Visa requirements for Samoan citizens

Samoan 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, Samoa and 115 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).

83 countries ask holders of the Samoan passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Samoa without one: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina and 78 others.

39 countries ask holders of the Samoan passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 2 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Samoa.

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

The United States refused 44% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Samoa in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 129 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 67 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Samoan passport

By continent, the Samoan passport is visa-free in 40 countries in Europe, 16 countries in the Americas, 12 countries in Africa, 10 countries in Asia and 4 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Samoan citizens are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Peru (180 days), Fiji (120 days) and Vanuatu (120 days).

Visa on arrival

Samoan citizens 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 Samoan citizens enter Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia and 37 others. Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Suriname 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, 29 can enter visa-free and 169 get a visa on arrival for Samoa.