Visa requirements for Filipino citizens

Filipino 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, the Philippines and 58 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).

103 countries ask holders of the Filipino passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter the Philippines without one: Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia and 98 others.

The reverse holds for 4 countries: holders of the Filipino passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for the Philippines (Iran, Palestine, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste).

87 countries ask holders of the Filipino passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 33 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in the Philippines.

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

The United States refused 31% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of the Philippines in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 96 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 100 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in the Philippines refused 6.9% 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 58th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Filipino passport

By continent, the Filipino passport is visa-free in 16 countries in Asia, 10 countries in the Americas, 4 countries in Africa and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Filipino citizens are allowed in Peru (180 days), Fiji (120 days), Vanuatu (120 days), Barbados (90 days), Bolivia (90 days) and Brazil (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Filipino citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Iran and 19 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Filipino citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Benin and 41 others. Israel, Kenya and Papua New Guinea ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Where Filipino citizens are not admitted

According to the visa data used here, Filipino citizens are currently not admitted to Kuwait.

How the passport compares

Of the 198 passports in the data, 161 can enter visa-free and 37 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for the Philippines.