Visa requirements for citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis 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, Saint Kitts and Nevis and 99 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).

22 countries ask holders of the passport of Saint Kitts and Nevis for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Saint Kitts and Nevis without one: Australia, Bahrain, Bolivia, Brunei, Canada and 17 others.

The reverse holds for 37 countries: holders of the passport of Saint Kitts and Nevis get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Saint Kitts and Nevis (Albania, Andorra, Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi and 32 others).

28 countries ask holders of the passport of Saint Kitts and Nevis for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 0 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

28 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Saint Kitts and Nevis, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Saint Kitts and Nevis, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Barbados (2), Puerto Rico (2) and the Dominican Republic (2).

The United States refused 35% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 107 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 89 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of Saint Kitts and Nevis

By continent, the passport of Saint Kitts and Nevis is visa-free in 45 countries in Europe, 29 countries in the Americas, 14 countries in Africa, 11 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis are allowed in Barbados (180 days), Peru (180 days), Suriname (180 days), El Salvador (180 days), Fiji (120 days) and Vanuatu (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau and 22 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis enter Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso and 27 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Papua New Guinea, South Korea 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, 5 can enter visa-free, 116 need an ETA and 77 need an e-Visa for Saint Kitts and Nevis.