the Serbian passport ranks 71st (121 destinations), the Bosnian passport ranks 87th (111 destinations), the Albanian passport ranks 92nd (107 destinations) and the Kosovar passport ranks 109th (81 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 101 can enter visa-free and 97 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Montenegro.