Visa requirements for Papua New Guinean citizens

Papua New Guinean 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, Papua New Guinea and 40 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).

55 countries ask holders of the Papua New Guinean passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Papua New Guinea without one: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados and 50 others.

The reverse holds for 32 countries: holders of the Papua New Guinean passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Papua New Guinea (Angola, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde and 27 others).

81 countries ask holders of the Papua New Guinean passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 5 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Papua New Guinea.

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

The United States refused 11% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Papua New Guinea in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 33 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 163 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Papua New Guinean passport

By continent, the Papua New Guinean passport is visa-free in 13 countries in the Americas, 12 countries in Africa, 7 countries in Asia, 4 countries in Oceania and 1 country in Europe. The longest visa-free stays for Papua New Guinean citizens are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Peru (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Vanuatu (120 days) and Bangladesh (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Papua New Guinean citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau and 23 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Papua New Guinean citizens enter Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia and 38 others. Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname and the United Kingdom ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Papua New Guinea’s neighbours

For the neighbouring countries, the rules are: Indonesia (visa on arrival for up to 30 days).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Indonesian passport ranks 113th (78 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 14 get a visa on arrival, 81 need an ETA, 102 need an e-Visa and 1 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Papua New Guinea.