Visa requirements for Pakistani citizens

Pakistani 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, Pakistan and 4 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).

5 countries ask holders of the Pakistani passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Pakistan without one: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

The reverse holds for 25 countries: holders of the Pakistani passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Pakistan (Barbados, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Comoros and 20 others).

110 countries ask holders of the Pakistani passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 42 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Pakistan.

68 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Pakistan, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Pakistan, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in India (16), Turkmenistan (2), the United Arab Emirates (2) and Tajikistan (2).

The United States refused 52% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Pakistan in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 144 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 52 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Pakistan refused 46% 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 7th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Pakistani passport

By continent, the Pakistani passport is visa-free in 5 countries in the Americas, 3 countries in Africa and 2 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Pakistani citizens are allowed in Dominica (180 days), Vanuatu (120 days), Barbados (90 days), the Gambia (90 days), Haiti (90 days) and the Seychelles (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Pakistani citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar and 11 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Pakistani citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Azerbaijan, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin and 51 others. Ivory Coast and Kenya ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Where Pakistani citizens are not admitted

According to the visa data used here, Pakistani citizens are currently not admitted to Libya.

Pakistan’s neighbours

For the neighbouring countries, the rules are: China (visa required), Afghanistan (visa required), Iran (visa required) and India (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Chinese passport ranks 113th (78 destinations), the Indian passport ranks 150th (56 destinations), the Iranian passport ranks 186th (40 destinations) and the Afghan passport ranks 199th (23 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 9 can enter visa-free, 183 need an e-Visa, 5 need a visa from an embassy or consulate and 1 is not admitted for Pakistan.