Visa requirements for Paraguayan citizens

Paraguayan 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, Paraguay and 67 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).

4 countries ask holders of the Paraguayan passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Paraguay without one: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and United States.

The reverse holds for 60 countries: holders of the Paraguayan passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Paraguay (Albania, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina and 55 others).

31 countries ask holders of the Paraguayan passport 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 Paraguay.

30 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Paraguay, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Paraguay, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Argentina (7) and Brazil (6).

The United States refused 19% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Paraguay in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 63 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 133 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Paraguayan passport

By continent, the Paraguayan passport is visa-free in 44 countries in Europe, 24 countries in the Americas, 11 countries in Asia, 4 countries in Africa and 3 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Paraguayan citizens are allowed in Costa Rica (180 days), Mexico (180 days), Peru (180 days), El Salvador (180 days), Fiji (120 days) and Andorra (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Paraguayan citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 28 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Paraguayan citizens enter Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan and 33 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Korea, Suriname and the United Kingdom ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Paraguay’s neighbours

Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina admit Paraguayan citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Brazilian passport ranks 44th (150 destinations), the Argentine passport ranks 45th (149 destinations) and the Bolivian passport ranks 118th (72 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 69 can enter visa-free, 2 get a visa on arrival and 127 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Paraguay.