Visa requirements for citizens of Palau

Citizens of Palau 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, Palau and 104 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).

92 countries ask holders of the passport of Palau for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Palau without one: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina and 87 others.

The reverse holds for 1 country: holders of the passport of Palau get in without a visa obtained in advance, but its citizens need one for Palau (Bangladesh).

42 countries ask holders of the passport of Palau 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 Palau.

41 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Palau, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Palau, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in the Philippines (11).

The United States refused 80% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Palau in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 193 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 3 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Palau

By continent, the passport of Palau is visa-free in 40 countries in Europe, 13 countries in the Americas, 7 countries in Asia, 5 countries in Oceania and 3 countries in Africa. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Palau are allowed in Micronesia (360 days), Mexico (180 days), Peru (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Vanuatu (120 days) and Andorra (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Palau 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 citizens of Palau enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin and 44 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Suriname and the United Kingdom 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, 33 can enter visa-free, 163 get a visa on arrival and 2 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Palau.