Visa requirements for Romanian citizens

Romania belongs to the European free movement area, so Romanian citizens need no visa anywhere in the Schengen area and can use a national ID card.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Romania and 92 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).

1 country asks holders of the Romanian passport for a visa beforehand, although its own citizens enter Romania without one: United States.

The reverse holds for 66 countries: holders of the Romanian passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Romania (Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus and 61 others).

14 countries ask holders of the Romanian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 4 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Romania.

10 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Romania, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Romania, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Turkey (3) and Bulgaria (2).

The United States refused 8.4% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Romania in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 24 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 172 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Romanian passport

By continent, the Romanian passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 28 countries in the Americas, 22 countries in Asia, 16 countries in Africa and 11 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Romanian citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Armenia (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days) and Dominica (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Romanian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 22 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Romanian citizens enter Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cuba and 19 others. Australia, Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and 3 others ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Romania’s neighbours

Moldova, Hungary, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Serbia admit Romanian citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Hungarian passport ranks 19th (160 destinations), the Bulgarian passport ranks 28th (159 destinations), the Ukrainian passport ranks 61st (132 destinations), the Serbian passport ranks 71st (121 destinations) and the Moldovan passport ranks 90th (110 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 93 can enter visa-free and 105 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Romania.