Visa requirements for citizens of San Marino

Citizens of San Marino 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, San Marino and 86 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).

7 countries ask holders of the passport of San Marino for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter San Marino without one: Brunei, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis and 2 others.

The reverse holds for 58 countries: holders of the passport of San Marino get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for San Marino (Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize and 53 others).

22 countries ask holders of the passport of San Marino 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 San Marino.

22 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in San Marino, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for San Marino, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Italy (13), France (2) and Belgium (2).

The United States refused 20% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of San Marino in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 65 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 131 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the passport of San Marino

By continent, the passport of San Marino is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 26 countries in the Americas, 19 countries in Asia, 13 countries in Africa and 2 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for citizens of San Marino are allowed in Georgia (360 days), the Bahamas (240 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Armenia (180 days), Barbados (180 days) and Costa Rica (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Citizens of San Marino can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 26 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how citizens of San Marino enter Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad and 25 others. Australia, Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Suriname and 2 others ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

San Marino’s neighbours

Italy admits citizens of San Marino without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Italian passport ranks 6th (161 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 93 can enter visa-free and 105 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for San Marino.