Visa requirements for Senegalese citizens

Senegalese 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, Senegal and 46 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).

89 countries ask holders of the Senegalese passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Senegal without one: Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia and 84 others.

The reverse holds for 10 countries: holders of the Senegalese passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Senegal (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Dominica, Iran, Macau and 5 others).

93 countries ask holders of the Senegalese passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 29 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Senegal.

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

The United States refused 74% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Senegal in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 189 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 7 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Senegal refused 52% 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 3rd highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Senegalese passport

By continent, the Senegalese passport is visa-free in 23 countries in Africa, 4 countries in Asia, 4 countries in the Americas and 2 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Senegalese citizens are allowed in Fiji (120 days), Barbados (90 days), Benin (90 days), the Central African Republic (90 days), Ivory Coast (90 days) and Ghana (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Senegalese citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Iran and 15 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Senegalese citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia and 42 others. Morocco and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Senegal’s neighbours

Guinea, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, the Gambia and Mali admit Senegalese citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the passport of the Gambia ranks 130th (66 destinations), the Guinean passport ranks 156th (54 destinations), the Mauritanian passport ranks 159th (53 destinations), the Malian passport ranks 162nd (51 destinations) and the passport of Guinea-Bissau ranks 165th (50 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 60 can enter visa-free, 75 get a visa on arrival and 63 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Senegal.