Visa requirements for citizens of Nauru

Citizens of Nauru 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, Nauru and 15 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).

1 country asks holders of the passport of Nauru for a visa beforehand, although its own citizens enter Nauru without one: Spain.

The reverse holds for 58 countries: holders of the passport of Nauru get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Nauru (Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados and 53 others).

80 countries ask holders of the passport of Nauru for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 1 of them has an embassy or consulate on record in Nauru.

79 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Nauru, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Nauru, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Australia (6) and the Marshall Islands (2).

The United States refused 24% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Nauru in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 81 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 115 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Nauru

By continent, the passport of Nauru is visa-free in 15 countries in the Americas, 13 countries in Africa, 7 countries in Asia, 4 countries in Oceania and 3 countries in Europe. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Nauru are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Peru (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Vanuatu (120 days) and the United Arab Emirates (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Nauru can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 21 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of Nauru enter Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia and 38 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Suriname 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, 3 can enter visa-free, 13 get a visa on arrival and 182 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Nauru.